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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two cohorts of 7th-9th graders from across Central Texas attended the Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS) camp at UT’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus in North Austin to experience what it would be like to pursue a career in a STEM field.

A new Arts Leadership Curatorial and Collections Internship offered by Art Galleries at Black Studies provides opportunities to enter the fascinating, but highly competitive, world of the museum curator.

Adm. Christopher W. Grady, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited The University of Texas at Austin for a detailed review and collaboration of the research, policy and innovations related to national security led by university researchers.