Katy Nelson is a sophomore majoring in journalism and is currently working as a senior reporter writing science and research stories. She previously worked for the Texan in Spring 2021 and Fall 2021, and she has a lovely feral cat named Bluebell.
Comet strikes on Jupiter’s moon Europa could result in taking the potential for life to a hidden subsurface ocean, UT researchers found in a study published Nov. 28.
According to NASA, Europa is...
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...
The United States Department of Education awarded UT’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies $2 million in Title VI grants on Aug. 3.
The Center for Russian, East European and...
The Blanton Museum of Art opened its newest exhibition on Aug. 14, a display that focuses on the fashion and racial identities of colonial Latin America.
The exhibition, entitled “Painted Cloth: Fashion...
The Blanton Museum started accepting submissions on April 20 for its third annual Bake-Off, which encourages children, adults and professional bakers to recreate pieces of artwork from the museum into...
Cornyn and McCaul engaged in a roundtable discussion with industry executives at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus to discuss the University’s public-private partnership with the Texas Institute for Electronics to advance semiconductor research within the United States.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 26, 2022 flipbook.
The world’s most powerful academic supercomputer — UT Austin’s Frontera — received its next annual set of projects...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• April 20, 2022
The world’s largest international dark sky reserve opened April 7 through a collaboration of entities that focus on environmental concerns and astronomy in West Texas, including UT’s McDonald Observatory.
A...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 12, 2022 flipbook.
A UT program centered on helping Latinx families learn and manage their children's asthma is expanding their recruitment to...
The first COVID-19 vaccine patch is expected to enter phase one of clinical trials later this year as a result of research from a team of UT scientists.
Vaxxas, a company focused on commercializing...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 29, 2022 flipbook.
Some of the UT researchers involved in creating the structure-based vaccines used against COVID-19 have potentially created...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• March 31, 2022
University researchers drilled for ancient corals off the South Pacific Ocean to find out how the climate pattern of El Niño might change as a result of climate change. Although they received inconclusive...
Editor's Note: This article was first appeared in the March 22, 2022 flipbook.
UT plans to collect data to identify areas where libraries need support in order to help Texas libraries better understand...
University researchers potentially improved a key component of the gene-editing tool CRISPR, ensuring more efficiency and safety during alteration.
CRISPR is a tool used to alter genes by editing...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• March 10, 2022
Stampede2, one of the supercomputers available to University researchers, received a funding extension Feb. 21 to continue supporting scientists with research. The funding will last until June 2023, but...
The team wants to eventually turn the gel into films that could be applied to windows to reflect light when it is hot and to allow light in when it is cold.
The organization also released a petition on Feb. 9, advocating for affordable daycare at UT and more welcoming spaces for students with children on campus.
Underpaid@UT, a graduate student organization advocating for fair wages and working conditions, held a recruitment meeting in which current members talked about the organization’s history and goals for...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• February 17, 2022
UT researchers collaborated with a university in Switzerland to develop a brain-computer interface that allows people with disabilities to control robots that aid them with physical tasks through brain...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• February 17, 2022
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct timeline and spelling of InStok.org, Bryan Leach and Darshan Bhatta. The Texan regrets these errors.
Three UT students created the website...
This article first appeared in the Feb. 11, 2022 flipbook.
A study by UT researchers challenges a traditional theory that an ocean acidification event known as “The Great Dying” killed most animals...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• February 10, 2022
UT researchers developed a new soft pressure sensor for wearable technology that medical professionals could use in health monitoring devices and robotics to improve functionality.
The Lu Research...
A nonprofit organization enlisted University researchers last month to assess air pollutant exposure from oil and gas developments in Texas and Colorado.
HEI Energy, an affiliate of the Health Effects...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• February 1, 2022
UT professor Guihua Yu said he first developed his love for science and technology as a small child when his father worked in a sugar-making factory. Now, he is the recipient of a chemical research award...
Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Jan. 25, 2022 flipbook.
A UT researcher, in collaboration with other schools and the Department of Energy, is using artificial intelligence to develop...
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Jan. 25, 2022 flipbook.
A UT researcher, in collaboration with other schools and the Department of Energy, is using artificial intelligence...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the December 2 broadsheet.
Researchers at UT created the first ever treatment for a fatal virus by utilizing a similar antibody technology that was used...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the November 5 flipbook.
UT-Austin researchers are working to speed up flight transportation so travelers can fly to anywhere in the continental United...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 26 flipbook.
The American bumblebee may be listed as an endangered species after a study found their population declined by about 90%.
The...
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the October 19 flipbook.
