Chemistry associate professor Guido Verbeck and a group of student researchers took a 40-pound mobile mass spectrometer to UNT's sub-Antarctic field station in Chile in December to collect air and water samples throughout the region.

Guido Verbeck, associate professor of chemistry, has partnered with Denton County to create the county's first forensic drug lab. Housed on the UNT campus, the lab is staffed with graduate students certified to handle, test and analyze drug samples.

In 1910, Wallace Newton Masters established UNT’s chemistry department, a program he developed and served as director for 30 years. A century later, his granddaughter, Catherine Dawson, was among those on campus to greet nearly 200 alumni and friends of the department for the Chemistry Centennial Celebration.

Students in UNT's Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, were named regional finalists in the 2015 Siemens Competition.