Research

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing will use a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a new collaborative research center designed to improve the health of individuals, families and communities.

The Department of Defense has awarded $17 million to 11 U.S. public and private institutions including The University of Texas at Austin to support advances in traumatic brain injury research.

[caption id="attachment_48126" align="aligncenter" width="738" caption="The study site is located north of Jakobshavn Isbræ, a large outlet glacier in western Greenland. Icebergs calved from Jakobshavn Isbræ (one pictured here) fill the fjord and are visible from Ilulissat, a nearby town. Photo Lauren Andrews."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas A team led by scientists at the University of Texas at…

A group of first-year students are examining the viability of switchgrass as an alternative energy source. Watch a video about diving into research through the Freshman Research Initiative.

Producing oil through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses similar amounts of water on average as producing oil by conventional means, according to a new study by The University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology.

The University of Texas at Austin will host the world’s leading conference on carbon capture and storage research, the 12th international Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies conference (GHGT-12), Oct. 5-9, 2014.

[caption id="attachment_47959" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Common Murre on SE Farallon Island eating an anchovy. Photo: Bryan Black/Univ. of Texas at Austin."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  In findings of relevance to conservationists and the fishing industry, new research links short-term reductions in growth and reproduction of marine animals off the California coast to increasing variability in the strength of…

AUSTIN, Texas  Yuebing Zheng, a mechanical engineering assistant professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was selected for the prestigious Beckman Young Investigator Award.

A free mobile app called TX Invasives is now available from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin for identifying harmful non-native plant, insect and other invasive species statewide.