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Political uncertainty leaves students concerned, disappointed as health organizations cancel opportunities

Political uncertainty leaves students concerned, disappointed as health organizations cancel opportunities

Diego Hernandez and Isaiah Williams March 13, 2025

Chemistry sophomore Zahra Mahmood wanted to work for the National Institutes of Health and began looking into potential job opportunities at the institutes over winter break. Aside from the possible prestige...

Study finds individuals experienced improved well-being, mental health after two-week mobile internet break

Study finds individuals experienced improved well-being, mental health after two-week mobile internet break

Kendall Meachum, General News Reporter March 5, 2025

A two-week mobile internet break can improve a person’s well-being, mental health and sustained attention, according to a Feb. 18 study published by a UT professor. The study used an app to block...

UT lab launches measles outbreak simulator to help schools with emerging outbreaks

UT lab launches measles outbreak simulator to help schools with emerging outbreaks

Aiman Tareen, General News Reporter March 2, 2025

A UT lab will launch an online measles outbreak simulator this week in response to the emerging threat of measles. The epiENGAGE lab, previously known as the UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, has made...

UT researcher develops new method for measuring groundwater

UT researcher develops new method for measuring groundwater

Kendall Meachum, General News Reporter February 28, 2025

A UT assistant professor developed a new method for measuring groundwater that uses existing seismic infrastructure, according to a Feb.13 study. Shujuan Mao, an assistant professor at the Jackson School...

UT researchers analyze 69-million-year-old bird skull, reveal insights about evolution

UT researchers analyze 69-million-year-old bird skull, reveal insights about evolution

Kendall Meachum, General News Reporter February 19, 2025

An analysis of the skull of the roughly 69-million-year-old Vegavis iaai bird provided insight into the species’ place on the evolutionary tree of birds, UT researchers said in a collaborative study...

UT researchers discover communication between growth, immunity pathways in plants

UT researchers discover communication between growth, immunity pathways in plants

Genevieve Britten, General News Reporter February 19, 2025

A plant’s immune response to pathogens can cross-regulate the plant’s growth development, UT researchers and collaborators published in a Feb. 5 study. Plants contain pores called stomata that allow...

UT researchers develop AI brain decoder with promising uses for aphasia patients

UT researchers develop AI brain decoder with promising uses for aphasia patients

Jonathan Fredricks , General News Reporter February 18, 2025

It might start when a person stumbles over a word. Within as few as four years, a patient with primary progressive aphasia, a neurological language disorder, could go completely mute, said Maya Henry,...

UT researchers develop nanoparticle for targeted disease treatment

UT researchers develop nanoparticle for targeted disease treatment

Emily Krupa, General Reporter February 18, 2025

UT-Austin researchers developed a method that uses ultrasound waves to deliver drugs to targeted areas of the body, according to a report released on Feb. 5.  The researchers partnered with UT-San...

UT-led research team studies cause of short-term battery life in wireless earbuds

UT-led research team studies cause of short-term battery life in wireless earbuds

Hanna Connolly, General News Reporter February 14, 2025

Batteries in technology like wireless earbuds degrade unevenly due to conflicting conditions within the device, a UT-led research team found in an international study released Jan. 31. “The bottom...

UT researchers make advances in carbon dioxide reduction technology

UT researchers make advances in carbon dioxide reduction technology

Diego Hernandez, Senior News Reporter January 22, 2025

Smaller ions in liquids with high saline contents can improve efficiency in the transformation of carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, UT and University of Copenhagen researchers found in a Jan. 10...

UT research study finds patients with heart disease might be at greater risk for advanced breast cancer 

UT research study finds patients with heart disease might be at greater risk for advanced breast cancer 

Kendall Meachum, General News Reporter January 14, 2025

Individuals with cardiovascular disease might have an increased risk of advanced breast cancer, according to a Jan. 2 MD Anderson Cancer Center study.  The study suggests patients with more advanced...

Dark matter could have been created much earlier than previously thought, UT Department of Physics researchers revealed in a new model published in Physical Review Letters on Nov. 18.

UT researchers develop new model for the production of dark matter

Samantha Reimers, General News Reporter December 4, 2024

Dark matter could have been created much earlier than previously thought, UT Department of Physics researchers revealed in a new model published in Physical Review Letters on Nov. 18. The model, named...

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