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.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin has long supported Nobel Prize recipient David Baker's pioneering work in developing methods for using computers to predict how proteins fold, whereby their shape reveals important reactive properties such as electrostatic potential and hydrophobicity.

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.

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.

The start of a new academic year seems to usher in a renewed sense of possibility. Campus is buzzing with classes, research projects and public programs in full swing. In the thick of the Year of AI at UT Austin, Good Systems researchers and partners continue to ask the big ethics questions at the…

A new artificial intelligence model developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin paves the way for more effective and less toxic treatments and new preventive strategies in medicine. The AI model informs the design of protein-based therapies and vaccines by leveraging the underlying logic from nature’s evolutionary processes.

Good Systems would like to thank Sherri Greenberg (LBJ School of Public Affairs) for her leadership as chair of the Good Systems Executive Team in 2023 – 24. Greenberg will continue to serve on the Executive Team. The grand challenge now welcomes Luis Sentis (Cockrell School of Engineering) as…

The University of Texas at Austin's Good Systems program is pleased to announce advancements in its research on critical cross-cutting themes in ethical AI. Last year, Good Systems, a leader in interdisciplinary research on the ethical development and use of artificial intelligence (AI),…

The University of Texas at Austin has been chosen to lead a new institute that harnesses artificial intelligence to explore some of the leading mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and the fundamentals related to the search for life. Housed in UT’s Oden Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering, the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins will be funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation.

Planet Texas 2050 would like to thank Paola Passalacqua (professor, Cockrell School of Engineering) for her leadership as chair of PT2050’s Theme Organizing Committee (TOC) for the past two years. She passes the torch back to Katherine Lieberknecht (associate professor, School of Architecture, who…