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Requested move 29 October 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. There appears to be consensus that the sources now provided are sufficient. (non-admin closure) Alpha3031 (t • c) 00:49, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

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University of North Texas Health Science Center → UNT Health Fort Worth – Hello, I'm a COI editor asking for this article to be renamed. This past July, the University of North Texas Health Science Center rebranded itself as UNT Health Fort Worth. I've got a few news stories on that rebrand: NBC, Dallas Innovates, and D Magazine. And here is a link to the university's website: UNT Health Fort Worth.

I hope this is a straightforward request, but if anybody wants further proof of the name change or has any questions, please feel free to ask. Thank you! LM at UNT Health (talk) 14:21, 29 October 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Tenshi! (Talk page) 19:41, 5 November 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 19:49, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

• Support if it's a rebrand the page on Wikipedia should reflect this name change. Agnieszka653 (talk) 15:07, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

  Just because something has rebranded, doesn't mean we need to automatically update the title. Have reliable sources began using the new name? Bensci54 (talk) 17:35, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

  Exactly. This is a very common mistake, and particularly common among people with a COI (which in this case is disclosed so no great problem there). The attitude often seems to be "We've changed our name and it belongs to us so end of discussion" which is understandable but contrary to the long-standing, carefully thought out and consensus-based policy here at English Wikipedia.

  There may possibly be an issue with WP:CORPNAME but IMO the username LM at UNT Health just scrapes in as acceptable. Interested in other views on that. Andrewa (talk) 05:30, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Oppoee per WP:OFFICIALNAMES. Wikipedia uses the WP:COMMONNAME for article titles, not the institution's own official name. Evidence is needed that the rebrand has led to a change in the common name – as it says at WP:NAMECHANGES: "If the reliable sources written after the change is announced routinely use the new name, Wikipedia should follow suit and change relevant titles to match. If, on the other hand, reliable sources written after the name change is announced continue to use the established name when discussing the article topic in the present day, Wikipedia should continue to do so as well". Merely that the rebrand has occurred is insufficient to change the article title. Robminchin (talk) 04:32, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose but suggest yet another relisting. What we need in order to invoke WP:NAMECHANGES are independent secondary sources that use the new name... sources that discuss something other than the rename or even the topic University of North Texas Health Science Center, but which in covering some other topic mention UNT Health Fort Worth by that name. It's a subtle distinction but important. Feel free to post to my talk page at User talk:Andrewa#UNT Health rename if you'd like me to comment on proposed sources or try to clarify the distinction as I see it. Andrewa (talk) 21:41, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

  To address User:Bensci54, User:Robminchin, and User:Andrewa's concerns, I've assembled some recent press that identifies the institution as "UNT Health Fort Worth" or "UNT Health." We just changed the name over the summer, but it does seem to have caught on with journalistic outlets. Anecdotally, I don't see the old name very much anymore. At any rate, here are my examples:

  • Fort Worth Report
  • Fort Worth Inc.
  • NBC's local DFW affiliate
  • Dallas Morning News
  • Fort Worth Star-Telegram

  I hope that helps clarify this decision-making process. If other editors have thoughts, please don't hesitate to weigh in! LM at UNT Health (talk) 21:55, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

• Support (change of !vote) in view of WP:NAMECHANGES and evidence now provided. Andrewa (talk) 05:10, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
• Support. Given the sources recently provided by the nominator, I believe the evidence now demonstrates that usage has shifted, making the move desirable under WP:NAMECHANGES. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 19:34, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Post-move cleanup request

Hey again! Thanks to all the editors who contributed to the move discussion above. In the body of the article, there are now numerous mentions of "University of North Texas Health Sciences Center," "UNTHSC," and "HSC" that need to be changed to "UNT Health Fort Worth" or "UNT Health." If any volunteer editors want to handle that, I'd very much appreciate it, but in the interest of respecting other people's time, I'd like to request two specific things:

1. Change the school's appellation in the introduction. It could be rewritten like this:

UNT Health Fort Worth is an academic health science center in Fort Worth, Texas. It is part of the University of North Texas System and was founded in 1970 as the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, with its first cohort graduating in 1974. It consists of six schools with a total enrollment of 2,338 students (2022-23).

