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Texas Engineers Land Semiconductor Grants Through CHIPS Act-Backed NSF Program

September 26, 2023

A pair of Cockrell School research teams are part of a massive semiconductor grant program from the National Science Foundation that includes funds from industry leaders and the federal CHIPS Act.

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Hot Summer Air Turns into Drinking Water With New Gel Device

September 14, 2023

For significant portions of the globe faced with water shortage problems a beacon of hope may be on the way: the ability to easily turn hot air into drinking water.

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Breakthrough Oil-Capturing Technology Offers 10x Improvement Cleaning Up Hazardous Spills

September 11, 2023

To combat the extreme environmental toll of major oil spills, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new technology that could significantly improve cleanup capabilities compared to today's methods.

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Guihua Yu Recognized as Blavatnik National Awards Honoree

September 01, 2023

Guihua Yu was one of 28 U.S. researchers under the age of 42 to be named as finalist honorees for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, announced by New York Academy of Sciences.

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Modified Virtual Reality Tech Can Measure Brain Activity

August 31, 2023

Researchers have modified a commercial virtual reality headset, giving it the ability to measure brain activity and examine how we react to hints, stressors and other outside forces.

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UT Austin Engineers Advance Respiratory Health Tech via NSF's National Innovation Corps Program

August 31, 2023

The University of Texas at Austin's Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering proudly announces the participation of Dr. Tanya Hutter, Assistant Professor, along with her graduate student, Nirmalay Barua, and TEXVMS mentor Rolly Willis, in the esteemed National Science Foundation's National I-CorpsTM program. Together, they form the RespireCoach team, a pioneering force dedicated to transforming respiratory health through cutting-edge technology.

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With New Grant, Physicist Explores Using Sound to Transmit Data in Quantum Computers

August 31, 2023

UT Austin’s Keji Lai has received a Moore Foundation award reserved for the country’s top experimental physicists. 

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Dr. Deji Akinwande: New Cockrell Family Regents Chair

August 31, 2023

Recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to nanomaterial science, nanoelectronics, and biosensors; Professor Deji Akinwande has been appointed by the University leadership as the 'Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #8'. This appointment is in recognition of his outstanding research, teaching, and service sustained over a decade at the University.

 

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Hypothermal Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers by Zheng Lab

August 29, 2023
In their new Nature Communications paper entitled “Hypothermal Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers” (HOTTs), Professor Yuebing Zheng and his students (Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara – leading author, Jingang Li, Zhihan Chen, Hongru Ding, Youngsun Kim, Suichu Huang) along with collaborators (Xiuying Li and Professor Zhenpeng Qi) have achieved low-power trapping of diverse colloids and biological cells in their native fluids.

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TMI Welcomes a New, Cutting Edge Ion Microscope

August 29, 2023
In 2022 Texas Materials Institute (TMI) has purchased a new, state-of-the-art time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS), an outstanding addition to the analytical capabilities at TMI. The new ion microscope (ionTOF M6, Fig. 1) has been installed in June 2023 in the Engineering Education and Research Center (EER), located in the main campus at UT Austin, and it is available to all users since July 2023.

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