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 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 ...

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 ...

August 22, 2018

Get Out of the Lab!

TTUHSC researchers are turning “great” research into business ventures that provide life-changing products By Kara Bishop Photos by Neal Hinkle Original article: TTU's Health ...

October 19, 2017

How Scientific Research Transitions from the Lab to Become a Tool to Improve Patient Care

By: Nicole Lundberg Texas Tech Discoveries The story started with a simple research presentation. Suhas Pol, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas ...

February 17, 2017

Southwest I-Corps Success Stories: NeoFluids, LLC

NeoFluidics, LLC was formed out of the TTU accelerator program and went through the NSF I-Corps Team program. The portfolio includes a platform microfluidic storage and dilution technology ...

February 17, 2017

Southwest I-Corps Success Stories: yearONE, LLC

yearONE, LLC is a radar sensor R&D startup company that is a spin-off from a Texas Tech University faculty’s research. yearONE officially incorporated in 2014 and has been through multiple ...

July 7, 2016

Using Iron Ions To Disinfect Hospital Rooms

Researchers work to revolutionize how health care institutions clean surfaces “Technology boot camp” is how Virender Sharma, PhD, professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of ...