UT Austin Is Partnering With Chevron To Award Eight Outstanding Graduate Student Researchers With Energy Graduate Fellows Awards of $10,000 Each
Graduate students from any school or college at UT Austin performing research on energy-related topics are eligible to apply. Applications due Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
The Energy Institute serves as a convener of expertise at The University of Texas at Austin and across the region to enable and lead significant and strategic energy research and education collaboration between academic, community, government, and industry partners.
The Energy Institute helps support UT’s students and over 450 faculty and research staff from UT’s top-ranked programs and centers in engineering, business, geosciences, natural sciences, architecture, law, and public affairs.
Energy Institute and GTI will lead a collaborative effort to provide training, leak detection and repairs at oil and gas wells and pipelines in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico.
The Strategic Seed Grant Program is a funding opportunity to spark new, impactful and collaborative research in any field of energy, including business, law and policy, with an aim towards decarbonization and energy security.
Permian Energy Development Lab (PEDL) Moves Into Round Two in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines Program
PEDL aims to bring significant new investment in innovation and economic development to the Permian Basin, across West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.
DOE Announces Award for up to $1.2 Billion for the Gulf Coast Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub to Bolster America’s Global Clean Energy Competitiveness and Strengthen Our National Energy Security
The University of Texas at Austin will help accelerate the development of the global market for hydrogen and advance secure and sustainable energy in the U.S. and the world. As the lead academic institution and a founding partner in the HyVelocity Hub, UT will provide lifecycle and techno-economic analyses of the projects and lead the Hub's workforce development efforts.
Host Andy Uhler, energy correspondent for NPR's Marketplace, BBC, and KUT's Texas Standard, travels to Rockdale, Texas, population 5,300. Once heralded as ‘The Town Where It Rains Money’, Rockdale has already gone through its own energy transition. Its story offers a cautionary tale of a community trying to use what remains of the energy industry of the past, while anticipating economic benefits from the energy industry of the future.
The Permian Energy Development Lab (PEDL) has used an archetype approach to build a detailed profile of each Permian county. Using the archetype framework for future studies, PEDL will identify challenges and opportunities associated with participation in the energy transition and propose fitted strategies promoting new economic growth.
Energy Education at The University of Texas at Austin
The Energy Institute works with schools and departments across campus to foster energy-related courses and energy entrepreneurship. The Institute manages the interdisciplinary Graduate Portfolio Program in Energy Studies; sponsors a weekly guest lecture series, the UT Energy Symposium; and hosts UT Energy Week, an annual gathering of energy experts.
The Energy Institute helps elevate the public conversation about energy issues by connecting journalists with subject matter experts and via energy literacy programs like the podcast Phases and Stages: The Texas Energy Story.
To cultivate energy entrepreneurship across the 40 Acres, the Energy Institute co-created the Smart Energy Call for Innovation (c4i) to support student-led startups and collaborates with Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy (TEX-E).
Kickoff UT’s Year of Energy with a full week of talks, panels, chats, networking, and workshops hosted by the UT Energy Institute and Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center that highlight the unrivaled breadth and depth of energy research and knowledge at UT, and other leading minds in the energy industry progressing energy solutions for global impact.
A collection of more than 440 recorded lectures from leaders in academia, industry, philanthropy, government, CBO's and NGO’s, on a wide range of topics in energy research, policy, business, education and innovation.
Cybersecurity Researcher, Energy Security, Sandia National Laboratory
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
A new online interactive dashboard enables users to understand the costs and impacts of major supplies and demands of energy through the year 2050 across the U.S.
Students will assist with communications, writing, social media, and administrative functions for the Spring 2025 semester.