From “fake news” screenshots to conspiratorial claims, the lead up to the 2022 Midterm elections has shown that misinformation remains a problem in public discourse. This is especially harmful for minority groups and underrepresented populations, as they tend to be the target of misinformation-motivated vitriol.

Good Systems Researchers and Partners Explore Issues of Bias, Fairness, and Justice and Examine Challenges and Opportunities for Fact Checkers at the Inaugural Disinformation Day Conference.

Since its launch, Planet Texas has been working with artists and creatives who have taken the experiences of climate change and turned them into digital artwork, photographs, dance performances, and more.

While some students have seen the albino squirrels around campus, all students will have the opportunity to see robot dogs on the Forty Acres in the upcoming years.

Scientists are unleashing the computerized canines on the Austin campus to study how humans interact with them.

As part of a five-year study, UT researchers will have the robots delivering sanitizing wipes and hand sanitizer on campus to observe human-robot interactions.

Researchers from the University of Texas recently received grant funding to set up a delivery robotic network on campus– the robots will start being deployed around UT campus in early 2023. They don’t stop there.

These autonomous robots will rove the buildings and streets of UT next fall. The purpose of them is to help researchers understand and improve the experience of pedestrians when they encounter them.

A new grant to an interdisciplinary team of researchers at UT Austin will support the creation of a robot delivery network on campus, with the first deployments scheduled for early 2023.

Read letters from Drs. Baker and Strover below as they reflect on the past year and look forward to continued growth.