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Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of ... - UT …
Apr 27, 2022 · AUSTIN, Texas — An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.
UT Statement Regarding Arrests from Monday’s Protest and
Apr 30, 2024 · The University of Texas learned Tuesday that, of the 79 people arrested on our campus Monday, 45 had no affiliation with UT Austin.
Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds
May 1, 2023 · AUSTIN, Texas — A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of text.
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Oct 9, 2024 · News, stories, and opinions on science, technology, health, education, business, policy, campus life, and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
CDC Taps UT for National Disease Outbreak Response Network
Sep 19, 2023 · AUSTIN, Texas — To help fight future pandemics, a team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and University of Massachusetts Amherst have been selected to help with the first nationwide outbreak response and disease modeling network.
UT Ascends to No. 7 in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Sep 24, 2024 · AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is once again named one of the top universities in the country, rising two spots to No. 7 among public universities and remaining the No. 1 public university in Texas, as measured in the latest U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings out today. UT rose to No. 30 overall, among both ...
UT Austin Ranked Best School in Texas and Among the World’s
Oct 27, 2021 · The university ranked No. 38 among all U.S. universities in U.S. News & World Report’s latest undergraduate rankings. Earlier this year, the Times Higher Ed World University Rankings placed UT Austin No. 47 overall in the world and No. 7 among U.S. public universities.
UT Austin Reinstates Standardized Test Scores in Admissions
Mar 11, 2024 · AUSTIN, Texas — After four years of test-optional admissions for undergraduate applications, The University of Texas at Austin will return to requiring standardized testing scores, beginning with applications for the Fall 2025 semester.
Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch ... - UT …
May 2, 2024 · The new stretchable e-skin, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, solves a major bottleneck in the emerging technology. Existing e-skin technology loses sensing accuracy as the material stretches, but that is not the case with this new version.