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Houston-Area Energy Startup Incubator Triumphs in Phase 1 of DOE Competition
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) selected Texas Innovates, a non-profit organization focused on hydrogen and carbon innovation and expansion in the greater Houston and Gulf Coast region, as one of 23…
UH Graduate Programs Shine Among Nation’s Best in 2024 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
The University of Houston is once again proving that it is a powerhouse in graduate education, with 13 of its programs securing spots among the top 50 nationwide in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report graduate program rankings, released…
Penn State University Unveils Butterfly-Inspired AI Technology Taking Flight
When it comes to mating, two things matter for Heliconius butterflies: the look and the smell of their potential partner. The black and orange butterflies have incredibly small brains, yet they must process both sensory inputs at the same…
Forty Graduate Students Recognized with Prestigious Awards at Penn State University
Forty Penn State graduate students were named recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units. The awards recognize…
UC Irvine Scientist Contributes to Linking Climate Change with Madagascar’s Megadrought
A University of California, Irvine-led team reveals a clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern Madagascar. Their study appears in the Nature journal Climate and Atmospheric…
UC Irvine-Led Research Team Constructs Groundbreaking Tandem Repeat Expansions Genetic Reference…
A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has built the first genetic reference maps for short lengths of DNA repeated multiple times which are known to cause more than 50 lethal human diseases, including amyotrophic…
University of Texas at Dallas: Cutting-Edge Sensors Illuminate Sun-Earth Studies for Space…
Small, low-cost sensors developed by space scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas to study the Earth’s upper atmosphere recently — and unexpectedly — provided information about the sun, something the devices were not…
UTD Commemorates New Sciences Building, Elevating Campus Gateway
The 186,000-square-foot Sciences Building, which opened in July 2020, was officially dedicated recently.
Located on The University of Texas at Dallas campus, the new facility houses the Department of Physics, classrooms, offices,…
University of Texas at Dallas Receives CPRIT Grants to Propel Cancer Detection and Treatment…
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded grants totaling more than $2 million to two University of Texas at Dallas engineers for their research to develop technologies for early detection of oral cancers…
University of Texas at Dallas Unveils New Discoveries Offering Clearer Insights into the Expanding…
An astrophysicist from The University of Texas at Dallas and his colleagues from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration are at the forefront of an ambitious experiment to study the expansion of the universe and its…