Research

The power of the Internet over depression
To fight depression among homebound adults, Social Work Professor Namkee Choi uses the video chat tool Skype and connects patients with therapists.
Witnesses to civil rights-era life
Explore the Briscoe Center's R.C. Hickman and Calvin Littlejohn photo collections that chronicle Texas' dynamic African American communities.
Labor or leisure?
A new economics study by Professor Daniel Hamermesh lends insight into how people spend their free time when their work weeks are shorter.
The high value of short-lived worms
Researchers have devised a simple test using dopamine-deficient worms for identifying drugs that may help people with Parkinson's disease.
Meet a Game Changer: Lauren Ancel Meyers
In this video, the mathematical epidemiologist reveals why she's so passionate about studying the spread and control of infectious diseases.
Know - Your connection to a world of ideas
To fight depression among homebound adults, Social Work Professor Namkee Choi uses the video chat tool Skype and connects patients with therapists.
Explore the Briscoe Center's R.C. Hickman and Calvin Littlejohn photo collections that chronicle Texas' dynamic African American communities.
A new economics study by Professor Daniel Hamermesh lends insight into how people spend their free time when their work weeks are shorter.
Researchers have devised a simple test using dopamine-deficient worms for identifying drugs that may help people with Parkinson's disease.
In this video, the mathematical epidemiologist reveals why she's so passionate about studying the spread and control of infectious diseases.

Recovery Act

The University of Texas at Austin has received more than $117 million for research through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Research investment includes major pieces of instrumentation, investigations in health, energy, infrastructure and other areas, and expanding supercomputing capabilties.

Read more about the university's research through federal economic Recovery Act funds.

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Further Findings

Namkee Choi noticed a recurring problem while working as a Meals on Wheels volunteer in three states over 15 years.


Namkee Choi, professor in the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin, is using technology in an innovative way to curb depression among homebound adults. Photo: Marsha Miller.

A number of the older adults to whom...

Researchers from the undergraduate level to the Nobel Prize explore, discover and innovate in the arts, humanities and sciences and across disciplinary boundaries. The impact of the university's research ripples through Texas and around the world.

Research Facts

Todd Ditmire and the Petawatt Laser$642 million was awarded in sponsored research in 2009-2010.

$14.3 million in revenue was received from the licensing of university technology.

The university runs one of the world's fastest supercomputers and one of the most powerful lasers.

Texas researchers were quickly on-site after the Haiti earthquake and Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

About 800 patents have been awarded to the university.

The university's 17 libraries hold more than nine million volumes.

The Harry Ransom Center displays a Gutenberg bible and the world's first photo.

Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature ever discovered, was found by a university student. A replica is on display at the Texas Memorial Museum.

Research News

Published: Feb. 20

Intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virtual traffic controller, says computer scientist Peter Stone.

Published: Feb. 14

Shell Oil Company executives visited The University of Texas at Austin on Friday, Feb. 10, to present a check in the amount of $3,963,250, representing the company’s investment in the university for the year.

Published: Feb. 10

Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have created a molecule that's so good at tangling itself inside the double helix of a DNA sequence that it can stay there for up to 16 days before the DNA liberates itself, much longer than any other molecule reported.

It's an important step along the path to someday creating drugs that can go after rogue DNA directly. Such drugs would be revolutionary in the treatment of genetic diseases, cancer or retroviruses such as HIV, which incorporate viral DNA directly into the body's DNA.