Research
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Researchers Receive $15 Million for Biofuel Crop Study
A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study a native prairie grass, including how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy amid global climate change.
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3 out of 4 Believe Climate Change Is Occurring; Views of Key Energy Issues Are Shaped by Partisan Politics
More than 3 out of 4 Americans (76 percent) now believe that climate change is occurring, up from 68 percent just one year ago, according to the latest UT Energy Poll.
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Healing Through Harmony
Meet HARMONY, a first-of-its-kind, two-armed, robotic rehabilitation exoskeleton. Harmony provides a new method of high-quality, data-driven therapy to patients suffering from spinal and neurological injuries, including strokes.
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Goodenough Shares $1 Million Global Prize for Innovation
John B. Goodenough will receive the Samson Prize, totaling $1 million. It is the world’s largest monetary prize awarded in the field of alternative fuels and is granted to scientists who have made critical advancements.
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Unmanaged Fishing at Spawning Sites Put Species, Economies at Risk
Countries worldwide may soon see mass species loss and challenges for local fishing economies if predictable breeding events where fish gather in large numbers remain unprotected from overfishing, scientists say.
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Research Identifies Career Resources That Millennials Need in Changing Economy
Doing Innovation, a research project at UT Austin, has launched a multimedia website that examines how millennials are using new technology, developing creative communities and finding innovative paths to respond to the changing economy.
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Going the Distance: Students Compete in Solar Decathlon
More than 60 students from The University of Texas at Austin and the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Germany have spent two years imagining how to power our homes and keep our day-to-day lives running on light from the sun. Now, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, the solar-powered home they…
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Flame Retardant Breakthrough is Naturally Derived and Nontoxic
Researchers at UT Austin have created a new nontoxic flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic.
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UT Austin Receives $4M to Develop Techniques for Brain Imaging & Manipulation
Researchers at UT Austin will receive three grants totaling $4 million to develop techniques for imaging and manipulating the activity of neurons in the brain, research that will help scientists explore the mechanisms of addiction, obesity, fear and many other brain states and disorders.
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Texas Engineering Team Wins Emmy Award for Video Quality Tool
The Television Academy announced today that Cockrell School of Engineering professor Alan Bovik and his team of former students and collaborators will be honored with a 2015 Engineering Emmy Award.
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Wearable Electronic Health Patches May Now Be Cheaper and Easier to Make
Cockrell School of Engineering researchers have invented a method for making inexpensive and high-performing wearable electronic patches that monitor the body’s vital signs for health and performance tracking.
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High-tech Drilling: Improving the Energy Industry
“You can be an environmentalist and join the oil and gas industry.”
