News
News
2020-2021
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On March 13, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic sent UT students home packing. The remainder of the spring semester would be spent online, distanced from their peers and professors and faced with a new, unexpected challenge: social isolation.
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Where Longhorns once played basketball, robots now play soccer.
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We sat down with Mark Papermaster to get his thoughts on leadership, taking risks and the importance of investing in future generations.
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Celebrating 50 years of equal opportunity in Engineering at UT
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The Cockrell School’s impact on innovation at The University of Texas at Austin is immense, with faculty and students responsible for roughly two-thirds of all startups, patents and licensing deals to come out of UT over the last decade.
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For UT alumnus and Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith, the company’s mission represents a full-circle opportunity to provide a new generation with the same inspiration he received from earlier aerospace accomplishments.
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How the new Texas Innovation Center is making an impact in the midst of a pandemic
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A new approach to protecting Native water supply
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We sat down with Diana Marculescu to learn more about her priorities for the ECE department and her long-term vision for the future.
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Inside the Cockrell School’s Texas Inventionworks studio, engineers immediately galvanized into action to create customized 3D-printed masks during COVID-19.