UNT professor Tao Zhang has been elected as a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology and Kent Chapman, Regents professor of biochemistry, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Zhang, director of the Pediatric Movement and Physical Activity Laboratory at UNT, has secured about 20 funded research grant projects from federal agencies and research foundations.

"It is the highest academic honor in my field of kinesiology and health promotion," Zhang says. "I'm so glad to represent UNT at this national level."

Chapman has spent his entire professional academic career at UNT, building an internationally recognized research program in plant biochemistry and cell biology over the last three decades. "It's a crowning achievement for me for a life dedicated to science," he says.