Media Mentions

The UT FLARE-X team advances in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition to autonomously detect and suppress high-risk wildfires with a fleet of drones.

Alumnus Erik Ballesteros is building “Doc Ock” arms for future astronauts as a Ph.D. student at MIT.

This Texas Monthly story on how the new space race is unfolding in Texas features alumni Jesus Charles, who worked on the Blue Ghost mission, and Tim Crain's company, Intuitive Machines, the first company to get a lander on the Moon in over 50 years.

The ASCEND program, created by Moriba Jah and coordinated by AIAA, was created to find solutions to the most pressing space sustainability challenges. 

Learn about Nanshu Lu's newest wearable device that helps track hydration levels in this Discover Magazine piece.

On ABC News, ASE/EM professor Moriba Jah weighs in on what it would mean for NASA to lose SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

A new study co-led by ASE/EM faculty members Nanshu Lu and Luis Sentis introduces a wireless forehead e-tattoo that may help track the mental workload of workers like air traffic controllers, surgeons, truck drivers and more. Learn more about the new technology featured in The Guardian.

Moriba Jah is one of three new members elected to the Universities Space Research Association's Board of Trustees.

Space debris is not just polluting our atmosphere, it has impact on Earth as well, says aerospace engineer Moriba Jah in this Defector piece

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.