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.

The key takeaway? Today’s machine “intelligence” bears little resemblance to the human thought processes to which it is incessantly compared, both by those who gush over “AI,” and by those who fear it.

Assistant Professor Miriam Solis will use funds from the Gulf Research Program's Early Career Research Fellowship to advance environmental justice in the Rio Grande Valley by engaging youth perspectives in environmental planning.

Austin, Texas — When the four-legged robots walk around the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, all the attention is on them. They are part of a groundbreaking science and social experiment from the school's robotics program.

University researchers partnered with the Austin Fire Department to strengthen responses to fires and analyze the smoke’s environmental impact in various communities to instill a proper plan for communities at risk of unhealthy air quality.

UT announced the launch of the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence online graduate program on Jan. 26. The school will begin accepting applications on June 1 and will host its first class in spring 2024.

Just as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning emerge as the fastest-growing in-demand skill sets in the global workforce, The University of Texas at Austin is establishing a new online master’s program in AI with the potential to bring thousands of new students into the field.

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.

Researchers with the University of Texas announced a new project earlier this month that will hopefully provide valuable data to the community: the Climate Atlas. The interactive map, funded by a grant from NASA, will highlight the neighborhoods in Austin being impacted by climate change.