Raiyan Shaik, General News Reporter
• September 21, 2022
UT’s LaunchPad, a student entrepreneurship program, is accepting applications for new StartUP grants to provide funding to any undergraduate student for their entrepreneurial ventures.
“We’re...
Vivien Ayers, General News Reporter
• September 21, 2022
A UT report analyzing the connection between career growth and environmentally focused workplaces found that jobs that promote sustainable practices are growing faster than the rest of the workforce in...
Joelle DiPaolo, Senior news reporter
• September 9, 2022
Publicly funded research should be rid of paywalls by 2026, according to an Aug. 25 memorandum from the White House, which requires federal agencies to make all public research accessible.
The decision...
A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the formation of a team of UT researchers to further the development of synthetic cells.
The grant, which was awarded over the summer,...
A new study from UT researchers analyzed categories of ice found in Antarctica in order to make predictions for the makeup of Jupiter’s moon Europa’s icy shell.
Published in Astrobiology at NASA,...
A new study from UT researchers found that delays in COVID-19 contact tracing undermined the effectiveness of preventing further spread of the virus in Austin.
The study describes contact tracing as...
Joelle DiPaolo, Senior News Reporter
• September 2, 2022
Content warning: This article mentions suicide.
Forty-nine years ago, homosexuality was unclassified as a mental illness in the U.S. Seven years ago, same-sex marriage was legalized. Despite U.S....
A study published by UT researchers in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience used brain imaging techniques to find that memory fidelity in older adults is lower, despite both younger and older adults being...
Researchers found that random acts of kindness can affect people’s well-being significantly more than expected, according to a study published Aug. 19.
Based on experiments ranging from giving someone...
UT researchers have developed new biocompatible transistors that mimic brain synapses, an advancement that could potentially help scientists to rebuild neural pathways or create brain implants.
While...
Karley Singleton dreamed of being a filmmaker, but she said she had to push her dream to the side so she could afford insulin.
“What I want to do for my passion would be to get gigs … or work...
UT researchers uncovered that stars form through a self-regulatory process, an answer to the mystery scientists have been studying for decades.
The STARFORGE project is a multi-institutional collaborative...
