Research

Event: Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, leading Brazilian businessman and chairman of the São Paulo-based ethanol giants Cosan and Raízen, will give a talk on energy security in the Americas.

With the help of the university’s supercomputing power, researchers explore the health risks of wireless devices through virtual body models and advanced algorithms.

George Georgiou, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin whose technology developments in the engineering, medical, biochemical and cellular fields could help treat tens of thousands of patients with diseases such as cancer and osteoporosis, has been elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

A mass evacuation tracking system developed after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has won a major award from the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM).

An international team of scientists that includes two University of Texas at Austin researchers has found that Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, which sits on top of massive reserves of oil, is in the single most biodiverse region in the Western Hemisphere.

Astronomy Professor Volker Bromm talks about the cosmic dark ages, first light and how his research was tapped for the film “Tree of Life.”