College News
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UT to Lead NSF Center That Will Study How Robots and People Learn to Live and Work Together
A five-year collaboration between six universities and industry partners will place assistive robots in everyday human environments
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Does Your Neighborhood Shape Your Personality?
A new UT Austin study suggests a link between psychological characteristics and environmental features.
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The Gold Rush Ended, But Its Entrepreneurial Legacy Didn’t
The gold rushes that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the American West may have left behind more than abandoned mines. In a new study, a team of researchers co-led by The University of Texas at Austin found that communities shaped by gold rushes developed an entrepreneurial legacy that remains visible today.
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Vision Likely Drove the Evolution of Larger Brains in Humans and Related Primates
New research from UT Austin challenges the attribution of larger brains to an expansion of the brain’s frontal lobe.
