Check out the top five things you missed in our Week with the World Economic Forum, when industry and academia came together to discuss how governments buy AI technologies.

The University of Texas at Austin is teaming up with the City of Austin to create heat maps for the entire city, working to identify places most at risk and then come up with cooling solutions.

For those reopening their businesses after the pandemic, water system officials say you should flush your pipes. Cockrell School of Engineering Professor and Planet Texas 2050 researcher Mary Jo Kirisits explains why.

Classics Professor and Planet Texas 2050 organizing committee member Adam Rabinowitz is among several University of Texas at Austin professors granted the 2020-2021 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. Hear from him and others what makes a great teacher.

Given the life-and-death stakes of AI innovation, it is critical for designers to reflect and to seek input from experts in other domains, such as the legal and policy domains. Hear more from Good Systems experts in this guest blog for Cisco Tech Blog.

How are local governments using remote and hybrid working arrangements? How will local government operations and management change post pandemic? What key questions do government executives need to ask to meet the demands of a post pandemic time? LBJ Professor of Practice and Good Systems researcher Sherri Greenberg discusses these issues on the IBM Center's Business of Government podcast.

UT researchers took the state-of-the-art Vocus "Sniffer" on the road across Central Texas to find out whether some people are at greater risk than others of breathing in polluted air.

Millions of people, especially people of color, are cut off from quality food, jobs, healthcare and education, because they lack access to suitable transportation. School of Architecture Associate Professor and Good Systems Chair Junfeng Jiao coined the term 'transit deserts' to describe these areas. He talks with WBEZ Chicago about possible solutions.

Community and Regional Planning doctoral candidate Deidre Zoll shares about her work examining the climate planning efforts in Houston and San Antonio and whether they amplify existing inequalities.

Planet Texas 2050 researcher and Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Dev Niyogi joins Texas Public Radio's The Source to talk about U.S. President Biden's infrastructure investment plans and shifts to greener energy.