The University of Texas at Austin is one of many academic institutions working with community volunteers in Maryland to help teach social media how to respond to disasters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A new University of Texas at Austin and City of Austin project will help Austinites to beat the heat.

The University of Texas at Austin, the city of Austin and the neighborhood group Go Austin/Vamos Austin are working to create heat maps for the entire city with the goal of coming up with cooling solutions for the places that suffer the most.

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.

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.

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.