Research

Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are commonly associated with sexual assault, but a new study from The University of Texas at Austin shows that female victims suffer from a wide spectrum of debilitating effects that may often go unnoticed or undiagnosed.

The University of Texas at Austin is opening a laboratory that fills a critical gap in the process of developing new drugs and biotechnology products.

Opening of UT Advance, a laboratory for conducting U.S. Food and Drug Administration-mandated studies that allow new drug products to move from research to human clinical trials. The facility is open to university and private-sector researchers.

The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host “More Than You Think You Know: Analyzing the Data Around Us” with John B. Gordon, IBM Watson Solutions

Materials related to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel “The Pale King” (April 2011) are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

A professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to develop the tools to sort and analyze recordings of poetry, speeches and folk tales in much the way that music files are already routinely analyzed.

The effects of environmental contaminants on fetal growth and development is the subject of new research by Richard Finnell, Robert Cabrera and a team of researchers in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin using a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).