Today, leaders from the UT System and representatives of the Kate Marmion Foundation, celebrated the naming of the @utsa Kate Marmion School of Public Health. They were joined by members of the school's first graduating class. Thanks to the foundation's generosity, the school is poised to transform community health and wellbeing across the entire region — a journey that begins with these pathbreaking graduates.
@utswmedcenter 's Innovation hub is about taking new discoveries and inventions out of the laboratory and into the real world. For example, David Greenberg, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine at @utswmedschool has developed a device that uses alternating magnetic fields to remove infections on prosthetics.
🚀 Back-to-back champions 🏆
@utep_miners 's Sun City Summit Rocket Team just claimed its second consecutive Lone Star Cup title with Dust Devil — a rocket that hit an apogee of 5,695 ft.
Next 🎯: a rocket that can reach 30,000 feet for the International Rocket Engineering Competition this June. 🧡 ⛏️
Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now They’ve Found It thanks to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the @mcdonald_observatory and some supercomputing horsepower from @taccutexas . The team hopes their discovery will help others study the early universe: how its structures evolved, the distribution of matter, the movement of objects, and more.
In January, the UT System and @nasa signed a Space Act agreement to expand collaboration in space research, workforce development and educational engagement. Texas is emerging as the epicenter of America's space industry. We're committed to supporting our state's leadership in this arena.
Research at UT System institutions powers innovation and creates jobs. In the last five years, UT System institutions have reported over 4,000 new invention disclosures, over 1,200 patents and founded more than 150 startups, generating nearly a billion dollars in tech transfer revenue.
Researchers in the newly launched Program in Memory Longevity (PML) at @utswmedcenter are working to gain insight into some of the most formidable brain conditions people face today – from aging to Alzheimer’s disease. “We want to know what makes a memory long-lasting,” said Dr. Losonczy, Professor of Neuroscience,
at UTSW's Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute. “We don’t yet know the mechanisms that allow memories to be stored over a lifetime. But we do know that memories are stored in relatively small groups of brain cells, and that when connections form between those cells, they become stronger.”
UTSW has more: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/stories/2026/memory-longevity-losonczy.html
⭐ Made in Texas: economic engine ⚙️
More than half of all graduates from UT institutions stay in Texas. They earn over $133 billion annually — a massive injection of capital into local economies, small businesses and Texas communities. #madeintexas #utsystem
⭐ Made in Texas: record enrollment 🧲 Across the UT System, access to educational excellence keeps growing. In 2025, @utarlington , @utaustintx , @utep_miners , @utrgv , @utsa , @sfasu , and @uttyler all admitted more students than ever before. #madeintexas #utsystem
We're committed to helping each of the 260,000+ students at UT institutions across Texas build successful and meaningful careers. That's why we're hosting the UT System Academic Integration of Career Education (AICE) conference: Creating a Life of Purpose. More than 120 professionals from all 13 UT System academic and health institutions are here to collaborate and innovate together so we can embed world-class career education into the classroom and beyond. Together, we're enhancing the academic experience, fueling student success, and preparing graduates for the Texas workforce.
Chancellor John Zerwas looks out at the Johnson Space Center's Artemis
Mission Control as UT System institutions look to chart a new future with NASA. Today, UT System leaders visited the Center to sign a Space Act Agreement with NASA. The agreement builds on existing work and will facilitate deeper collaboration in areas like space exploration research and aerospace medicine, educational engagement in STEM fields, and workforce development in the aerospace, cybersecurity, and semiconductor industries.
The UT System’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers has inducted eight new faculty members.
“Teaching excellence is essential to the UT System’s mission because every well-prepared nurse, engineer, teacher, doctor, scientist, software developer, manager, artist and public servant make for a stronger Texas," said Chancellor John Zerwas, congratulating the new fellows.
The fellows join other outstanding faculty members from UT institutions in the academy working to enhance teaching excellence, promote innovation, and share educational initiatives across the UT System and the state of Texas.
