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Plants Need Water? Breakthrough Sensor Measures Leaf Hydration in Real Time

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Researchers have developed an electronic tattoo to track moisture levels in plant leaves, potentially leading to improvements in wildfire prediction, agricultural yields, water conservation and food security.

Emanuele Galiffi Wins Santimay Basu Prize

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Emanuele Galiffi has been named the recipient of the 2026 Santimay Basu Prize from Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI).

Radu Marculescu Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Professor Radu Marculescu has been recognized as an 2025 AAAS Fellow for his contributions to science and engineering.

Microscope Enables Large, Gigapixel Images Without Lenses or Labels

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A new microscopy technology developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin produced one of the largest and most detailed optical images of complex biological tissue ever created.

Robot Hands So Sensitive They Can Grab a Potato Chip

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New technology created at UT overcomes one of the biggest hurdles in robotics: sensitive touch.

Wang Receives Science of Trustworthy AI Grant

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Prof. Atlas Wang and his research team have received a Science of Trustworthy AI grant from Schmidt Sciences for their work on “Unlearning Sensitive Knowledge in Reasoning Models: From Final Answers to Reasoning Traces.”

Texas ECE Faculty Named Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers for 2025

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Nine Texas Engineering faculty members are among the most cited researchers on the planet, according to a new report.

Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 cataloged researchers with the most influential work in their field—the number of papers among the top 1% of citations. Texas Engineers on the list of 6,868 individuals across more than 1,300 institutions this year are: Deji Akinwande, Jeffrey G. Andrews, John B. Goodenough, Kara Kockelman, Nanshu Lu, Arumugam Manthiram, David Mitlin, Karen E. Willcox and Guihua Yu.

Radu Marculescu Receives Amazon Research Award

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Radu Marculescu, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a recipient of an Amazon Research Award.

Postdoc Jianing Zhu Receives 2025 TrustAI Rising Star Award

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Texas ECE postdoctoral scholar Jianing Zhu has received the 2025 TrustAI Rising Star Award, presented at the Lock-LLM Workshop of NeurIPS 2025.

Ehsan Vatankhah Receives First Place Talk At ASA Conference

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Texas ECE Ph.D. student Ehsan Vatankhah received first place in the Structural Acoustics and Vibration Young Presenter Competition for the talk "Magnetostrictive-based Jerk Sensor: experimental characterization and analytical estimation of sensitivity," at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) New Orleans meeting this past Spring.

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