AUSTIN, Texas — Austin-based Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) announced its executive board of directors, which will provide strategic guidance to the consortium as a national leader in semiconductor research, manufacturing…
What do trunks filled with books, scholastic competitions and petroleum engineering manuals have in common? There’s no punchline; these things are all part of The University of Texas at Austin’s Extended Campus (EC), which has been…
UT professors Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler set working-class artifacts pirouetting through space in spectacular video installation at Austin’s Moody Amphitheater
As technologies powered by artificial intelligence become an increasingly prominent part of everyday life, a new podcast from The University of Texas at Austin aims to bridge the gap between tech experts and everyone who stands to be…
Important scientific finds don’t always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of a 6-centimeter-wide, nondescript mass of bone and teeth that helped a scientist at The…
AUSTIN, Texas — Forty-foot-tall burnt orange letters with white trim spelling “T-E-X-A-S” now span the center of Guadalupe Street as part of The University of Texas’ ongoing efforts to enhance the campus experience for its 53,000 students.…
AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas at Austin and Texas Athletics are thrilled to announce an epic all-day celebration commemorating the Longhorns’ inaugural day in the Southeastern Conference. The SEC Celebration will take place…
AUSTIN, Texas — Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost the performance and energy efficiency of computer operating systems will be led by a team from The University of Texas at Austin, thanks to a major grant from the U.S.…
Sea otters are one of the few animals that use tools to access their food, and a new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools — most of whom are female — are able to eat larger prey and reduce tooth damage when their…
Powerful new artificial intelligence models sometimes, quite famously, get things wrong — whether hallucinating false information or memorizing others’ work and offering it up as their own. To address the latter, researchers led by a team…
In February, the University launched Change Starts With Us — an employee-focused campaign designed to bring together key strategic plan initiatives and programs as an extension of Change Starts Here. The campaign, co-led by Roger Cude,…
Even in dry times, Waller Creek on The University of Texas at Austin campus is never without water. That’s because a significant portion of the water that flows through it — anywhere from 25% to 50% — can be traced to wastewater from leaky…
Julie Schell, assistant vice provost and director of the Office of Academic Technology, joined President Jay Hartzell at the Longhorn Family Partners Spring Meeting to discuss how artificial intelligence in the classroom relates to UT’s…
A deadly strain of cholera bacteria that emerged in Indonesia back in 1961 continues to spread widely to this day, claiming thousands of lives around the world every year, sickening millions — and, with its persistence, baffling scientists…
A deadly strain of cholera bacteria that emerged in Indonesia back in 1961 continues to spread widely to this day, claiming thousands of lives around the world every year, sickening millions — and, with its persistence, baffling scientists…
As a student on the Forty Acres, Lindsey Hutchison fell in love with the natural beauty of UT’s vibrant campus. Now as a staff member, she’s made a career out of keeping the very same campus green and waste-free, helping the University…
AUSTIN, Texas — Discovery to Impact at The University of Texas at Austin has invested $250,000 in NALA Membranes, a UT-affiliated startup advancing water purification through the development of a new class of game-changing chlorine…
AUSTIN, Texas — A powerful new supercomputer that will enable dynamic open science research projects in the U.S. is in full production in the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. For more than a…
AUSTIN, Texas — A foundation formed 28 years ago to attract a higher education center to the city of Taylor, just northeast of Austin, has given The University of Texas at Austin a 68-acre tract that will be developed into The University…
AUSTIN, Texas —Jacqueline Jones, professor emerita in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for history for her book “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of…