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UT Energy Journalism Fellow covers controversy surrounding Texas-based solar market provider in Puerto Rico

March 29, 2019
UT Journalism Fellow Eliván Martinez Mercado made front-page news recently...

Public vs. Private: the debate over Puerto Rico’s new electric grid rages on

Feb. 27, 2019
Eliván Martínez Mercado, an investigative journalist based in Puerto Rico and a 2019 UT Energy Journalism Fellow, is working on a new book...

Self-driving shuttles hit the road in DOE pilot program

Feb. 27, 2019
A fleet of electric, self-driving vehicles now shuttle passengers around a cluster of museums and parks in Columbus, Ohio...

2019 UT Energy Journalism Fellowships announced

Dec. 19, 2018
The Energy Institute has awarded the 2019 Fellowship to two outstanding reporters, Eliván Martínez Mercado and Asher Price...

UT engineers wrapping up work on prototype zero-emission delivery vans for UPS

Sept. 27, 2018
Former UT Energy Journalism Fellow Maria Gallucci explores the work of engineers at UT Austin’s Center for Electromechanics and...

UT Energy Journalism Fellow Maria Gallucci discusses her year on campus, new book research on cargo shipping emissions

Aug. 29, 2018
2017-18 UT Energy Journalism Fellow Maria Gallucci recently wrapped up her year on campus researching and writing a new book...

Energy Journalism Fellow Maria Gallucci researching book on de-carbonization of global shipping industry

May 30, 2018
UT Energy Journalism Fellow Maria Gallucci provides a glimpse of her book on efforts to reduce emissions from cargo ships...

US Energy Watching As Mexico Documents Rising Theft From Pipelines

Oct. 27, 2017
American energy companies are looking to enter Mexico's oil, natural gas and electricity markets which have been open since 2014 to foreign participation for the first time since 1938...

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...