World Intellectual Property Day, observed annually on April 26, honors the inventors behind the innovative technology used in daily life.
The day highlights the impact of UT’s inventors, which...
An $80 million partnership between engineering professor George Georgiou’s research company Kyn Therapeutics and biotechnology company Celgene will study a new treatment for cancer — the human...
A team of UT researchers found that speaking clearly allows for better information recall in listeners, with results that can be applied in academic, health and scientific settings.
Rajka Smiljanic,...
No researcher could say for certain whether 17-century playwright Aphra Behn wrote five plays considered to be scandalous and revolutionary for women at that time. The authorship of “The Woman Turned...
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, CRISPR, is a family of DNA sequences naturally found within unicellular organisms such as bacteria. The sequences provide considerable advantage...
The United States Space Force (USSF), a proposed branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, will be established in 2020, according to a plan announced by Vice President Mike Pence in August. However, cadets...
The Office of Technology Commercialization at UT hosted its 8th Annual Inventor Awards on Thursday, recognizing the 2018 Inventor and Emerging Inventor of the Year. Petroleum Engineering professor Gary...
Computer science researcher Keshav Pingali, alongside others at Yale University and Texas State University, was the recipient of a $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA...
Professor Michael E. Webber’s @EnergyHistory gives you a daily dose of energy. The Webber Energy Group, a UT mechanical engineering research group headed by Webber, director of the Energy Institute,,...
A team of three UT-Austin students placed first in the world’s largest medical hackathon, Medhacks, hosted at Johns Hopkins University.
Teams of students and professionals from across the country...
A surge in electric car usage among Austinites has spurred investment in charging stations and could accelerate the presence of electric transportation on UT-campus.
Travis and Williamson counties...
Austin was ranked the 19th best city in the United States for tech jobs, according to an analysis by Student Loan Hero. The findings were based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The study...
Great Barrier Reef corals may not be in as much danger as scientists originally predicted — at least for now — due to their genetic variation.
Although environmental pressures such as rising...
A couple billion years ago, Venus may have looked a lot more similar to how Earth looks today.
According to Matthew Weller, an institutional postdoc at UT’s Institute for Geophysics, along with...
Students who tuned into a recent showing of HQ Trivia, a mobile game show where viewers can participate in a trivia game using their smartphones, may have been surprised to find out that UT-Austin owns...
As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, cancer drug researcher Jonathan Sessler was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Sessler ultimately beat the disease, and now...
The McDonald Observatory is teaming up with park rangers at the National Park Service to show off another natural wonder to park visitors: the night sky.
According to Marc Wetzel, the observatory’s...
Learning can result in the increase of how much information our brains can hold, researchers have found.
Researchers at UT-Austin, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of Otago...
The way we talk about food depends on where we live, according to a study by UT researchers.
Psychology postdoctoral student Kate Blackburn and psychology postdoctoral student Ryan Boyd have discovered...
Two UT postdoctoral fellows will shoot for the moon, thanks to a prestigious fellowship.
Ya-Lin Wu and Aaron Rizzuto from the UT Department of Astronomy received the prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship....
In case you missed last week’s new episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” the fictional doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital praised a very real ground-breaking invention from UT researchers. ...
Does life exist on other planets? Leading researchers across multiple disciplines at UT-Austin are coming together in an effort to settle this question once and for all.
The Office of the Vice President...
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...
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...
A team including UT-Austin alumnus Harry Hoffman has developed a sports social media platform to connect fans at the stadium. Fandom, Inc., the business created by Hoffman, is behind the development of...
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...
Health data company vitaTrackr wants to give patients control of their medical records.
Founded in 2011, vitaTrackr moved to Austin in 2015. CEO Brian Baum said that America lacked an independent...
The National Institutes of Health awarded UT professors Yuebing Zheng and Xiaolu Cambronne with the NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards on Oct. 5, which include a research grant of $2.3 million each.
NIH...
Google is expanding its Austin office to 10 floors and revamping the workplace with modern, stimulating architecture.
According to Jason Stanford, communications director for Austin Mayor Steve Adler,...
In conjunction with Apple, Austin Community College is launching a new application development program aimed at educating the next generation of coders and developers.
The curriculum, designed by Apple,...
In a press release, Amazon announced its intentions to open a new, second headquarters equal in size to its current one in Seattle.
The online commerce giant will invest $5 billion in the new...
People are buzzing about a new startup application called UNIBEES, a nationwide, one-stop-shop for deals and free food and aimed at college students. Founded in 2016, the app simplifies the way students...
UT undergraduate entrepreneurs will get the chance to pitch their startups to the public this Thursday.
Demo Day, hosted by the Longhorn Startup Lab, will last from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Lady Bird Johnson...
Local high schooler Akshara Anand believes ensuring gender diversity in STEM fields starts as early as middle school.
Anand, a junior at Austin’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy, recently...
John Goodenough, UT electrical engineering professor and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has helped create a more efficient, solid-based battery.
Goodenough headed a team of electrical...
A new application called GazeSpeak will allow people to “speak” with their eyes.
The application aims to allow those affected by motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,...
Your chariot awaits: A new mobility service uses 14-seat vans to make getting around Austin easier.
Chariot, a mobility app and company founded in 2014, recently expanded from San Francisco to Austin....
The Texas Board of Education plans to hold a final vote to update evolution curriculum.
Last Friday, the board voted to approve changes to the evolutionary curriculum taught in classrooms across Texas....
As science issues come to the forefront of American politics, one interest group plans to support STEM professionals running for office.
Created by the nonprofit 314 Action, “STEM the Divide”...
Spitshine Poetry, the only poetry club on campus, hosted an open mic night Wednesday where students were free to come and share their own work to an audience of students and other poets.
“I’ve...
