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UTSA COVID-19 Technology Licensing GuidelinesApril 28th, 2020 |
‘A Long Time Coming’: Eastside Life Science Hub VelocityTX Set for February LaunchJanuary 16th, 2020 Located in the former Merchants Ice building on East Houston Street, the building will house VelocityTX’s incubator program, a startup accelerator for Latin-American technology businesses looking to establish a North American presence, and space for education. |
Researchers awarded $1.2M to study effects of AR-based medical trainingJanuary 13th, 2020 The two-year Assessment of the Psychological and Physiological Effects of Augmented Reality (APPEAR) study began in December 2019. The research team, through a partnership with Chenega Healthcare Services and MedCognition, will focus on how various AR prototypes for medical training affect the students using them. |
Anson Ong elected fellow, biomaterials science and engineeringJanuary 14th, 2020 |
UTSA Knowledge Enterprise closes out a successful yearJanuary 22nd, 2020 |
Bizios named a fellow of the National Academy of InventorsDecember 5th, 2019 The honor recognizes Bizios for demonstrating a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. |
Innovation Awards celebrate UTSA research and discoveryNovember 13th, 2019 |
Can our muscles stay young even as we get old?November 6th, 2019 |
UTSA to unlock the power of sulfur in future drug designNovember 19th, 2019 |
Engineering students to display innovations at Tech SymposiumNovember 25th, 2019 |
Researcher studies osteoporotic bone fractures to rethink treatmentOctober 30th, 2019 |
CPS Energy supports clean energy and grid cybersecurity research at UTSASeptember 18th, 2019 |
Researchers to share innovations at Think Science and Discovery DayAugust 8th, 2019 |
UTSA adds Master of Science in Biomedical Technology CommercializationAugust 29th, 2019 “With advances in biomedical technologies and the need to have diverse and interdisciplinary knowledge for commercialization of developed technologies and devices, this program is highly attractive to students who have an undergraduate degree in engineering, sciences, or business,” says Anson Ong, associate dean of Administration and Graduate Studies for the UTSA College of Engineering. |
VPREDKE seeds innovation with $430,000 in funding to UTSA facultyJuly 2nd, 2019 |
UTSA professor Francis Yoshimoto designs protein blockers to fight obesity and heart diseaseJuly 10th, 2019 |
UTSA contributes to UT System’s top 5 spot in the world for U.S. patents grantedJune 26th, 2019 |
UTSA develops systems to construct power islands and live off the gridJune 13th, 2019 |
San Antonio researchers check synthetic version of capsaicin — the heat in chile peppers — for cancer-killing effectsJune 9th, 2019 |
UTSA spinout receives global honor for innovationApril 15th, 2019 “There is an increasing need for optimizing energy use in buildings, but every building has different equipment and energy needs. This award recognizes that Leaptran has created an adaptive product that solves this incredibly complex problem, which then saves businesses significant money,” says Christine Burke, director of the UTSA Office of Commercialization and Innovation. |
Bernard Arulanandam inducted into National Academy of InventorsApril 9th, 2019 |
UTSA harnesses spin of electrons to power tech devicesApril 3rd, 2019 UTSA engineers are using spintronics, the study of an electron’s intrinsic quantum mechanical property called spin, to allow low-power operation with a possible application in quantum computing. |
UTSA professors develop software to improve how companies train their data analystsApril 1st, 2019 LeBlanc first introduced his prototype at the 11th Annual Innovations in Online Learning Conference in San Antonio in 2015. The project captured the attention of the UTSA Office of Commercialization and Innovation, which sponsored LeBlanc and his team, Leslie Doss, lecturer in the UTSA College of Business, and David Cortez ’16, UTSA communication graduate student, to travel to the Southwest Regional I-Corps workshop in Houston last summer. |
UTSA chemist Banglin Chen receives prestigious Humboldt Research AwardMarch 25th, 2019 Chen, the Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Chemistry, arrived at UTSA in 2009 and credits the warm weather, tenure position and a beautiful city of San Antonio as convincing his family to make the move. |
