Research
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Austin Technology Leader Laura Kilcrease Named 2012-13 McCombs Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Laura Kilcrease, a 25-year veteran of the Austin technology scene, is the 2012-13 entrepreneur-in-residence at the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.
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University of Texas at Austin Study Measures Methane Emissions Released from Natural Gas Production
A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.
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New Psychology Study Reveals Unexamined Costs of Rape
Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are commonly associated with sexual assault, but a new study from The University of Texas at Austin shows that female victims suffer from a wide spectrum of debilitating effects that may often go unnoticed or undiagnosed.
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UT Austin Opens Lab Crucial to Drug Development Process
The University of Texas at Austin is opening a laboratory that fills a critical gap in the process of developing new drugs and biotechnology products.
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University to Open Laboratory Critical to Drug Development
Opening of UT Advance, a laboratory for conducting U.S. Food and Drug Administration-mandated studies that allow new drug products to move from research to human clinical trials. The facility is open to university and private-sector researchers.
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IBM Computing Expert to Discuss Potential for Big Data to Solve Society’s Challenges
The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host “More Than You Think You Know: Analyzing the Data Around Us” with John B. Gordon, IBM Watson Solutions
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David Foster Wallace Materials Related to “The Pale King” Now Open For Research
Materials related to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel “The Pale King” (April 2011) are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Media Advisory: Panel, ‘The Economy in 2013 Now What?’
Tom Gilligan, economist and dean of the McCombs School of Business, will share the 30,000-foot view of America’s economy in 2012
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Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing’s Centenary
An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against.
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NEH Awards $235,000 to Improve Accessibility to Historical Audio Files
A professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to develop the tools to sort and analyze recordings of poetry, speeches and folk tales in much the way that music files are already routinely analyzed.
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Pediatric Geneticist Searches for Role of Environmental Contaminants in Birth Defects with $1.2 Million Grant from EPA
The effects of environmental contaminants on fetal growth and development is the subject of new research by Richard Finnell, Robert Cabrera and a team of researchers in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin using a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
