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
OVPR

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.
December 19, 2024
Planet Texas 2050

RISE and Shine

From the Panhandle plains to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas’ vast and varied landscapes — deserts, prairies, wetlands and forests — are as rich in biodiversity as they are in beauty. Yet these ecosystems face mounting threats. Rapid urbanization is fragmenting habitats, while extreme weather events —…
December 18, 2024
OVPR

UT Secures Two Coveted Collaborative Research Grants From the National Endowment for the Humanities

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded two highly-competitive and prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Collaborative Research program for projects that aim preserve our culture and history and lay the foundation for a more just future.
December 12, 2024
Good Systems

Behind the Lens

Amid the hustle and bustle of cities across the country, a largely invisible network of surveillance cameras silently observes the ebb and flow of urban life. These cameras, embedded into traffic lights, streetlamps and even police body armor, promise to enhance public safety, streamline urban…
December 4, 2024
Featured UT News

Ink-Based E-tattoo Can Decode Brainwaves

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Los Angeles, have developed a conductive ink that can be printed directly on the surface of a patient’s head and measure their brainwaves.

December 4, 2024
OVPR

Three Faculty Members Honored with 2024 University Research Excellence Awards

Three scholars have been recognized with a University Research Excellence Award, one of the most prominent symbols of peer recognition at the University of Texas at Austin.
November 25, 2024
KXAN

Landslides and earthquakes could soon be predictable thanks to UT partnership

Landslides cause more than a billion dollars in damage in the United States each year, according to the American Geoscience Institute. Predicting them could soon be a lot easier.

November 22, 2024
Featured UT News

UT Ranks 14th Globally for Interdisciplinary Science

The University of Texas at Austin is among the top universities in the world for solving society’s most difficult scientific challenges using an interdisciplinary approach, bridging knowledge and discovery across multiple fields of study to focus on a single problem.