Archive for: research
UT Professor’s Research About the Connection Between Texas and Antarctica Wins Polar Medal
By Daniel Oberhaus
Installing a GPS station at the Whichaway Nunataks in the Antarctic interior. In 1987, Ian Dalziel, a professor and senior research scientist at the Jackson...
UT Researchers Use AI to Translate Thoughts Into Text
By Daniel Oberhaus
Imagine a world where humans can express their thoughts to computers directly—no keyboard required. It sounds like a scenario ripped straight from science...
The Big Get: Governor’s University Research Initiative Brings Alumna Back to UT
By Marisa Charpentier
Nine top researchers are packing up their labs and heading to Texas this year—and UT is getting one of them. A $34 million program, the Governor’s University...
Meet the Two Distinguished Professors Coming to UT on Gov. Abbott’s New Grant
By Alex Samuels
Ten distinguished researchers are coming to Texas universities as a result of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI)...
Memory Matters
By Clara Wang
In the first Harry Potter movie, Neville Longbottom tests out his “Remembrall,” a magical ball that turns red when the user forgets something. When this happens...
Hello From the Dark Side
By Danielle Lopez
How one UT alumnus helped continue some of Einstein’s most ambitious work The morning David Reitze, PhD ’90, vindicated Albert Einstein’s last remaining prediction...
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Taking the Bite Out of Zika
By Joe Hanson
We don’t know everything about the Zika virus—but we may know how to stop it. My wife is the mosquito magnet in our family. We have a running joke about how...
From Cheating Voles, Lessons on Evolution of Behavior
By Katie Matlack
On account of their sheer abundance, prairie voles, a species of small Midwestern rodent, are what conservationists call a “species of least concern;” in other...
Total Recall: UT Researchers Shed Light on Memory
By Danielle Lopez
Let’s say it’s the morning of your first day of college. You’ve memorized your schedule, mapped out your route, and taken off 20 minutes early. But when you...
Just What the Doctor Ordered
By Danielle Lopez
When it comes to exercise, UT geneticist Molly Bray doesn’t believe in the old adage that something is better than nothing. She argues that mentality can do more...