The Federation of North Texas Area Universities is a consortium of three institutions in the North Texas area:

1. Texas Woman’s University
2. Texas A&M University—Commerce
3. University of North Texas

The primary purpose of the Federation is to engage in institutional collaborations for excellence in selected graduate degree programs and fields of study, to facilitate graduate students’ professional development and research opportunities, and to coordinate administrative services for the benefit of graduate students at the three institutions. The Federation has operated since 1968 when it was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

The 2019 symposium was held on April 5, 2019 in Denton at the University of North Texas at University Union.  

A&M-Commerce winners were:

                     

• 3rd Place - $100  Priya Biswas Time and Dose Optimization of Cardiac Inducing RNA (CIR) on Conferring Cardiogenesis in Human Dermal Fibroblasts in vitro STEM - Biological & Environment Sciences
   

                      

• 3rd Place - $100 Doretha Allen English Teachers's Perceptions of The Effectiveness of Instructional Coaching Through Literacy Coaching Standards Lens Via A Causal Comparative Survey Design  HUM – Educational Leadership

Winners from all universities:

HUM

1st Place $500 -  Hollie A. Teague
                                  PhD in Soiology - TWU
2nd Place $250 - Amanda Hinson-Enslin
                                  PhD in Health Studies - TWU
3rd Place $100 - Doretha Allen
                                 EdD in Educational Leadership - TAMUC

STEM

1st Place $500 - Quo Quan Lim
                                 PhD in Mechanical and Energy Engineering - UNT
2nd Place $250 -Hassan Qandil and Danielle Da Costa (Co-presenters)
                                 PhD in Mechanical and Energy Engineering - UNT
3rd Place $100 -TIE:
                              Priya Biswas
                                  Master's in Biologial Science - TAMUC
                              Anne Davenport
                                  PhD in Molecular Biology - TWU                           

Anne Davenport
Texas Woman's University winner

Anne Davenport is a PhD student in Molecular Biology at TWU (her research advisor there is Dr. Dianna Hynds), but she received her MS from TAMUC and continues to work in Dr. Cheriyath’s lab.

 Anne Davenport does still work in the lab; she is a doctoral candidate of Biology Department at TWU and a part of Federation North Texas Area Universities  Molecular Biology program. After completing here MS degree with us/TAMUC, she continued her research in my lab. For her doctoral degree, she is deciphering the role of a mitochondrial protein names G1P3 in breast cancer metastasis. Over 90% of breast cancer related deaths are resulting in from breast cancer cell metastasis. Recently, she co-authored an article in British Journal of Cancer that demonstrated the role of G1P3-induced mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in cancer cell metastasis. Her advisor at TWU is Dr. Dianna Hynds. ~Dr. Venu Cheriyath

STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Posters were accepted from Master’s and Doctoral students attending

• Texas A&M University–Commerce
• Texas Woman’s University 
• University of North Texas

in two categories 
1) HUM - Humanities, Education, Social Sciences, & Business; OR 
2) STEM - Mathematics, Science, & Technology

1st place $500
2nd place $250
3rd place $100