News

Prof. John Goodenough awarded Welch Award in Chemistry

Sept. 27, 2017
Renowned UT Engineering Prof. Dr. John B. Goodenough has another prestigious honor to add to his mantle: the 2017 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. Goodenough first received wide acclaim...

How the Texas energy industry should move forward after Hurricane Harvey

Sept. 27, 2017
Hurricane Harvey taught us some valuable lessons about the vulnerability of Texas' energy industry, writes Energy Institute Deputy Director and Engineering Prof. Dr. Michael Webber...

Energy journalists get crash course from UT experts

Sept. 27, 2017
More than two dozen UT Austin faculty members and other researchers participated in the second annual UT Energy Journalism Workshop...

UT Austin to co-lead NSF research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels

Sept. 27, 2017
UT Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering will help lead a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation engineering research center...

UT geoscientists tackle the mysteries of methane hydrates

Sept. 27, 2017
In May 2017, a team of scientists and graduate students from UT Austin's Institute for Geophysics, a unit within the Jackson School of Geosciences, began the first of two ambitious drilling expeditions...

Hydrogen could help solve electric vehicles' energy problem

Sept. 27, 2017
The comparison of battery-only and fuel-cell electric vehicles comes down to two competing technologies with different challenges, writes Michael Lewis...

UT Energy Symposium Kicks off New Semester of Guest Lectures

Sept. 13, 2017
Gene Preston, CEO of Transmission Adequacy Consulting, delivered the opening lecture in this fall’s UT Energy Symposium (UTES), the popular guest lecture series sponsored by the Energy Institute.

West Texas Talk: Dr Todd Davidson & Dr Joshua Rhodes Of UT Austin’s Energy Institute

Sept. 8, 2017
On this segment of NPR's West Texas Talk, Lorne Matalon speaks with Dr Todd Davidson and Dr Joshua Rhodes, energy scientists based at the University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute...

Science reporter Maria Gallucci to study de-carbonization of global shipping industry as new UT Energy Journalism Fellow

Aug. 30, 2017
Maria Gallucci, a science reporter with Mashable, will begin a yearlong sabbatical from daily news reporting as the 2017-18 UT Energy Journalism Fellow...

Department of Energy should adjust its mission to focus on smart energy management

Aug. 30, 2017
Forty years after its inception, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is at crossroads, writes Dr. Michael Webber, in a new op-ed published in several news outlets...