News - Southwest I-Corps

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 ...

April 19, 2021

BBC features Dr. Lu’s and Dr. Jeong’s work (April 2021)

When Kayla Newell goes shopping for tattoo ink, she brings a UV light with her. The tattoo artist from Portland in the US state of Oregon creates dazzling designs using colours that appear to glow ...

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 ...

July 28, 2020

There’s a new group to know in Austin’s fight against Covid-19

By Mike Cronin – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 28, 2020, 2:36pm CDT Updated Jul 28, 2020, 2:46pm CDT Several academic, public-sector and private-sector organizations in ...

November 21, 2019

Top UT Inventions and Innovations of 2019

These UT professors have won the university’s Invent & Innovate Awards by Avril SealeUT News Feature image: From left, Christopher Idelson, John M. Uecker, M.D., ...