UNT Health serves as home to several NIH-funded research programs and currently leads all Texas medical and health science centers in research growth. HSC also houses the Atrium Gallery, a nonprofit public art exhibition space which holds eight to 10 arts shows each year.

2. Change the bold text over the infobox to "UNT Health Fort Worth" and replace the old wordmark logo with the new one. I've uploaded the UNT Health logo to the Wikimedia Commons. You can view it by following this link.

I'm happy to discuss other ways to clean up the article following its renaming, but I think those two things would be a good start. Thanks! Libby.maness (talk) 16:58, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Whoops! I posted the request above from my personal account. I'm now logged back into my COI one. Apologies for any confusion I've created. I'll be more careful in the future. LM at UNT Health (talk) 17:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

I've done part of this. The ==History== section should use the names that were relevant at the time (e.g., TCOM in the 1970s, UNTHSC in the 1990s). What year was the school's name changed in?

Also, could you find more recent demographic information for the UNT Health Fort Worth#Student life section, and post that as a separate request? WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:59, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, User:WhatamIdoing! The school changed its name earlier this year.

I understand what you're saying about keeping references to the school's former name intact within the History section. Actually, speaking of, I recently wrote a draft for that section that cleans up the existing content and adds some well-sourced new content. I'm going to propose that in an edit request below, because I have it on hand. If you want to review, I would greatly appreciate it. But don't feel obligated. I know you're a volunteer.

I will circle back on the demographic information for the Student life section. I'm going to rummage through our resources, see if we've published anything that might be useful. If I find something good, I'll put forward a request and tag you in. LM at UNT Health (talk) 15:43, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:18, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done but not all by me STEMinfo (talk) 07:15, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

History section request

Hi! Per my discussion with User:WhatamIdoing above, I'm putting forward a History draft that I hope will significantly improve that section. This is a pretty long draft, so if editors have specific questions, I'll happily answer them. But my basic approach was to:

• Improve sourcing, where possible
• Cut existing passages that I couldn't find good sourcing for
• Trim away some extraneous information to improve the section's readability
• Add new content that's well-sourced and relevant to the average Wikipedia reader
• Add a bit of content about the university's response to Fall 2024 events

I'll hide my draft using the collapse function so that I don't take up too much room on this Talk page:

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UNT Health Fort Worth was founded in 1970 as the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM). TCOM was the first osteopathic medical school to be established in Texas. The college initially operated out of the Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital as well as a small white house and its adjacent garage. In 1971, classes were moved into the converted Taverner Bowling Alley.

In 1975, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 216. This law transformed TCOM into a state-supported medical school under the direction of North Texas State University's Board of Regents. TCOM used its state funding to break ground on several new facilities for its Fort Worth campus, which at the time was 16 acres.

In 1993, TCOM established its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and renamed itself University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). In 1999, UNTHSC opened its School of Public Health.

In 2004, UNTHSC opened a new Center for Biohealth facility.<That same year, the university also opened its School of Health Professions.

In 2013, UNTHSC opened its College of Pharmacy. Its inaugural class was comprised of 82 students pursuing a PharmD. By this time, the university was comprised of five colleges and its campus had expanded to 33 acres. In 2015, UNTHSC and TCU announced the creation of a joint MD school, which began matriculating students in 2018. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNTHSC partnered with the Tarrant County Department of Public Health to perform contact tracing. The program included 90 students working part time to interview people who tested positive for COVID and find out where they had traveled as well as who they had been in contact with.

