What’s worse than being a science nerd who raves about science is being a science nerd who raves about science and writes about it.
Entering UT as a freshman this year, I had a feeling that I...
Austin has become an attractive hub for technology and startup companies. Yet, when attorney Alex Shahrestani came to UT School of Law in 2015, he said he was surprised to find technology law was not a...
Dell Medical School students are administering free whooping cough vaccines in medically underserved Austin areas with a grant from the Texas Medical Association’s “Be Wise — Immunize”...
Deepanjli Donthula had a bold idea, and this idea led her to launch a full-fledged course at UT.
After creating a seminar on health communication, neuroscience junior Donthula has received approval...
Nursing researchers, software developers and engineers at UT are collaborating to create a digital game aimed at helping heart failure patients manage their health.
Nearly five million Americans...
For the second year in a row, a UT aerospace engineering student has won the Brooke Owens Fellowship, a highly competitive program that selects 36 women in engineering across the nation and matches them...
UT’s Dell Seton Medical Center is the first place in Texas to offer deep brain stimulation as a treatment for epilepsy patients.
“Deep brain stimulation, in general, is the idea of...
This year’s Sustainable Dog House Challenge was an un-fur-gettable experience, with dogs from the Austin Animal Center paying a visit.
The event, hosted earlier this month by the Civil,...
UT computer vision researchers are working to improve 360 technology.
Using 360 technology, virtual reality headsets and 360 videos allow people to view spaces as if they were present. In a 360...
For years, U.S. policymakers have called for an increase in the number and diversity of students pursuing STEM degrees and careers. Yet, STEM retention rates remain a public policy challenge.
“Many...
Thinking back to high school biology, many students remember listening to teachers talk about the central dogma of biology — how DNA is copied into RNA, which is translated into proteins. However,...
Cockrell School of Engineering researchers are creating a new molecule that can identify cells infected with cytomegalovirus.
According to Mayo Clinic, this is a common virus that can infect people...
Scientists have spent years trying to unravel the mysteries of the brain, and Lauren Hewitt is no exception. Inspired by her research in neurobiology, Hewitt has combined her passions of science and embroidery...
Women make up 35.7 percent of general surgical residents in the United States and Canada, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. However, this year, all chief resident positions at...
Students feeling pressured by the clock don’t have to be, communication studies professor Dawna Ballard said.
It’s not the clock that’s causing the stress — it’s how you...
Making better dietary choices may be a side effect of working out, according to a new UT study published in the International Journal of Obesity.
In the study, 2,680 sedentary young adults underwent...
UT’s Ichthyology, or fish collection, located at the J.J. Pickle Research Center, is an impressive source of ecological history and data collection, containing more than a million fish specimens.
“Imagine...
UT students participated in Science Sprints on Saturday to tackle science-related problems across campus.
Science Sprints — intensive one-day events hosted by the College of Natural Sciences...
UT researchers are examining how parental involvement in children’s anxiety treatment can make it more effective.
Through the Texas Child Study Center’s Childhood Anxiety Treatment...
University of Texas scholars are offering a new solution to addressing environmental crises: hope.
The Radical Hope syllabus, formatted similar to a college syllabus, is an online collection of resources...
The Health Leadership Apprentice program at Dell Medical School aims to connect students with faculty and resources at the medical school to work on projects that will transform health care.
The...
This week, energy experts from across industry, academia and government sectors will gather on campus to speak at the 2019 UT Energy Week.
“UT Energy Week is a joint effort between the Longhorn...
UT researchers are working on a large clinical trial, Memories 2, to evaluate how sleep disturbance might accelerate or impact the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
The project is an expansion...
The Association for Women in Science at UT launched their inaugural event, the Women in STEM Career Panel, on Monday. The panel drew the attention of dozens of students as they came to hear four women...
A new one-year master’s program at UT seeks to spearhead change in health delivery and create high-value services in healthcare.
The Master of Science in Health Care Transformation program, a...
Launch Years, a new initiative from UT’s Charles A. Dana Center, hopes to bridge the gap in mathematics education between K-12 and higher education systems.
The Dana Center, which focuses...
For the last 139 years, every measurement of mass you’ve ever made, from weighing fruit at the grocery store to stepping on your bathroom scale, can be traced back to a chunk of metal locked securely...
You’ve heard of Albert Einstein. You’ve heard of Stephen Hawking. But have you heard of Eugenie Clark or Sally Ride?
While these female scientists may not be household names, Emlyn Resetarits...
Die-hard coffee fans and dedicated tea lovers have been debating for decades. Coffee addicts swear they can’t survive a day without coffee, and tea-lovers argue that tea is the healthier way to get...
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of The Texan’s series “Raising Voices,” which highlights issues of diversity at UT. Stories are produced in partnership with UT’s...
Tucked away in a fourth-floor office, psychology research coordinator Eunjung Lee-Furman holds an aged binder containing documents that detail the history of student subjects in UT psychology research...
Virtual spiders may actually be beneficial to those who fear the eight-legged arachnids.
In a recent study, UT psychology researchers teamed up with the UT3D program to develop an immersive, 3D video...
A new bacterial discovery by UT researchers could help you spend more of your vacations hitting the beach instead of the toilet.
UT and the Naval Medical Research Center collaborated to investigate...
The war between carbs and bread is dead.
Despite recent hype in popular media, UT experts crack down on the keto diet and say that a high-fat, low-carb diet may not be as effective as people think.
According...
A new innovation developed by UT researchers involving guts on a microchip may end the era of lab rats and petri dishes in the study of human disease.
Woojung Shin, biomedical engineering...
