Buckman Center Will Allow Students to Design Engaging, Immersive Experiences in New Lab Space

AUSTIN, Texas — Central Texas philanthropists Karl and Nelda Buckman have pledged a significant gift to build an immersive media lab to support students…

Texas Institute for Electronics Would Help Restore U.S. Chipmaking Leadership

AUSTIN, Texas — With semiconductor devices and systems now affecting all aspects of daily life, demand for such technologies has soared in recent years….

New Type of Vaccines Could Help Against More Viral Illnesses

AUSTIN, Texas – Some of the same researchers at The University of Texas at Austin who created a key to all coronavirus vaccines used in the U.S. have made…

Historic Campaign Supports UT’s Vision to Be Highest-Impact Public Research University

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is publicly kicking off the largest philanthropic campaign in the history of Texas higher education and…

Gene Editing Gets Safer Thanks to Redesigned Protein

AUSTIN, Texas — One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the…

Century-Old Technology Inspires Method for Early Warning Tsunami and Earthquake Detection

Experts to Unpack the Future of Energy Research and Technology at UT Energy Week

AUSTIN, Texas — Energy experts at the forefront of issues such as the energy transition, mineral supply, industrial decarbonization and the future of…

New Method Can Disarm Antibiotic Resistance in Deadly Bacteria

AUSTIN, Texas — Scientists think they may have uncovered a whole new approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which, if successful, would help…

Versatile ‘Nanocrystal Gel’ Could Enable Advances in Energy, Defense and Telecommunications

AUSTIN, Texas — New applications in energy, defense and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team at The University of Texas at Austin created…

UT Startup Hopes to Remove Language Barriers With Peer-Reviewed Medical Translation

One morning, Dr. Jennifer Hole was surprised when the parents of one of her 5-year-old patients unexpectedly brought doughnuts to her office, crying and…

Texas Engineers License Carbon Capture Technology to Honeywell

AUSTIN, Texas — Honeywell plans to commercialize carbon capture technology created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that holds the…

UT Austin Harnesses Power of Biology in Partnership with Army Research Laboratory