We work at the Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC), where our work focuses on affordable housing development and community initiatives that contribute to a healthy and equitable built environment. We want to emphasize the ‘community’ aspect of what we do, because we work…

Geology Professor Jay Banner, one of the authors of the federally mandated climate report released this past November, sat down with Spectrum News Austin’s Karina Kling to talk about what the climate and economic predictions mean for Texas and the southern U.S.

“This is unhealthy food to eat. It has a lot of sodium.”

There was once a town called Myous, on the coast of what is now Turkey. It was a Greek town near the mouth of the Maeander River, under the control of the much larger city Miletus. The ancient travel writer Pausanias tells us that an inlet of the Mediterranean initially gave it access to the sea…

From the first moment I heard about Bridging Barriers, UT’s grand challenge initiative, I was excited. The UT Center for Health Communication is built on interdisciplinary partnerships across campus, and being part of a Bridging Barriers project would be another way to make important connections…

How many people have heard about the 1,797 scientific studies that have examined the connection between home air quality and child breathing problems such as asthma? Has anyone read them all? I doubt any researcher has, much less the average parent who has a child with asthma — and yet parents are…

Having grown up in Puerto Rico, I’m more familiar with hurricane season than I’d like to be. Every year, we would brace ourselves for what might be. The entire island would go on alert, and emergency plans would be put into effect at the first sign of an approaching storm.

In a so-called post-truth era, we are actually collecting more data on a wider variety of factors than ever before. These data sources can — and should — help us to make better decisions on a range of comprehensive issues.

Summer is coming.

Something really important is happening at the University of Texas at Austin this month.