Corporal punishment in schools is not a pertinent issue in the minds’ of most Americans, but approximately 160,000 children, especially minorities, still experience this practice yearly.
Elizabeth...
UT’s College of Pharmacy has started the nation’s first comprehensive university opioid-overdose prevention campaign: Operation Naloxone.
Operation Naloxone is a student-led training program...
Stephen Russell, a UT sociology and human development and family sciences professor, is bringing together research, practice and policy to improve the lives of LGBT youth in K-12 schools.
Russell, whose...
Facebook wants to make crisis-reporting a community effort.
On Wednesday, Peter Cottle, a founder and lead engineer of Facebook’s Safety Check feature, presented a talk on the addition of crowdsourcing...
Don’t think about the pink elephant.
Tracy Wang, a neuroscience postdoctoral researcher in the Lewis-Peacock Lab, investigates the science of memories. Earlier this month, Wang released...
The Campus Environmental Center is a group of students dedicated to keeping our earth happy and habitable — starting right here on campus.
This week, the center is bringing speakers, performers...
Balance doesn’t come as easy to a robot as it does to famous soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. UT professors Michael Mauk and Peter Stone are solving this inequality with computers and cerebellums.
Mauk...
Staying healthy is the new “going to the doctor” — and Dell Medical School hopes to prepare its students for this 21st century mindset by allowing them to have one foot in traditional...
UT students are lowering electricity bills, using nanoparticles to look at oil reservoirs and making phone batteries last longer.
This year, UT students won $6,500 for cutting-edge research at...
Genomics. Transcriptomics. Proteomics. Researchers across campus need help with the advanced software necessary in a world of “-omics” technologies.
The Center for Computational Biology...
