University of Texas System

The UT System receives a U.S. patent every two days, signs a commercialization agreement every three days and starts a new company every nine days. Now, UT System leaders want to take technology commercialization to the next level with the potential establishment of a new entrepreneurial academy “StartUT.”

Read about these efforts.

Seton Healthcare Family has announced that its parent company, Ascension Health, approved construction of a teaching hospital for UT Austin’s Dell Medical School. Construction of the new hospital is expected to begin in 2014 and be completed in 2017.

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UT Austin’s Dell Medical School makes progress as it begins its search for an inaugural dean and announces a short list of potential architects/engineers for its research and medical office buildings.

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More than a hundred key Texas leaders from education, business and research gathered at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas to discuss how to revitalize the partnership among higher education, government, philanthropy and business to keep research universities strong and viable. 

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University of Texas System leaders are promoting a transformational plan to create a new university in the Rio Grande Valley that will include a school of medicine.

Visit the Project South Texas  website to learn more.