The Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors and the University Co-operative Society are pleased to announce and congratulate the 2023 winners of the University Co-op Research Excellence Awards and the winners of the 2023 Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards.

Congratulations to the recipients of the inaugural Planet Texas 2050 + Humanities Institute Faculty Learning Community awards. These awards are the result of a recent open call that Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) — an interdisciplinary program focused on climate resilience, population growth, and…

"From the moment I learned about Whole Communities–Whole Health, I was excited to join this team," Michael Mackert says. Now, five years later, the health communication professor is the steering committee chair of Whole Communities–Whole Health (WCWH), UT Austin’s grand challenge dedicated to…

Research administrators usually work behind the scenes of the research enterprise, they were in the spotlight at the National Research Administration Day Celebration. The event is held annually by the UT Austin Association of Research Administrators and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors.

Good Systems has awarded funding to five projects that investigate the ethical implications of AI technologies in society in the areas of racial justice, surveillance and privacy, smart cities, and community-robot interaction. The awarded projects, led by faculty who span four colleges at UT Austin…

Good Systems would like to thank Dr. Sharon Strover (School of Journalism and Media) for her leadership as chair of the Good Systems Executive Team in 2022-23. Strover will continue to serve on the Executive Team. The grand challenge now welcomes Prof. Sherri Greenberg (LBJ School of Public Affairs…

Not every city is home to one of the world’s leading public research universities. Fewer cities, still, are able to take advantage of their intellectual capital the way Austin does. Case in point: the collaborations between the City and UT Austin’s Planet Texas 2050 grand challenge, which are…

AI is in our lives, influencing the way we work and teach, connect with one another, and move about our cities and communities. It’s increasingly a topic of discussion in our classrooms, board rooms, and around the dinner table. Good Systems researchers and partners are optimistic about the ways in…

The election of Professor Sherri Greenberg to chair of Good Systems couldn’t be more timely. UT Austin’s interdisciplinary Ethical AI Grand Challenge is ready to start shaping and informing public policy at the intersection of technology and society. And there are few as well equipped as Greenberg…

When faculty and Research Development staff at The University of Texas at Austin came together five years ago to launch Whole Communities–Whole Health, they made an unusual but straightforward commitment: the data they gathered from a long-term study about social determinants of health would be…