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Five New Career-Boosting One-Year Degrees

What can you learn in a year? Plenty, it turns out. New one-year, highly specialized master’s degrees allow students to get in, learn a lot and leave with in-demand skills. Learn more.
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Researchers Take Down Spam One Day at a Time

Ever wonder where all that spam in your inbox comes from? SpamRankings.net, a research project, tracks daily changes in spam trends worldwide. Read more. [Infographic]
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Law School Clinic Finds Major Flaws in City of Austin Policies for Addressing Dangerous Apartment Conditions

A recent report has found major flaws with the City of Austin’s policies for addressing dangerous apartment conditions to protect the health and safety of tenants. The report, “Addressing Problem Properties: Legal and Policy Tools for a Safer Rundberg and Safer Austin,” was released by The University of Texas School of Law’s Entrepreneurship and Community…
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A Social Network for Genes?

In the same way Facebook recommends friends and Spotify suggests music, UT researchers are using links between genes to determine which ones cause disease. Learn more.
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Online Learning Must be Faculty-Driven, Innovative, UT Austin President Says

University of Texas at Austin president Bill Powers has developed five guiding principles for using online technology in higher education that can help students learn more effectively and serve as a national model as universities navigate a rapidly changing landscape.
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Farish Fund Supports Collaboration to Study Plaques That Cause Most Heart Attacks

The William Stamps Farish Fund in Houston has donated $400,000 to a collaboration between the the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin and the
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Engineers Improve Recycling System in Hydraulic Fracturing to Save Water and Energy

Chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed high-efficiency, durable filters to improve mobile water recycling systems used in hydraulic fracturing, the oil and gas drilling process known as fracking.
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When Will My Computer Understand Me?

Humans get the difference between “charging” a battery and “charging” a client, but computers may not. Linguist Katrin Erk has a new way for computers to learn. [Video]
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Chemist Awarded $1.1 Million NIH Grant to Model “Long-Time” Molecular Movements

A University of Texas at Austin chemist has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand research modeling “long-time” biological processes down to the last atom.
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Study Shows Jim Crow-Era Segregation Persists in Texas Schools

A first-of-its-kind study from researchers in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin shows that, in addition to being isolated by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, English language learners in Texas schools also are separated by language, suffering what has been term
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Look Up: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 11-12

The annual August Perseid meteor shower will put on its best show after midnight on Sunday and Monday, say StarDate’s editors. Watch a video animation of the light show.
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A Founding Research Fellow Appointed Director of IC² Institute

AUSTIN, Texas Robert A. Peterson, associate vice president of research at The University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed director of the university’s IC² Institute by Juan M. Sanchez, vice president for research at the university. The appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2013.

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