In 2022, UNT Health Science Center's Physician Assistant, Health Care Management, Public Health, and Physical Therapy programs were ranked #33, #65, #90, and #97, respectively, by U.S. News & World Report. That same year, UNTHSC opened its Regional Simulation Center, a facility that uses virtual reality technology in conjunction with mannequins and multi-functional spaces in order to simulate health care scenarios. The facility is used as a training tool for medical students as well as more experienced health care providers aiming to hone new skills. Also in 2022, the School of Biomedical Sciences started UNTHSC's first bachelor's degree program in Biomedical Sciences. In 2023, UNTHSC further expanded by opening its College of Nursing. The school was founded in part to address the shortage of trained nurses in Tarrant County.

In September 2024, NBC News revealed that UNTHSC had received around 2,350 unclaimed bodies from Dallas County and Tarrant County since 2019, of which more than 830 bodies were subsequently selected for dissection and study. Some of these studies occurred without the pre-death consent of the deceased or the consent of their survivors. The leasing of unclaimed bodies and body parts, as well as related laboratory space, to for-profit medical device makers and others generated revenue for UNTHSC of around $2.5 million a year. In response to inquiries by NBC News, UNTHSC announced the closure of the BioSkills Lab, the suspension of its Willed Body Program, and the firing of the program's leadership.

In November 2024, UNT Health Science Center received a cease-and-desist letter from the Texas Funeral Service Commission, which stated that it had discovered in an October 2024 inspection that UNT Health Science Center had been liquefying human remains using water cremation, which the Commission claimed to be illegal in the state of Texas. The university responded by citing a section of the Texas administrative code allowing for the practice while also indicating that it had proactively stopped water cremation in September 2024.

In January 2025, UNT Health Science Center was awarded tenth place in the Lown Institute's 2024 Shkreli awards, which seek to highlight profiteering and dysfunction in the healthcare industry.

In July 2025, UNTHSC renamed itself UNT Health Forth Worth.

References

Thanks, LM at UNT Health (talk) 15:51, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

I see that User:Ozzie10aaaa made some sensible edits to the article recently, so I'll ask them if they would like to review this request. LM at UNT Health (talk) 20:37, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done CornerLitTweak (talk) 22:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

I really appreciate the help, User:CornerLitTweak! LM at UNT Health (talk) 19:06, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Research section request

My History request above has been sitting for a while, which is understandable. It's a pretty dense request. For now, I'm going to move on to proposing a revision of the Research section. My draft here is shorter than the History one but some of its basic aims are the same. I've tried to:

• Find good sourcing for existing passages
• Excise passages that I couldn't find good sourcing for
• Add new information about recent research activity
• Provide readers with a decent idea of the kind of research the university performs

I'm going to use the textdiff function to place my draft side-by-side with the existing section. Here's that:

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UNT Health Science Center has a total research expenditure of $79.1 million in fiscal year 2022, of which $53.1 million is federally sourced. Areas of research strength include population health, health disparities, ophthalmology, forensics, and healthy aging. The Center for Human Identification's accredited forensic laboratory provides genetic and anthropological examinations for criminal casework and missing persons identification, local CODIS operations, and development. At North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), which opened in 1992, scientists conduct investigate novel therapies for ophthalmologic disorders affecting patients in general as well as those from minority patient populations. At the Center for Health Disparities, scientists conduct prevention and outcomes research in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, stroke, and HIV.In 2018, HSC founded the Institute for Translational Research with the goal of translating basic science into treatments and new procedures for Alzheimer's and other diseases. The institute received a $45 million grant in 2020 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to examine the biological differences that cause Alzheimer's disease to disproportionately afflict Mexican Americans. The institute also received a $50 million award in 2020 from NIH to lead the coordinating center for the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. The goal of AIM-AHEAD is building and advancing AI/ML approaches using EHR and other types of data (e.g., genomics, imaging, social determinants of health) to redress health disparities and advance health equity. Taken together, these are the largest research grants ever awarded in the same year to UNT Health Science Center.

