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Department of Computer Science

Robots, Research, and the Road to Texas: Q&A with Volkan Isler

Isler, who has built robots to track invasive fish and monitor crop yields, is now setting up a new lab at UT Austin.

Portrait of Volker Isler, a man wearing glasses and a blue shirt in a laboratory

Features

EdEN Lab Serves Up Nutrition With a Side of Fun

More than 10,000 students and 500 teachers have benefited from school garden projects led by UT nutrition experts.

A school garden with thriving vegetable plants surrounded by short cider block wall in bright colors

Features

Quantum Science and Technology Turn 100

The College of Natural Sciences is celebrating a century of quantum science and technology.

Illustration shows a group of atoms with arrows indicating the directions of their electron spins

Features

Celebrating UT Austin’s First Black Graduate Degree-Holders in Zoology

Making discoveries about health and the natural world were among Oscar Thompson’s and Exalton Delco’s achievements.

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UT News

UT Leads Defense Research in Robotics

A University of Texas at Austin collaboration with Army Futures Command is accelerating responsible AI research advancement.

A woman in a VR headset looks at a screen while a person in miltiary camouflage looks at a larger screen in a robotics facility.

Texas Research

Design Thinking Sparks Novel Research Among Newly Tenured Faculty

Among the UT faculty members to strike up cross-sector research partnerships are Michael Drew and Carlos Baiz.

A four-wheeled robot on a desk like surface has tubes and a near-infrared spectrometer labeled NIR QUEST.

Department of Computer Science

Researchers Reduce Human Effort in Robot Training

A UT Robot Perception and Learning Lab project is reshaping humanoid robot training by focusing on data generation.

A representation of a humanoid robot in burnt orange has lines of code in the place where its face would be.

Features

In This Lab, Students Dig Into Antibiotic-Resistance Research

Meet the team behind a newly transformed experiential-learning biology course, reaching hundreds of UT students.

Meet the team behind a newly transformed experiential-learning biology course, reaching hundreds of UT students.

UT Bridging Barriers

RISE and Shine: Cutting-Edge Technology Protecting Life in Texas

Planet Texas 2050 has a project with integrative biology faculty focused on species and ecosystems in the state.

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Dell Medical School Mission Critical

New Inroads on a Quiet and Deadly Cancer

A nutritional sciences and Dell Med faculty research collaboration uses metabolism to address pancreatic cancer.

Two men in glasses, white coats and other PPE sit at lab benches opposite one another, smiling in their separate spaces.