Research Impact Partners

The PRC provides infrastructure resources and sustains a dynamic interdisciplinary culture geared toward facilitating population-related research in areas that include Family Demography and Intergenerational Relationships; Education, Work, and Inequality; Population Health; and Reproductive Health.

The Cockrell School of Engineering is committed to broadening participation in engineering disciplines among people from populations that have historically been excluded from studying engineering.

Leveraging collaborative programs to accelerate scientific discovery into tools for healing and healthy lives.

The Texas Engineering research community is known around the world for its collaborative spirit and its extraordinary breadth and quality of expertise. From energy and the environment to bioengineering and health, Cockrell School researchers are developing technologies and solutions in 10 cross-disciplinary Research Impact Areas.

GeoFORCE Texas develops the next generation of STEM leadership by identifying young, academically adept 8th graders and taking them on extraordinary in-person and virtual field academies. Students travel throughout the U.S. learning about geologically relevant field sites from research scientists and faculty.

The summer High School Research Academy (HSRA) provides high school students with an immersive and hands-on five-week interdisciplinary research experience at the University of Texas at Austin campus. (Including 9th-12th grade students)

This nationally recognized series allows leading researchers from The University of Texas and other prominent universities to share their passion about science, technology, engineering and math with the general public. Events are held six times a year (on-campus or virtually). Here’s a list of past participants.

The Pen-City Writers is a three-year, creative-writing certificate program for men incarcerated at a maximum security prison in southern Texas. The incarcerated students earn UT college credit, publish their own journal, have their own library, and are learning to be writers and thinkers behind bars.

The Longhorn Impact Fellowship at Texas (LIFT) pairs student consultants with sustainable corporations, social enterprises, and non-profits to solve sustainability and impact-focused problems.

Conducts assessments and evaluations that inform stakeholders by providing outcome-oriented, data-driven information on projects or programs.