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Major areas of research at UNT Health Fort Worth include health disparities, ophthalmology, forensics, and healthy aging. The Center for Human Identification's accredited forensic laboratory provides genetic and anthropological examinations for criminal casework and missing persons identification, local CODIS operations, and development. The North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), which opened in 1992, seeks to develop new treatments for eye disorders such as [[glaucoma]], [[macular degeneration]], and [[optic neuritis]].UNT Health's Center for Health Disparities idenitfies [[health equity|health disparities]] through research and seeks to correct them through training and community outreach. In 2021, the Center for Health Disparities received a $50 million award from the [[National Institutes of Health]] to lead the coordinating center for the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. AIM-AHEAD seeks to apply AI and machine-learning to health records and other medical data in order to figure out novel ways of addressing health disparities.In 2020, as part of the National Institutes of Health's efforts to study the biology of Alzheimer's disease among different racial and ethnic groups, the UNT Health Institute for Translational Research received a $45 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. In October 2022, the Health Institute for Translational Research received another grant for $148 million in order to continue doing this research.

References

And then here is what my section draft looks like by itself:

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Major areas of research at UNT Health Fort Worth include health disparities, ophthalmology, forensics, and healthy aging.

The Center for Human Identification's accredited forensic laboratory provides genetic and anthropological examinations for criminal casework and missing persons identification, local CODIS operations, and development. The North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), which opened in 1992, seeks to develop new treatments for eye disorders such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and optic neuritis.

UNT Health's Center for Health Disparities idenitfies health disparities through research and seeks to correct them through training and community outreach. In 2021, the Center for Health Disparities received a $50 million award from the National Institutes of Health to lead the coordinating center for the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. AIM-AHEAD seeks to apply AI and machine-learning to health records and other medical data in order to figure out novel ways of addressing health disparities.

In 2020, as part of the National Institutes of Health's efforts to study the biology of Alzheimer's disease among different racial and ethnic groups, the UNT Health Institute for Translational Research received a $45 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. In October 2022, the Health Institute for Translational Research received another grant for $148 million in order to continue doing this research.

References

Thanks in advance to any editors who review this request. If I can answer any questions or concerns about the content I'm proposing, please let me know! LM at UNT Health (talk) 16:19, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm going to ask User:Andrewa if they would mind reviewing this request and/or the one above it. In fact, some advice on what I should do next, since both of these requests seem a bit stuck, would be almost as helpful as a review. Whatever you have time for, Andrewa! Thanks! LM at UNT Health (talk) 16:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done CornerLitTweak (talk) 22:15, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

User:CornerLitTweak: Thanks for reviewing and approving this request! No pressure, but if you want to take a look, there's a request to update the History section above this one that's been languishing since December of last year. Regardless, I really appreciate your help with this one. LM at UNT Health (talk) 18:14, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

That looked good to me, the citations all check out, and the request has been hanging out for ~6 months with no other objections.  Done CornerLitTweak (talk) 22:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Research institutes section request

Hello! My next request is a pretty simple one. More than a few of the institutes listed under the Research institutes heading are no longer operating. The university currently has six active institutes. They are:

• Center for Human Identification
• North Texas Eye Research Institute
• Institute for Health Disparities
• Institute for Translational Research
• Center for Anatomical Sciences
• Sensory Research Institute

References

Would an independent editor mind updating the list? Thanks! LM at UNT Health (talk) 15:31, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Renaming and updating HSC Health section

Hello! I wanted to ask editors to consider renaming and updating the HSC Health section. That part of the university has been renamed. It's now called the UNT Health Clinical Practice Group. I have a brief draft that renames the section and adds some stronger content that's backed up by decent sourcing. (The current version of the section lacks citations.) Here is that draft:

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UNT Health Clinical Practice Group

The UNT Health Clinical Practice Group is the clinical branch of the university that provides health care services to the general public across Tarrant County. UNT Health clinicians work to treat a broad range of ailments including dementia, hepatits-c, and musculoskeletal pain.

References

If editors have any questions about my proposed changes, I'm happy to answer questions below. Thank you! LM at UNT Health (talk) 14:45, 2 July 2026 (UTC)