Research Impact Partners

The Center hosts a variety of education and outreach initiatives that can be leveraged in research proposals, e.g., the K-5 Research Experiences for Teachers program, Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, First Year Undergraduate Research Program: FUSE, Industrial Mentorship program for Graduate Students, Artist in Residence program, afterschool STEM clubs at local schools, and K-12 STEM outreach to the Texas School for the Deaf and Texas School for the Blind.

Cumbre Kids produce children's STEM podcasts that reach 130,000 Spanish-speaking families. Their programs feature researchers answering questions submitted by children 3-10 years old. Cumbre Kids has worked with the McDonald Observatory at UT Austin, as well as dozens of universities, federal agencies, museums, and more.

Division of General Internal Medicine faculty members are experts in comprehensive primary care, coordination of specialty and primary care including transitions of care from the hospital to the clinic, complex organ disease, and understanding and addressing the impact of social drivers of health. Faculty expertise is wide-ranging, including scholarship on medical education, addiction, LGBTQ+ health, HIV care and prevention, healthcare for the homeless, and QI in primary care. The division’s faculty members provide education and clinical care across multiple sites including CommUnityCare Health Centers, Central Health, the VA, Vivent Health (an HIV primary care clinic) and UT Health Austin.