by Dr. Elisa Borah Trying to keep up with the ever-expanding AI landscape can feel overwhelming. It’s hard to stay on top of all the advances and new apps, or to know whether the information we consume is AI-generated. As…
by Erin Schumacher Each year, thousands of children in Texas grow up in foster care without ever finding a permanent home. In 2024, 860 young people aged out of the foster care system, transitioning to adulthood without the stability of…
By Baker Hamilton MD, MMSc I’m delighted to have recently come on board at the Moritz Center as the Health and Technology lead. I have other feelings about it too: hope, eagerness, and enthusiasm are present, along with a counterbalancing…
by Aaron Rochlen, Ph.D. Finding ways to merge hobbies and/or passions into work can be difficult at best, impossible at worst. And in my 20 years at UT, this has been true. Most of the time, these creative efforts to fuse…
by Emily Neimeyer Key Insights The First Problem: Substance Use and Overdose Deaths Over the past two decades, fatal overdoses have surged. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports a steady rise in fatal drug overdoses from 1999 to 2022,…