Health & Medicine
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Suicide Prevention Week to Showcase Social Media as a Life-Saving Tool
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death for college students. That’s why the Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC) is engaging the campus community via social media and other interactive tools during its fourth annual Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 24-28). The goal is to highlight awareness and resources available to students, faculty members…
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Hogg Foundation Grants More Than $700,000 to Advance Integrated Health Care in Texas
The Hogg Foundation at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded $720,950 to support the planning and implementation of integrated behavioral and physical health care programs at 10 organizations across Texas.
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UT Game Changers: Andy Ellington, Do I Really Need a Doctor for That?
Andy Ellington: Do I Really Need a Doctor for That? Technology Should Allow Us to Diagnose Ourselves.
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University Health Services Ranks Among Top 3 in the Nation
The Princeton Review has ranked University Health Services (UHS), part of the Division of Student Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, as the third-best college health service in the United States. The ranking is part of the Princeton Review’s newly released 2013 edition of The Best 377 Colleges. University Health Services moves up…
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Hogg Foundation Awards $2 Million in Grants to Benefit Mental Health Services for Houston-area Children
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has awarded about $2,056,000 in grants to continue developing and strengthening mental health services and supports for children, youth and families in Houston and Harris County.
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Hogg Foundation Awards Grant to Establish El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin has selected The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to receive $550,000 over five years to create the El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium. The consortium internship positions will allow doctoral psychology students to perform one year of supervised training, a requirement…
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The Pleasure Principle
New neuroscience research that shows cocaine abuse hijacks the brain’s reward system could lead to new drug-therapy interventions for addiction.
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Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery
From image processing to 3-D modeling to search, computer and computational science help improve the drug discovery pipeline.
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Memories Serve as Tools for Learning and Decision-Making, New Study Shows
When humans learn, their brains relate new information with past experiences to derive new knowledge, according to psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Pandemic Preparedness
How UT-created computer models can help officials prepare for pandemics.
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Old Drug Holds New Promise
Exciting new findings in UT’s neurobiology labs suggest that rapamycin, an FDA-approved immunosuppressant used to control organ rejection in transplant patients, may be an effective therapy for Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, and even autism.
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Ten Tenure-Track Assistant Professors Receive Mental Health Research Grants in Texas
Ten professors in Texas have been awarded grants by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to conduct innovative academic research in mental health.