UTSA engineers develop inexpensive, smart stop sign to improve driver safetyMarch 6th, 2019 |
This Houston biotech company hopes to one day fix your aging musclesMarch 6th, 2019 |
UTSA Year in Review, No. 1: UTSA enters Guinness World Records with smallest medical robotDecember 31st, 2018 The series of nanorobots was created by Soutik Betal during his doctoral research in Electrical Engineering under the guidance of professors Ruyan Guo and Amar S. Bhalla in the UTSA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and they could one day lead to huge medical advancements. |
UTSA honors researchers with Innovation AwardsDecember 5th, 2018 The culmination of the awards was the selection of John Quarles, UTSA associate professor of computer science as the 2018 Innovator of the Year. The award is based on a number of factors including technology disclosures, patent filings, issued patents, licenses, and overall innovation and ideation. |
UTSA discovers how to make plastics cheaper and less energy intensiveOctober 25th, 2018 |
UTSA professor’s creation could unmask malware attacksOctober 1st, 2018 Information management teams caught off guard as to when the infiltration occurred now scrambled to contain the damage. Atlanta, a major global transportation hub, became a victim of one of the largest ransomware attacks in a U.S. city within a matter of moments. |
UTSA researchers develop tools to prepare for chemical attacksSeptember 10th, 2018 On that day, April 4, 2017, that town became known as the site of the most violent chemical attack in recent history. And while many in the international community were horrified by the incident, a group of UTSA researchers wasted no time to learn how to protect others from a similar fate. |
San Antonio Startup Making Noise-Reducing Tech for Babies Adds $1.3MSeptember 13th, 2018 Invictus plans to use the new funding to bring the technology to the point of commercialization after further testing of the device, which detects sound waves from ambient noise and generates an oppositional wave of its own to change the noise that would come into an incubator, according to Invictus CEO George Hutchinson. |
UTSA researcher receives $1.9 million HHS grant to develop anti-fungal vaccineJuly 23rd, 2018 Unlike bacteria or viruses, there is currently no vaccine available for any type of fungal infection. Fungi are more complex organisms, containing far more components, which makes developing an effective vaccine to battle them much more difficult than efforts to combat a virus or bacterial infection.. |
The Key to A Clean Energy Economy? Incubators, Deals, & AttentionJune 28th, 2018 Renewables accounted for about 11 percent of overall energy consumption in the U.S. in 2017, up from 9.9 percent two years earlier, according to the Energy Information Administration. Cities across the country, including San Antonio, are trying to benefit from the burgeoning “new energy” economy, hoping to draw benefits like investment capital and jobs that come from more businesses opting to use renewable energy.. |
UTSA researchers create method that can quickly and accurately detect infectionsJune 11th, 2018 This new study was also covered by the Rivard Report and the article can be viewed here. |
San Antonio Startup Leaptran Develops Machine-Learning Energy TechMarch 26th, 2018 Called Leaptran, the young startup plans to help commercial building owners, such as at a university or warehouse, use solar panels to soak up and store energy in batteries for potential future use. The company says its software can help the building owner predict how much power the building will use and when—based on data analytics of previous usage—which is especially useful when utilities face high levels of power consumption and charge higher rates. Leaptran’s co-founders believe the businesses or owners of the commercial buildings can then switch their power usage from the utility to the energy saved and stored in its batteries. |
Q&A: Lyle Hood, UTSA Department of Mechanical EngineeringMarch 6th, 2018 Among his designs are a laser needle for treating cancer that can do the work of both a cutting-edge surgical needle and a medical laser, giving it the ability to eradicate cancerous tumors while also delivering chemotherapy drugs. |
UTSA researchers want to teach computers to learn like humansMarch 5th, 2018 This new study was also covered by Newsweek and the article can be viewed here. |