Research

The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host “Enabling Biomedical Discoveries with Digital Data, Supercomputing and Visualization” on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 5:45 p.m.

Astrophysicist Karl Gebhardt made international headlines in late November with the discovery of the largest black hole in the universe, a behemoth that’s 17 billion times heavier than the Sun.

A chemistry professor and his team of undergraduate researchers are benefiting from $165,000 in funding from an unusual source: a class-action lawsuit over fraudulently labeled wine.

Seven faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

Astronomers have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory to measure the mass of what may be the most massive black hole yet 17 billion times our sun’s mass in galaxy NGC 1277. The unusual black hole makes up 14 percent of its galaxy’s mass, rather than the usual…

A team of University of Texas at Austin undergraduates, mentored by staffers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, won the seventh annual Student Cluster Competition this year at the Supercomputing ’12 (SC12) conference in Salt Lake City. SC12 has been the seminal international conference for high-performance computing (HPC) for the past 24 years.

Jimmy Wadman went from failing to teaching in Chemistry 301, a course transformed from massive lecture to interactive experience. Watch his story.

One of the most popular intervention therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders lacks scientific support according to a literature review published by professor Mark O’Reilly.

Andrew Dillon, dean of the School of Information (iSchool) at The University of Texas at Austin, was inducted as president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASISandT) during the organization’s annual meeting in Baltimore on Oct. 31.