09/24/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas – Six assistant professors in the College of Natural Sciences have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER awards recognize promising young faculty and supports their research with five years of funding.
09/20/2012 - Potential uses include economical battery materials to capture solar energy and materials that convert water to hydrogen using sunlight.
09/10/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas – Renowned French mathematician and engineer Francois Baccelli joins The University of Texas at Austin this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Baccelli is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a cutting edge researcher at the intersection of mathematics, telecommunications and network information theory. As part of the appointment, he will develop a new Center in Information and Network Science.
09/05/2012 - A website devoted to covering the world of soccer adds a pinch of science by covering Robocup.
09/05/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas–The UT^2 game bot, created by computer scientists Jacob Schru, Igor Karpov and Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012).
08/06/2012 - UT President Bill Powers gives praise to Brent Waters of the College of Natural Sciences for receiving a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Mathematician Alessio Figalli also gets a shout-out.
08/01/2012 - The Economist speaks with Dr. Peter Stone about how making sporting robots can aid in using them for rescue missions.
08/01/2012 - Forbes reports on research done at UT, with colleagues in China and Taiwan, to create a nano laser device.
07/25/2012 - By David Maly, The Daily Texan, 7/18/2012
07/23/2012 - By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Elynn Lee is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Amazon on the Kindle Reader Framework team. This is her second internship, her first one being at Facebook in Palo Alto, California. She is simultaneously doing research on a SRC-URO fellowship in Computational Epidemiology.