Following the hottest month ever recorded for the planet, places like Texas have yet to catch a break from scorching temperatures. With the extreme climb on thermometers also come opportunities to study and understand the effects of increasing heat for people and the planet—as well as what we might be able to do about it.

Led by School of Information professor Yan Zhang, a team of graduate students developed a prototype for an updated version of WCWH's Hornsense app in just 14 weeks.

UT Geoscientists are helping the City of Austin protect its water supply in the face of a changing climate

Planet Texas 2050 artist fellow Juliet Whitsett makes Texas’s most vulnerable species her muses.

A new collaborative, DOE-funded initiative on future flood- and air pollution-risk planning in the Beaumont-Port Arthur region is putting local residents at the heart of its research approach through a design process that, researchers believe, will result in a final product that better serves the people who need it most.

On Earth Day, community members in Del Valle teamed up with The University of Texas at Austin’s Whole Communities–Whole Health researchers to plant some seeds, both literally and figuratively.

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.

Coupling patient-centered health communication with data from a new academic transplant program, researchers look to give underserved Central Texans with end-stage kidney disease better access to care that leads to longer, healthier lives.