With a new commitment to full carbon neutrality and 100 percent renewable energy, you can now “Lyft” your environmental standards every time you use the ride-hailing app.
Being carbon neutral...
UT Theatre and Dance tackles “Mammoth” by Adam Burnett, an inventive paleo-fable following a team of scientists and hunters trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth.
The play’s subtitle...
Although astronomy is normally an observational science, meaning that scientists can only take measurements from existing phenomena, UT’s new Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties is designed...
Our solar system is now tied for the most planets around a single star.
In December, astronomers discovered an eighth planet circling the star Kepler-90. Though Kepler-90 is a sun-like star, the newly-discovered...
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...
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...
On Friday, UT students, faculty and staff gathered along Waller Creek to celebrate Texas Arbor Day by replanting native tree species and giving away seedlings grown from seeds gathered on campus.
Last...
The future looks bright for solar energy as design studio Sol Design Lab said they hope to improve energy knowledge by making the data from UT’s two solar charging stations visible.
The two on-campus...
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,...
What do Popeye and cancerous tumors have in common?
Enough to lend insight to a possible treatment for T-ALL, a specific type of leukemia, according to biology senior Wesley Godfrey.
On...
A fall project at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is encouraging homeowners and businesses to plant milkweed to serve as monarch caterpillar nurseries in the spring.
In June 2015, the...
It’s been just over a year since The Foundry, a makerspace in the Fine Arts Library, opened. The Foundry aims to give students from all disciplines the chance to learn hands-on technological skills.
Amber...
Glance up, and you might notice that UT’s trees are encrusted with sinister, green-gray pom poms.
These are colonies of ball moss, or Tillandsia recurvata, which can only be described as...
