At the glassy blue waters’ edge of Greenland’s fjords sits the world’s second-largest ice sheet measuring between 6,600 and 9,800 feet thick and covering 660,000 square miles. The ice is…

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin are playing an instrumental role in the construction of the largest optical telescope in the world.   UT is part of a…

From its humble beginnings with just a handful of staff housed in modest surroundings to becoming one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the world, the Texas Advanced Computing…

Zoom has become a part of the daily routine for many at The University of Texas at Austin since the COVID-19 pandemic made it necessary to move the spring semester…

As COVID-19 and its effects became widespread earlier this year, hundreds of University of Texas at Austin researchers pivoted their work to focus on matters related to the coronavirus. These…

The Nobel Foundation honored University of Texas engineering professor John Goodenough, 97, with the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry last fall. Goodenough, along with researchers Michael Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, was…

When the sun sets in West Texas, the Davis Mountains come alive. Javelinas rustle through the shrubs looking for food, moths flit about, and the telescopes of the McDonald Observatory turn…

A group of 120 researchers across 14 research units on campus have been selected by The University of Texas at Austin for Planet Texas 2050, the university’s first program under…

On the second floor of the UT Administration Building, a cozy blue room serves as a small getaway for the university’s staff and faculty. The Stress Reduction & Biofeedback Center,…