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SDCT's Top 10: Year in Review

Look back on the show-stopping events, national recognition, and milestones we're celebrating from the 2022-2023 academic year.

Alex Iveroth's 3D Environment for the 2019 Blizzard Entertainment Student Art Contest

Meet Alex Iveroth: AET Game Design Student

October 15, 2020

Alex Iveroth enters 3D game environment for the 2019 Student Art Contest at Blizzard Entertainment, leading to a coveted internship and great industry connections. 

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Design in Health Edu: Service Design with Rebecca Ngola

September 4, 2020

Rebecca Ngola is currently guiding the inaugural cohort for the M.A. in Design focused on Design in Health in her DES 397 – Service Design course. She made time to discuss her thoughts on design, joy and food.

Multimedia artist and educator Yuliya Lanina in costume during her performance of Misread Signs

AET Professor Yuliya Lanina Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award for 2020-2021 Academic Year

August 7, 2020

Austria-American Educational Commission is pleased to announce that Yuliya Lanina has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Fulbright-O21/MuseumsQuartier Artist-in-Residence for the 2020-2021 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Arts and Entertainment Technologies faculty member Yuliya Lanina creating artwork with her two daughters at home while quarantining during COVID-19

Yuliya Lanina: Motherhood, mask-wearing and making paintings for frontline healthcare workers

June 5, 2020

At home with her family, the Austin artist has started a new series of paintings specifically for frontline healthcare workers.

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UT System virtual workshop helps academic advisors use “design thinking” to support student success

May 21, 2020

Read "UT System virtual workshop helps academic advisors use 'design thinking' to support student success" via the University of Texas System.

Team from Design Institute for Health working on COVID relief initiatives at the onset of the pandemic in 2020

Design Shining through COVID-19

May 7, 2020

The Design Institute for Health team has had the privilege and honor to work on a number of COVID-19 related initiatives in the community and beyond. Here are a few highlights.

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Design Department Chair Kate Canales Featured on NPR's 1A Podcast

April 30, 2020

Listen to 1A's podcast episode "When The Customer Actually Comes First: Design Thinking," featuring Design Department Chair and Professor Kate Canales.

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Core77 Promotes New Design in Health Degree

January 7, 2020

"Knowing what I know now, if I had to do my career over again, I might've pursued this particular Masters rather than spending over a decade designing plastic things that undoubtedly wound up in the ocean." - Rain Noe, Core77

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First-of-Its-Kind Master’s in Design in Health Launches at UT Austin

December 10, 2019

The School of Design and Creative Technologies and the Design Institute for Health at The University of Texas at Austin are advancing the role of design with the creation of the Master of Arts in Design in Health.

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2019 VR Austin Jam

November 15, 2019

The 5th annual VR Austin Jam took place at the University of Texas at Austin, sponsored by the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies.