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Jan 15, 2025 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live,” has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels’ career in television from his earliest writing for “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and “The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show” up through and including the nearly 50-year history of “Saturday Night Live,” the most Emmy Award-nominated show in television history.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas —The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin welcomed 260,899 visitors during the 2024 calendar year.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — The inventor of the most widely adopted artificial intelligence technology in U.S. health care is joining The University of Texas at Austin. The hire comes a year and a half after The University of Texas System announced an ambitious plan to establish an academic medical center in Austin, the largest U.S. city without one.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Andrew (Andy) Maas as the new assistant vice president for technology transfer on the Discovery to Impact team, which works with world-class inventors, investors, creators and entrepreneurs to launch startups and collaborates with established businesses to accelerate new products, services, solutions and cures.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin joined top energy companies in issuing a report to the Texas Legislature advising the steps it could take to advance the state’s growing hydrogen industry. The report, issued by the Texas Hydrogen Production Policy (TxH2) Council, provided several key recommendations focusing on safety, environmental protection, and regulatory clarity and efficiency. UT is the only university represented on the council.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — Applications for freshman admission to The University of Texas at Austin increased 24.3% for the Fall 2025 term, compared with the number received one year ago. The University received 90,562 applications during the submission period of Aug. 1 to Dec. 1, compared with 72,885 applications received for Fall 2024 admission. Applications from Texas residents increased by 12%, while out-of-state applications soared by 48%.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — Since the emergence of temporary, skin-attached electronic tattoos more than a decade ago — and their evolution to measure heart activity, track pneumonia, measure stress levels, and more — researchers have grappled with a major logistical challenge: How can they be applied to hairy skin without losing performance? To figure out this challenge, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Los Angeles, borrowed from regular tattoos.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
Led by Cockrell School of Engineering professor Manish Kumar, a group of UT engineering students joined GivePower to build a solar-powered microgrid for a school in Kenya that had been functioning with intermittent, unreliable energy.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is among the top universities in the world for solving society’s most difficult scientific challenges using an interdisciplinary approach, bridging knowledge and discovery across multiple fields of study to focus on a single problem. In Times Higher Education’s inaugural THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings, UT places 14th out of 749 universities in 92 countries.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Adrienne Lee
AUSTIN, Texas — Thanks to the University of Texas System Board of Regents, more future Longhorns will attend The University of Texas at Austin with tuition fully paid or at a deeply discounted rate. This week, the UT System committed to provide free tuition to undergraduates whose families have an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $100,000 or less, a significant increase from the current threshold at UT Austin of $65,000. This new threshold will apply to students at all UT System institutions.
