Media Mentions

This Inverse piece discusses a paper co-authored by Thomas Underwood and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that explores how plasmas could have contributed to the chemical origin of life on early Earth.

In this TEDx UT Austin talk, Nanshu Lu explains why rigid electronics don’t work well with our soft, pliable skin–and how her flexible, tattoo-like sensors are changing the future of at-home healthcare.

Learn how Texas Engineers are making their mark on the Moon and how they plan to make spaceflight operations safer and more accessible in this Alcalde piece that features alumnus Tim Crain and faculty members Maruthi Akella, Brandon Jones and Renato Zanetti.

Pairing real-world systems with their digital representations could improve decision-making, but questions remain about reliability and trustworthiness. 

Moriba Jah was featured on NPR's TED Radio Hour May 10 episode, "Our tech has a climate problem: How we solve it." Jah is one of several TED speakers discussing the use of innovations such as AI, electric cars and satellites without making the climate problem worse.

Nanshu Lu her discusses her research team's new development of electronic, stretchable skin that has the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin. This could be applied to medical care, where robots could check a patient's pulse, wipe the body or massage a body part.

Two teams of aerospace engineering seniors have been selected to participate in NASA's 2024 RASC-AL Competition.

Last month, a family living in Napels, Fla. got a huge surprise when a chunk of metal - which ended up being part of a pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station - crashed through the roof of their home. Moriba Jah speaks with NPR on his work to understand and predict the behavior of human-made objects in orbit, and to ultimately make Earth and space safe and sustainable.

"Beirut is kind of a hot spot right now because all of the spoofing or most of the spoofing around Israel is directing aircraft to believe that they are at the Beirut airport." - Todd Humphreys

The Texas Eclipse Ballooning Project team is featured in this KBTX news story about their balloon launch to study atmospheric conditions during the total solar eclipse.

Todd Humphreys discusses the chances of sea creatures helping find flight wreckage.

John-Paul Clarke, an expert in air traffic operations, speaks with KVUE news about how the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport could be affected by increased traffic during the total solar eclipse.

Maruthi Akella speaks with Fox 7 Austin about the work he and his team did to help guide the Intuitive Machines lunar lander, Odysseus, to its destination on the moon.

The Austin American Statesman features Maruthi Akella and his team's work to develop algorithms to help land Intuitive Machine's lunar lander to its destination on the south pole of the moon.

Moriba Jah is featured as a notable alumnus by Embry-Riddle during Black History Month.