Research
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Daily Online Testing Boosts College Performance and Reduces Achievement Gaps, Study Shows
More low-income students are attending college than ever before, but many of them are ill prepared for the challenges of higher learning. Now University of Texas at Austin researchers are finding ways to level the higher-education playing field with a new online learning model.
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Milner Wins Inventor of the Year Award
The biomedical engineering professor was honored for his development of light-based therapeutic and diagnostic procedures that help doctors detect diseases like glaucoma and heart disease. [Video]
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TACC to Deploy Maverick for Interactive, Remote Visualization and Data Analysis
New system will make sense of Big Science Data for researchers in the U.S. open science community
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High School Students Forge Stronger, More Positive Friendships in Shared Classes, Study Shows
Teenagers continue to roam in cliques in high school, as they have for generations. Yet according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin and Michigan State University, high school students are not choosing friends from certain categories, such as “jocks,” “goths” or “A-listers.” Instead, they are forging friendships in the types…
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UT Researchers Use Simple Scaling Theory to Better Predict Gas Production in Barnett Shale Wells
*Editor’s note: The fourth paragraph in the earlier version of this release has been removed. AUSTIN, Texas Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a simple scaling theory to estimate gas production from hydraulically fractured wells in the Barnett Shale.
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Tower Orange for McCombs Accounting Team
The university will celebrate the McCombs School of Business student team who placed first in an accounting case competition. The Tower will be lit entirely orange Nov. 18.
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UT Austin Researchers Grow Large Graphene Crystals That Have Exceptional Electrical Properties
When it comes to the growth of graphene an ultrathin, ultrastrong, all-carbon material it is survival of the fittest, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Undergraduate Students Have New Opportunity to Explore Energy Careers at The University of Texas at Austin
An increased interest in energy careers has sparked the development of a specialized undergraduate energy path for students at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Ransom Center Launches Online Digital Image Collection
[caption id="attachment_43142" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="This page in the scrapbook highlights an engraved notice for American magician S. S. Baldwin's performances in Peking, China, in 1879, pasted above a review for an appearance at the Academy of Music (city and date unknown)."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The…
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New Study Decodes Brain’s Process for Decision Making
When faced with a choice, the brain retrieves specific traces of memories, rather than a generalized overview of past experiences, from its mental Rolodex, according to new brain-imaging research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Popular ‘Door-in-the-Face’ Persuasion Strategy Can Sometimes Backfire, Study Shows
A manipulation strategy often used in marketing and fundraising known as “Door-in-the-Face” could backfire among less concrete thinkers, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Unique McCombs MBA Scholarship Offered to Entrepreneurs
Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs will provide two scholarships to entrepreneurs to develop startup ventures while pursuing their MBA degrees. The scholarships will be awarded to the winners of a shark-tank-style pitch competition at The University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 15, 2014.
