October 22, 2024
OVPR

Research & Creative Grants Awarded to Nine Faculty Projects

Nine University of Texas Austin faculty members representing a variety of disciplines, colleges and schools have been selected as recipients of the 2024-2025 Research & Creative Grants.
September 30, 2024
OVPR

Living for the City: Municipal Impact Driven by World-Class Research

A formalized partnership between City of Austin officials and researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has fast-tracked collaborations between the two entities to help find solutions to problems affecting us all – from improving road safety and ensuring water security to protecting Austin’s vibrant cultural scene.
September 26, 2024
OVPR

Research Administrators Celebrated for Essential Role in Advancing World-Changing Discoveries

Behind every world-changing discovery made at The University of Texas at Austin is a research administrator who navigated administrative complexities and hurdles required of a sponsored research project. Two exemplary research administrators were recently honored at the National Research Administration Day Celebration.
September 6, 2024
The Guardian

How the maelstrom under Greenland’s glaciers could slow future sea level rise

A pioneering mission into a mysterious and violent world led by the Jackson School of Geosciences may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation
September 3, 2024
Featured UT News

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly related SARS-like coronaviruses that infect other animals.
August 7, 2024
Featured UT News

Drug Trial for Rare Fetal Blood Disease Shows Promise for Less Invasive Approach

Data from a new investigational drug that could alter the standard treatment for a rare blood disease suggests it has the potential to delay or prevent anemia and the need for intrauterine blood transfusions in babies who are at high risk for the condition, according to a clinical trial conducted by The University of Texas at Austin.
July 31, 2024
Featured UT News

Astronomers Use AI To Find Elusive Stars ‘Gobbling Up’ Planets

By using a novel form of artificial intelligence, a team at University of Texas at Austin has accelerated the process of identifying "polluted" white dwarf stars that are actively consuming planets in their orbit,
July 18, 2024
Houston Chronicle

UT-Austin awarded $840M to advance Department of Defense technology

The University of Texas at Austin will receive $840 million to build a facility for manufacturing “the next generation” of microelectronics used in Department of Defense systems.
July 18, 2024
Featured UT News

UT’s Texas Institute for Electronics Awarded $840M To Build a DOD Microelectronics Manufacturing Center, Advance U.S. Semiconductor Industry

Seeking to ensure America’s national security and global military leadership, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has selected the Texas Institute for Electronics at The University of Texas at Austin to develop the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense.
July 17, 2024
Featured UT News

Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory

In a study published in Nature, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) demonstrated that the layered multiferroic material nickel iodide (NiI2) may be the best candidate yet for devices that are extremely fast and compact.