IN THE NEWS Archive

2023 NASA SEES Interim, Zoe Zlatic, was featured on Fox2Now on February 21, 2024 to talk about the experiment she will be conducting on a Zero-G flight scheduled for March 8, 2024. Zoe, along with three other 2023 NASA SEES Interns, were selected among the 96 on-site interns from the high school summer internship program ...

The Center’s Dr. Byron Tapley was featured on KXAN News Science segment: “Gravity holes: How UT’s experimental mission uncovered secrets of our planet” discussing how “observing the polar ice cap melt turned out to be critically important for science” from data provided by the GRACE satellites. Source: https://www.kxan.com/news/science/gravity-holes-how-uts-experimental-mission-uncovered-secrets-of-our-planet/

MAGAL and uPGRADE, both 3-year mission design collaborative efforts between CSR and members of Portugal’s rapidly emerging space sector, aim to deepen understanding of regional and local variations in sea levels and gravitational field variations, respectively. Listen to the CrossTalks Podcasts by visiting: https://utw10642.utweb.utexas.edu/cross-talks-podcast/

Geethu Jacob, an aerospace engineering Ph.D. student who usually applies her machine learning skills to geospatial data to track climate change, has also been working to help identify and sort ultrasound images into categories, improving the process of identifying fetal anomalies. Some examples of how her research in geospatial data can make a difference to the ...

Texas Engineer Plays Crucial Role in NASA Satellite Mapping Mission The second generation of NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) is responsible for taking important measurements of our planet’s key health indicators, including ice sheet mass balance, depth of bodies of water, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. And, ...

On Tuesday, July 6, Hurricane Elsa became the first Category 1 storm to enter the Gulf of Mexico during the 2021 hurricane season. The Direct Broadcast Receiving System operated by the Center for Space Research collected a visible color image from NASA’s Aqua MODIS instrument showing Elsa crossing the upper Gulf coast of Florida on ...

Margaret Baguio, Program Manager, Education and Outreach, awarded Million Women Mentors – Texas 2020 Stand Up for STEM Mentor Award. Million Women Mentors – Texas 2020 Stand Up for STEM Awards Announced  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 12/01/2020 Austin, Texas: The Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP), which connects and supports Texas-based organizations that empower women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and ...

First Freeze of the Season at McDonald Geodetic Observatory

Two aerospace engineering graduate students pursuing Ph.D. degrees, Ke Wang and Sophy Wu, are recipients of 2020 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science Technology (FINESST) awards. Recipients are awarded a $135,000 stipend over a three-year period which covers tuition, research activities and travel costs to attend workshops and conferences. NASA grants FINESST awards to ...

UT Projects Win $23.6M in R&D Funds as Part of Portuguese Government Technology Program The UT Austin Portugal program, a 13-year-old innovation partnership between the university and the Portuguese government, received $23.6 million in funding to pursue 11 R&D projects as part of a major technology initiative from Portugal’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education. The projects fall ...