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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Stone, Williams, receive Emerging Inventor, Inventor of the Year awards

Kevin Dural November 14, 2017

Two UT-Austin researchers have been recognized for their work in improving cellular response to cancer and making drugs more soluble for absorption within the body. Everett Stone of the Department of...

Students search for new antibiotics

Sabrina Tran November 10, 2017

Students are learning how to fight bacteria with antibiotic-producing bacteria and looking for new antibiotics in Antibiotics: Research and Function, a research stream run by the College of Natural Sciences. Bacterial...

UT-Austin supercomputing center provides aid for Children’s Optimal Health

Elizabeth Robinson November 10, 2017

The UT-Austin Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is providing data storage and security for Children’s Optimal Health (COH) to help assess the quality of child health on a community-level basis...

UT launches environmental engineering undergraduate degree

Shezaz Hannan November 10, 2017

After years of planning, the Cockrell School of Engineering launched a new undergraduate degree in environmental engineering this fall. The new degree offers undergraduate students the opportunity to...

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Texas researchers to develop new technology to study brain circuitry

Areeba Khwaja November 10, 2017

Scientists are making waves in brain research. Researchers involved in a multi-institutional Texas project are developing a new, non-invasive neuromodulation tool to enhance cognitive function in the...

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Students search for new antibiotics

Sabrina Tran November 9, 2017

Students are learning how to fight bacteria with antibiotic-producing bacteria and looking for new antibiotics in Antibiotics: Research and Function, a research stream run by the College of Natural Sciences. Bacterial...

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UT astronomers find evidence of exocomet tails 800 light-years away

Jennifer Liu November 8, 2017

UT astronomers found evidence of six exocomets, or comets outside Earth’s solar system, 800 light-years away, using NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Comets are small, icy solar system bodies...

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Use of big data can transform police practices

Lucy Cai November 6, 2017

Although “big data” analytics have traditionally been associated with reshaping fields such as finance and healthcare, a recent study suggests that massive amounts of digitized information...

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UT economics student grows food on landfills

Shezaz Hannan November 3, 2017

Economics senior Joy Youwakim is trying to prove that one person’s trash can be another person’s garden. As part of her undergraduate research, Youwakim is growing food on top of a landfill...

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Botanical medicine exhibit shows benefits of herbal supplements

Jessica Shu November 3, 2017

Walk into any health food store across the nation, and you’ll find aisle after aisle of herbal supplements and natural remedies of dubious value. While alternative medicine often gets a bad rap,...

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UT, Columbia researchers develop device that could improve wireless technologies

Jennifer Liu November 2, 2017

UT-Austin and Columbia University researchers have invented a millimeter-wave circulator that could enable tetherless virtual reality and self-driving cars. Circulators transmit microwave and radio...

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UT students take second place in national engineering competition

Thanvi Thodati November 2, 2017

A team of UT-Austin students claimed second place in the PepsiCo/Society of Women Engineers Student Engineering Challenge, impressing a panel of PepsiCo research and development specialists at the Society...

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