April 7, 2025
OVPR

Celebrating Excellence: Top Researchers Recognized for World-Changing Work

An engineer who developed technology to measure methane emissions and a scholar who is a driving force in using scientific evidence to improve children’s reading comprehension have been named the 2025 recipients of The University of Texas at Austin President’s Research Impact Award.

April 3, 2025
Featured UT News

New Research Boosts Future Whooping Cough Vaccines

New research from The University of Texas at Austin could aid in improving whooping cough vaccines to once again push this disease toward eradication by targeting two key weaknesses in the infection.

March 17, 2025
SciTechDaily

$8.4 Billion: Enormous Cache of Rare Earth Elements Discovered in America

New research from the University of Texas at Austin reveals that a vast supply of coal ash contains enough rare earth elements to significantly strengthen the nation’s reserves without the need for additional mining.

March 13, 2025
Food Safety Magazine

Scientists Discover Antibodies That Could Lead to Broadly Effective Norovirus Vaccine

Scientists have recently discovered antibodies that can neutralize a wide range of norovirus strains, which could lead to the development of a broadly effective vaccine for the foodborne pathogen, as well as new therapeutic antibodies for treating gastroenteritis caused by norovirus.

March 3, 2025
KXAN

AirPods dying? UT professor discovers microenvironment that may be responsible

A tiny microenvironment in your wireless earbuds may be the reason they’re dying so quickly, according to new research from the University of Texas.

February 24, 2025
Featured UT News

From Scraps to Sips: Everyday Biomass Produces Drinking Water from Thin Air

Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells and many other natural materials are key ingredients in a new system that can pull drinkable water out of thin air developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin.

February 18, 2025
Featured UT News

Six UT Faculty Members Awarded Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships

Six University of Texas at Austin faculty members were announced today as recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, putting UT Austin at the forefront among public universities boasting winners this year.

February 6, 2025
Featured UT News

Improved Brain Decoder Holds Promise for Communication in People With Aphasia

A pair of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated an AI-based tool that can translate a person’s thoughts into continuous text, without requiring the person to comprehend spoken words.

January 29, 2025
Defense Research Development

UT Leads Defense Research in Robotics

Since 2019, Army Futures Command’s collaboration with TEXAS Robotics has led to a novel method for rapid adaptation and integration of robotics and AI systems research.

January 8, 2025
OVPR

Design Thinking Sparks Novel Research Among Newly Tenured Faculty

Each fall, newly tenured UT faculty from across campus meet each other for the first time and learn how to design research through a unique retreat. Associate Professor Experimental (APX) has been ongoing for seven years and the ripple effect is far-reaching.