Longhorns Launch Startup to Address the Next Frontier of Renting

Student Entrepreneur Acceleration & Launch (SEAL) 2021 participants Patil, Khan and Betori are making waves with Explorastay, a tech startup that helps renters find one-to-11-month rentals around the world….

New Method Makes Vital Fertilizer Element in a More Sustainable Way

AUSTIN, Texas — Urea is a critical element found in everything from fertilizers to skin care products. Large-scale production of urea, which is naturally…

New 6G Research Center Unites Industry Leaders and UT Wireless Experts

AUSTIN, Texas — Teaming up with industry titans including Samsung, NVIDIA, and more, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are launching 6G@UT,…

MasSpec Pen Shows Promise in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

AUSTIN, Texas — A diagnostic tool called the MasSpec Pen has been tested for the first time in pancreatic cancer patients during surgery. The device is…

Solar Power Innovator Named Director of Energy Institute

AUSTIN, Texas — Brian Korgel, a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, will be the next director of the Energy Institute at The…

Optical Tweezer Technology Tweaked to Overcome Dangers of Heat

AUSTIN, Texas — Three years ago, Arthur Ashkin won the Nobel Prize for inventing optical tweezers, which use light in the form of a high-powered laser…

A Lab for Innovation

UT’s Austin Technology Incubator supports local businesses, prepares student leaders of the future…

Jason McLellan Named 2021 Texas Inventor of the Year

New Training Videos Help Police, Prosecutors and Advocates Respond to Sexual Assault

AUSTIN, Texas — Law enforcement officers, prosecutors and victims services professionals have a new set of tools to better understand and respond to…

Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Has a Glowing New Weapon

AUSTIN, Texas — In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by…

Our Immune Systems Blanket the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein with Antibodies

AUSTIN, Texas — The most complete picture yet is coming into focus of how antibodies produced in people who effectively fight off SARS-CoV-2 work to…

UT Student Startup Wheelist Helps the Automobile Industry Ramp Up for the Future

With assistance from the LaunchPad’s summer accelerator and UT’s Student Entrepreneur Acceleration and Launch, entrepreneurs Connor Phelps and Javier Huerta started Wheelist….