Media Mentions

Clint Dawson is a recipient of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Achievement Award.

Lori Magruder is one of four board members appointed to serve on the future Central Texas Spaceport Development Corporation.

Moriba Jah was named a distinguished visiting professor of the University of Minnesota Morris, where he delivered a keynote lecture and participated in other campus events including classroom visits and discussions. 

 Jinpai (Max) Zhao, a Ph.D. student advised by Clint Dawson, was featured in this SIAM News story on his modeling framework to generalize global storm surge and accurately predict water elevation that he presented at the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering.

Moriba Jah discusses the urgency of cleaning up Earth's orbital debris and moving toward a circular space economy before it becomes a crisis.

Todd Humphreys discusses how GPS spoofing works and strategies his team is developing to protect aircraft.

The Texas Aerial Robotics (TAR) student organization has collaborated with Maruthi Akella's Controls Group for Distributed and Uncertain Systems lab and LIFT Aircraft to compete in the GoAERO competition where they were selected as a Stage 1 Winner.

Apptronik, a spin-off company that started in Luis Sentis' Human Centered Robotics Laboratory, has raised $350 million to scale the production of AI-powered humanoid robots.

KVUE News features professor Maruthi Akella and UT Aerospace alumna Annie Vo Cohen of Firefly Aerospace in this story about the reasons for returning to the Moon and the future of the booming Texas space economy.

In this piece on space environmentalism, Moriba Jah discusses the growing issue of orbital space debris and the need for a circular space economy.

Srinivas Bettadpur's work recognized by the American Geophysical Union with the Charles A. Whitten Medal is featured in this Daily Texan story.

Todd Humphreys says the aviation industry and regulators need to act quickly to protect aircraft against spoofing of commercial aircraft. 

Todd Humphreys discusses civilian and aviation GPS spoofing against missiles in Lebanon and the Middle East.

This Inverse piece discusses a paper co-authored by Thomas Underwood and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that explores how plasmas could have contributed to the chemical origin of life on early Earth.

In this TEDx UT Austin talk, Nanshu Lu explains why rigid electronics don’t work well with our soft, pliable skin–and how her flexible, tattoo-like sensors are changing the future of at-home healthcare.