2020-2021

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.

Where Longhorns once played basketball, robots now play soccer.

We sat down with Mark Papermaster to get his thoughts on leadership, taking risks and the importance of investing in future generations.

Celebrating 50 years of equal opportunity in Engineering at UT

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.

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.

How the new Texas Innovation Center is making an impact in the midst of a pandemic

A new approach to protecting Native water supply

We sat down with Diana Marculescu to learn more about her priorities for the ECE department and her long-term vision for the future. 

Inside the Cockrell School’s Texas Inventionworks studio, engineers immediately galvanized into action to create customized 3D-printed masks during COVID-19.