News - Southwest I-Corps

July 26, 2023

NSF I-Corps Site Program Furthers Award-winning Project

The Aggies Against COVID-19 Virtual Competition began in April. Teams of students competed against one another to develop innovations that would help in the fight against COVID-19. The top 10 teams ...

July 24, 2023

NSF I-Corps Ignites Science Education Revolution: Dr. Rowan Martindale’s Innovative Board Game Inspires Minds and Sparks Curiosity

Dr. Rowan Martindale, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, has a passion for studying marine communities, understanding their responses to ...

July 24, 2023

NSF I-Corps Journey: Advancing Surgical Robotics with Breakthrough Research

Dr. Ann Majewicz Fey, an associate professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at Dell ...

July 20, 2023

UT Austin Engineers Advance Respiratory Health Tech via NSF’s National Innovation Corps Program

The University of Texas at Austin's Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering proudly announces the participation of Dr. Tanya Hutter, Assistant Professor, along with her graduate student, Nirmalay ...

July 20, 2023

Contoro Robotics Raises $4.7M in Seed Round

Contoro Robotics, a company augmenting robot intelligence with AI and teleoperation, announced that it has raised $4.7 million in Seed funding. The round was led by SV Investment with participation ...

July 20, 2023

Grad Student Iman Salafian Finds Success with Trinity Tube Start-Up

Iman Salafian, Ph.D. candidate in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, is on a roll with his start-up Trinity Tube. The Trinity Tube is a medical device designed to care for preterm ...

July 20, 2023

Meet the Rylanders: the RealCooL Couple From UT Austin

If home is where the heart is, then one UT Austin couple painted theirs burnt orange. Cockrell School of Engineering associate professors, Drs. Marissa Nichole and Chris Rylander, are partners ...

July 18, 2023

NSF Helping UT Professor Take Research to Market

Originally posted by The University of Texas at Austin on February 24, 2023. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Ashley Matheny, an assistant professor at The University of Texas at ...

July 18, 2023

UT Austin Seed Fund Invests in Austin Startup ClearCam

Discovery to Impact at The University of Texas at Austin has invested $250,000 in ClearCam Inc., a UT-affiliated startup that has launched a technology cleared by the Food and Drug Administration ...

February 23, 2023

ME Researchers Complete the National Innovation Corps Teams program

Originally posted by The University of Texas at Austin on February 22, 2023. Researchers at the UT Austin Walker School of Mechanical Engineering have successfully completed the U.S. National ...

September 8, 2022

NSF expands the National Innovation Network with 5 new I-Corps Hubs

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the addition of five new NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) Hubs that will scale the NSF-led National Innovation Network, accelerating the ...

October 29, 2020

Arable Cultivates $20M Series B To Digitize Agriculture

Arable aims to observe a crop’s development as it grows and help farmers determine when the crop needs the basics, such as more light, water, or ...