These disparities are more pronounced in Texas than in the rest of the country, Strama said. Things like Texas’ strict voting requirements, like 30-day pre-registration and photo ID requirements, have a more pronounced impact on lower-income, lower-education voters than on other voters, he said. 

When Utah Republican Spencer J. Cox ran for governor in 2020, he recruited his Democratic opponent to make a joint advertisement in an attempt to model healthy political disagreement. The viral ad became a surprising catalyst for depolarization

Earlier this year, over 4,400 sexual assault test kits sat untested on storage shelves at the Austin Police Department. While this backlog raised concerns, APD contends that it was not entirely a result of negligence on their part but is reflective of a broader issue affecting sexual assault cases nationwide.

“I set out to do work that would affect policy in some way, but the process of writing and researching this book was never going to plant the seeds of trees that I’ll be able to sit under,” Sierra-Arévalo said. 

Daniel Diaz, UT postdoctoral scientist who leads the Deep Proteins group at the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, developed the AI system MutComputeX to identify protein mutations that triple the production rate of chemicals needed to produce galantamine.

Pig-butchering scams involve a scammer forging trust with the victim before taking their money… These frauds have a complex victimology, as most of the scammers are victims of human trafficking across Southeast Asia, falsely promised high-paying jobs and forced to be scammers. For this reason, John Griffin said this is by far the darkest topic he’s ever researched. 

As humanity grappled with the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, the foothill yellow-legged frog faced a pandemic of its own, one that endangered the species.

“Combining a voracious appetite for science and the ambition to do important things with humanity is a very unusual combination, and everybody who remembers (Bard) will remember those things (about him),”

The way AI is portrayed in the media may be frightening, but not in the ways that may pertain to realistic dangers of AI, like algorithmic bias, Scott said. 

Four UT community members received the 2024 Presidential Citation Award in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the UT community and within their respective fields, the University announced on Feb. 2.

As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, journalism students at the University of Texas at Austin find themselves at the crossroads of tradition and innovation… Does artificial intelligence have a place in a field so formerly reliant on human intervention?