The Nurdle Patrol program, a UT citizen science effort, began expanding into Mexico on Sept. 1.
The program, which started...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 30 flipbook.
UT researchers will lead a project using the world’s most powerful telescope to see images and data of galaxies closer...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 19 flipbook.
A UT researcher examined how two communities incorporate feminism and environmental ideas in their everyday lives to...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 9 flipbook.
A UT professor aims to achieve a safer, environmentally-conscious space after being appointed as chief scientific advisor...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 12 flipbook.
UT researchers recently discovered that, over the span of weeks, massive Mars flooding carved out canyons hundreds of meters...
A public service organization focused on voting is collaborating with the Briscoe Center to digitize documents, images, audio and video files from Jack Brooks, UT alumnus and former U.S. representative...
To better understand the conditions and potential for hosting life on other planets, a collaboration of researchers, including some from UT, received a nearly $1.2 million grant in early October for key...
Research from an environmental sustainability organization and a group at UT could lead to an expansion of solar energy in the Austin area.
The environmental advocacy group, The Ray, first collaborated...
Senate Bill 52, approved Oct. 15, provided the University with $56 million to renovate the Microelectronics Research Center at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus and $56 million to renovate the Physics, Math, and Astronomy building.
UT will sell new Longhorn apparel and open a flagship retail store on campus through a partnership with major retailers.
On Oct. 7 UT announced the extension of their partnership with clothing company...
A UT researcher found the U.S. did not maintain strong enough social distancing policies in 2020 to prevent long-term COVID-19 spread due to disagreements between states on virus precautions in a collaborative...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 27 flipbook.
Former firefighter Harry Evans said first responders often do not fully understand the depth and scope of flooding events...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 21 flipbook.
A decade ago, the shoreline of Jeju Island, Korea, lay empty. But after visitors came across a local fishing village...
Some UT researchers started creating a new computer chip that could be implemented within the next 10 years in computers and phones to improve their performance.
The neuromorphic computer chips mimic...
Dozens of students from campus organizations such as Underpaid@UT, Young Democratic Socialists of America, Cops Off Campus, the Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin and the Texas State Employees Union, lined up outside the steps of the Tower, saying Hartzell has not played a leadership role in ensuring students’ and workers’ safety or listened to student leaders’ requests.
Through a new program starting next fall, UT students will create the next generation of accessible robots designed for the average person.
The new robotics program, called the Convergent, Responsible,...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 14 flipbook.
UT engineering students could become the first collegiate team in the nation to launch a liquid-propelled rocket into...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 10 flipbook.
UT researchers discovered a way to convert untapped oil into clean hydrogen energy, which could change how cars are...
The Texas NAACP, the NAACP UT chapter and a group of anonymous students filed a complaint against UT with the U.S. Department of Education for the continued use of “The Eyes of Texas” in University...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the August 31 flipbook.
The Texas Memorial Museum is facing financial strain after budget cuts and a lack of support from UT. Without more financial...
A UT professor created a theory highlighting the exact home of Bevo’s ancestors. He traced the similarities between where cattle originated to the area in Texas the animals ended up, as part of his research...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• August 29, 2021
With nearly half a million pieces of trash floating in space, space environmentalism is an issue a UT aerospace engineering associate professor Moriba Jah says needs to be addressed now.
Jah launched...
UT researchers have helped to better understand how tumor cells evolve to resist cancer treatments by developing ClonMapper, a new technology that tags the cells’ nucleic acid with a type of barcode.
By...
UT researchers found in an Aug. 6 report that if schools open without COVID-19 mitigation efforts and the community does not strengthen compliance with cautionary measures such as masking and social distancing,...
Certain common nervous system cells can change their function to facilitate blood vessel repair and recovery after a stroke, potentially paving the way for new brain injury treatments, according to an April 27 study by UT researchers.
UT scientists analyzed how rock weathering and water storage patterns across landscapes can help predict wildfires, landslides and droughts, according to a study published in late March.
The team of...
The IC2 Institute, a UT-Austin think tank, and the University of Texas-Permian Basin are collaborating to aid local entrepreneurs and small business owners who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The IC2 Institute, a UT-Austin think tank, and the University of Texas-Permian Basin are collaborating to aid local entrepreneurs and small business owners who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The...
Bees social distance during times of illness too, a group of researchers led by a UT alum discovered early this month.
Focusing on nonhuman animals, bats and insects, recent graduate student Sebastian...
Several new West Campus apartment buildings will open to students for the fall semester.
While apartment complexes are reaching out to students with special deals and lease agreements for the...
