December 1, 2023
OVPR

Mesoamerican Beauty

While technologies have advanced rapidly, archaeological digs remain as laborious today as they were a century ago. New tools have accelerated the pace at which one might be able to find what lies beneath the ground, but they haven’t eliminated the need for getting down on your hands and knees and delicately assessing what might be there.
November 29, 2023
Featured UT News

Improving Approvals of Drug Patents Is Focus of New Research

How to improve the process of pharmaceutical patent approvals is the focus of a new study by a researcher at The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Law. The result could potentially save consumers billions of dollars from lower prices and increased access to medications.
November 28, 2023
Featured UT News

Compact Accelerator Technology Achieves Major Energy Milestone

Particle accelerators hold great potential for semiconductor applications, medical imaging and therapy, and research in materials, energy and medicine. But conventional accelerators require plenty of elbow room — kilometers — making them expensive and limiting their presence to a handful of national labs and universities.
November 21, 2023
Featured UT News

Bacteria Store Memories and Pass Them on for Generations

Scientists have discovered that bacteria can create something like memories about when to form strategies that can cause dangerous infections in people, such as resistance to antibiotics and bacterial swarms when millions of bacteria come together on a single surface.
November 9, 2023
Planet Texas 2050

“Youth Perspectives on the Environment" Photovoice Exhibit Launching at Pharr Memorial Library November 15th

The Pharr Memorial Library is proud to announce the opening of a thought-provoking new exhibition, "Looking to the Future: Youth Perspectives on the Environment," presented by the Coalition for Youth, Health, and the Environment, in collaboration with Texas Children in Nature (TCiNN) and The…
November 8, 2023
Featured UT News

New Technique Could Improve GPS

A new scientific technique could significantly improve the reference frames that millions of people rely upon each day when using GPS navigation services, according to a recently published article in Radio Science.
November 7, 2023
OVPR

2023 Co-op Research Excellence and Hamilton Book Award Winners Announced

The Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors and the University Co-operative Society are pleased to announce and congratulate the 2023 winners of the University Co-op Research Excellence Awards and the winners of the 2023 Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards.
October 24, 2023
Planet Texas 2050

Humanizing Our Planet

Congratulations to the recipients of the inaugural Planet Texas 2050 + Humanities Institute Faculty Learning Community awards. These awards are the result of a recent open call that Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) — an interdisciplinary program focused on climate resilience, population growth, and…
October 24, 2023
Whole Communities–Whole Health

Health Kick: a Q&A with New Whole Communities–Whole Health Chair Mike Mackert

"From the moment I learned about Whole Communities–Whole Health, I was excited to join this team," Michael Mackert says. Now, five years later, the health communication professor is the steering committee chair of Whole Communities–Whole Health (WCWH), UT Austin’s grand challenge dedicated to…
September 27, 2023
OVPR

Research Administrators Celebrated for Invaluable Service to Research Enterprise

Research administrators usually work behind the scenes of the research enterprise, they were in the spotlight at the National Research Administration Day Celebration. The event is held annually by the UT Austin Association of Research Administrators and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors.