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UT To Enhance U.S. Space Force Detection, Response to Security Threats
The University of Texas at Austin is set to become the first academic institution to work directly with the U.S. Space Force to detect, analyze and counter threats in space to U.S. national security in near-real time. A seed fund grant from the Texas Space Commission will establish a Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) Lab, which will pair the private sector with UT’s leading research expertise and computing power to augment national security. Space domain awareness involves monitoring…..
A Towering Birthday
We’re about to mark a birthday on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. But determining when the 89-year-old Main Building and Tower “opened” is not as straightforward as you might think. Parts of it, namely the lower floors of the north half, originally called the Library Annex, were occupied in 1934. At the other end of the range, the University did not accept ownership of every part of the building until at least late May 1937, when most newspapers nationwide began proclaiming that UT’s remarkable new $3 million “skyscraper” was finished.
And Just Like That, It’s 30 Years Later. Did We Follow the Campus Master Plan?
In the shelves behind my desk sit nearly 100 editions of UT’s alumni magazine, The Alcalde. These were the issues we published while I was editor during the 1990s and 2000s, and, as I’m still writing about UT, I like to keep them handy. Recently I was passing the collection and noticed one that had made its way to the top of the stack. When I read the boldface question we had printed on the cover in 1996, I was dumbstruck: “What will UT look like in 2026?” When we published that issue, 2026 was unimaginably futuristic. Now, it was mere days away!
UT Receives Gift To Name Department of Accounting
The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business announced today that a foundational gift from accounting alumnus Jon Shulkin, BBA ’97, will name the Jonathan K. Shulkin Department of Accounting. McCombs’ undergraduate and graduate degree programs in accounting have ranked in the top two by U.S. News & World Report for 20 consecutive years. Shulkin serves as co-president and a partner of Valor Equity Partners, an Shulkin…..
From Idea to Impact: UT Student Rethinks How Surgeons are Trained
When surgeons train for some of the most delicate operations in medicine, they rely on observation and spoken feedback to learn how much pressure is too light to be effective or too heavy for working with fragile tissue. With guidance from a leading pediatric heart surgeon at Dell Medical School, an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin is working to change that by developing a tool that brings measurable, real-time data on…..
UT Embarks on a New Campus Master Planning Effort To Shape Its Future
or the first time in more than a decade, The University of Texas at Austin is launching a new campus master planning initiative designed to guide its growth and enhance the campus experience. The Campus Master Plan will provide a framework for land use and development and be a tool to inform continuous investment in UT Austin’s infrastructure, including recommendations for renovations and the reuse of existing buildings to serve its mission.