The election of Professor Sherri Greenberg to chair of Good Systems couldn’t be more timely. UT Austin’s ethical AI grand challenge is ready to start shaping and informing public policy at the intersection of technology and society. And there are few as well equipped as Greenberg to lead this initiative.

Sean Upshaw is a public health communications expert from the Moody College of Communication who is primarily focused on exploring the what, how, and why underserved populations in the U.S. engage with health messages. He is also presenting at this year’s Whole Communities—Whole Health Research Showcase. Here he talks about his work on the messaging around COVID-19 vaccine uptake among African Americans. 

The Whole Communities-Whole Health Research Workshop keynote speaker for 2023 is Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, Jacquelyn Taylor. Her pioneering, interdisciplinary research expertise straddles nursing, physiology, medicine, genetics, and social science and we are delighted to welcome her to UT Austin.

The Whole Communities-Whole Health Research Workshop keynote speaker for 2023 is Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, Jacquelyn Taylor. Her pioneering, interdisciplinary research expertise straddles nursing, physiology, medicine, genetics, and social science and we are delighted to welcome her to UT Austin.

Sharon Strover is a professor of communications in the Moody College of Communication and chair of Good Systems at The University of Texas at Austin. We sat down with Strover in advance of the 2023 Good Systems Symposium, taking place April, 3 - 4, on UT Austin’s campus.

A Q&A with Maria De-Arteaga, Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business Information, Risk, and Operations Management Department and member of the Good Systems project, Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Curb Disinformation. Maria is a speaker in a roundtable at the 2023 Good Systems Symposium focused on how to use AI to advance racial justice and combat disinformation.

Researchers from UT Austin have been awarded a prestigious grant from the UK’s Wellcome Trust to understand how flood and storm surge modeling could help inform infectious disease spread in Texas and beyond.

Beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, the Graduate Portfolio Program in Ethical AI will focus on the ethical implications posed by AI-based technologies, as well as how innovation in AI is driven by societal forces.

A new mobility hub in the Georgian Acres neighborhood in north Austin is providing much-needed transportation services to a community living in a ‘transit desert’ and may serve as a useful blueprint for urban areas across the United States in need of similar essential services.