UT-Austin stays true to its motto: What starts here changes the world. One alumna and former Freshman Research Initiative student is realizing this motto by winning a fellowship at a top medical institute.
Lynne...
UT Libraries is helping out in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico by using the power of crowdsourcing to update online maps.
Open-source, or free and collaborative, maps are an increasingly...
While solar power is a useful alternative energy source wherever the sun shines, solar panels aren’t 100 percent efficient due to the changing angle of the sun in the sky. However, two UT students...
Abortion remains one of the most controversial and divisive areas of policy around the world. In the United States, abortion is legal but a highly partisan and often moral issue, while elsewhere such as...
New research from the Jackson School of Geosciences illuminates the history of the moon’s landscape.
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team of researchers...
A program in the School of Architecture is helping UT reduce, reuse and recycle by gathering excess materials and making them available to students.
The Material Exchange, located within the Sutton...
The population in Texas is expected to nearly double by 2070, according to Texas’ 2017 State Water Plan, and that means a not so excellent future for a state with already strained resources and vulnerability...
Using the computing powers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, TACC, at UT-Austin, researchers are making progress on the biological mechanisms of West Nile virus. The computational heavy lifting was...
A new policy statement released by the American Academy of Pediatrics addresses an often neglected issue surrounding body weight — weight stigmatization.
Weight stigmatization, which involves...
Weighing upwards of 150 tons and 25 meters in diameter, the Giant Magellan telescope will not be your average backyard telescope.
In early November, UT-Austin joined other universities to initiate the...
The era of memorizing passwords, carrying plastic driver’s licenses and shuffling passports may soon come to a close, thanks to a new collaboration at UT-Austin.
The UT Center for Identity, an...
UT-Austin ranks No. 10 among U.S. universities for publication of scientific research and No. 11 among all U.S. institutions, according to the latest report from the Nature Index. UT-Austin was also ranked...
