Dec 17, 2021
UT for Me – Powered by Dell Scholars Celebrates First Graduate
19-year-old Noe Salinas-Rincon leaves the Forty Acres for the border
South Texas
Oct 13, 2021
How UT Earned the Seal of Excelencia
Texas’ top public university recognized as an institution where Latino students thrive.
May 19, 2021
Keeping the Gulf Coast Strong
Read the original story here, posted on September 25, 2018. The spotted seatrout is one of the most prized targets of saltwater recreational fisheries in Texas. The sport fishing…
May 10, 2021
Beatrice Torres, UT21 Senior
Neuroscience senior Beatrice Torres puts her heart into service on the Forty Acres and beyond.
May 06, 2021
Self-Watering Soil Could Transform Farming
Read the original story here, posted on November 2, 2020. AUSTIN, Texas — A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can…
Mar 08, 2021
Texas Earthquake System Strengthens National Network
AUSTIN, Texas — Now in its fifth year of operation, the Bureau of Economic Geology’s TexNet earthquake monitoring system manages more than 150 seismic stations throughout Texas and has been integrated into the country’s national monitoring system operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). TexNet helps fill a major coverage hole in the national system, […]
Feb 26, 2021
Record Number of Turtles Rescued at University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Winter Storm Uri caused damage and hardship across the state of Texas, and at the Port Aransas campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the work to recover from it included rehabilitating a record number of sea turtles threatened by the cold weather.
Feb 05, 2021
Pandemic Pro Bono in January
Each year, the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Program organizes a winter break service trip to South Texas: Pro Bono in January. Due to the pandemic, students did not travel to South Texas — but the tradition went on, online.
Nov 02, 2020
Self-Watering Soil Could Transform Farming
AUSTIN, Texas — A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of growing droughts. […]
Sep 14, 2020
New Dashboards Launched to Track COVID-19 Across Texas Communities
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin’s COVID-19 Modeling Consortium has launched a new online dashboard to track the spread and impact of the virus, including in hospitals across Texas, with detailed information for 22 areas. The Texas Department of State Health Services divides the state into 22 Trauma Service Areas (TSAs) to […]
