Research
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New Master’s Degree Trains Business Leaders in Understanding Human Behavior
A new Master of Arts degree at The University of Texas at Austin draws on the liberal arts, technology programs and other disciplines to train business and nonprofit leaders who want a better understanding of how human behavior and experience relates to today’s global marketplace.
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Opening the Black Box on Education
The LBJ School’s Center for Health and Social Policy examines high-stakes accountability and the future of Texas education policy at Monday’s education policy forum.
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Young Texans Gather to Explore Causes and Solutions for Low Civic Engagement
The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS and KUT News 90.5 are hosting an interactive dialogue among young Texans those who are engaged and those who aren’t about the causes of low civic participation in Central Texas and how to boost it.
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UT Game Changers: Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Courting the Ladies…Women in the 2012 Election
Victoria DeFrancesco Soto: Courting the Ladies…Women in the 2012 Election
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CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk
Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists in the U.S. and a specialist in Denmark have created a lifelike reconstruction of an ancient mollusk, offering a vivid portrait of a creature that lived about 390 million years ago, and answering questions about its place in the tree of life, as described in…
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Systems Biologist Receives $2.5 Million Pioneer Award for Genome Research
Marcotte’s project focuses on what he sees as the next step in “next-generation” genome sequencing technology.
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Ancient Mollusk Returns to Life
Working with a UT scientist, a model maker in Copenhagen has recreated a lifelike reconstruction of an ancient mollusk, offering a vivid portrait of a creature long extinct.
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Researchers to Develop Software to Improve Discovery of Low-Cost, Sustainable Energy Materials
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received a $6.2 million grant over a five-year period to develop computer software to design and discover materials for low-cost energy applications. Potential uses include economical battery materials to capture solar energy and materials that convert water to hydrogen using sunlight.
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McCombs Offers New Master of Science in Business Analytics Program
The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin is accepting applications for its new Master of Science in Business Analytics program in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. The program will host its first group of students beginning in the fall of 2013, and prospective students can apply starting…
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Real Estate Certificate Program Brought Back to McCombs School of Business by Alumni and Industry Demand
The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin is now taking applications for its new Undergraduate Real Estate Certificate program, nearly two decades after university students were last able to participate in such a program.
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Longhorn Network Earnings Draw Top Scholars in Philosophy, Math and Engineering
Internationally renowned engineer and mathematician Francois Baccelli and philosopher Galen Strawson have been appointed to two new endowed chairs at The University of Texas at Austin, effective Sept. 1. The appointments make for a total of seven endowed academic chairs funded by earnings from the Longhorn Network.
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Nuclear Waste-Burning Technology Could Change the Face of Nuclear Energy
University of Texas at Austin physicists have been awarded a U.S. patent for an invention that could someday be used to turn nuclear waste into fuel, thus removing the most dangerous forms of waste from the fuel cycle.
