Research
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Texas Students Win IBM Watson Competition With App Expanding Access to Social Services
[caption id=”attachment_50010″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”The University of Texas at Austin team flashes the school's "hook 'em horns" sign as they celebrate their first place win in the Watson University Competition. Held at IBM Watson headquarters in NYC, the team worked over the course of a semester to develop a Watson-based app, CallScout, that could improve…
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Short Words Predict Academic Success
AUSTIN, Texas The smallest, most forgettable words in admissions essays can tell us in advance how students will perform in college, a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin reveals.
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UT Austin One of Six Top Research Universities to Earn 2015 Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification
The University of Texas at Austin has received a 2015 Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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New Director Named at Center for Politics and Governance
Ryan Streeter, a long-serving government official at the state and federal levels, has been named director of the Center for Politics and Governance at The University of Texas at Austin.
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McCombs Scholarship Provides Money and Expertise to Student Entrepreneurs
Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs (TVL) will award two scholarships valued at $50,000 each during a shark-tank style pitch competition Feb. 20, 2015, as part of their third annual TVL Scholarship Competition for student entrepreneurs who pursue their MBA degrees at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
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Computer Scientists at UT Austin Crack Code for Redrawing Bird Family Tree
Siavash Mirarab, computer science graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, helped develop a new technique for estimating evolutionary relationships that allowed researchers to redraw the bird family tree.
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New Study Measures Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Production and Offers Insights into Two Large Sources
Researchers find a small percentage of wells accounts for the majority of emissions.
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Brain Specimens were Disposed of by Environmental Workers in 2002
A preliminary university investigation has revealed that UT environmental health and safety officials disposed of multiple brain specimens in approximately 2002 in accordance with protocols concerning biological waste.
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Alcohol Abuse Linked to Newly Identified Gene Network
AUSTIN, Texas Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have identified a network of genes that appear to work together in determining alcohol dependence. The findings, which could lead to future treatments and therapies for alcoholics and possibly help doctors screen for alcoholism, are being published this week in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
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DNA Reveals Local Adoption of New Technologies, Not Migration, Caused Cultural Changes in Ancient Illinois
AUSTIN, Texas DNA samples from North Americans who lived more 1,000 years ago in Illinois reveal that rapid cultural changes came from acceptance of new practices rather than from a population influx into the region, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin and Indiana University.
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Building Blocks of Democracy: Now in Your Web Browser
The Constitute Project, developed by government professor Zachary Elkins, brings constitutions from all over the world into one handy, online resource.
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Five from UT Austin Elected Fellows of National Science Organization
AUSTIN, Texas A neuroscientist, a chemical engineer, a mechanical engineer, a molecular biologist and a pharmaceutical researcher who are faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
