Institutes and Centers
Center on Aging and Population Sciences (CAPS)
Provides high-quality services, resources, specialized programming, and leadership to facilitate large-scale, population-based aging research.
Project leads: Deb Umberson and Karen Fingerman
Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium (TALC)
The core mission is to enhance the longevity and well-being of the aging population. In service of this mission, TALC supports the development of interventions to improve the lives of older adults, clinical research in neuroscience and brain function, interdisciplinary and community-based partnerships, community outreach, and a certificate program in aging and health for UT graduate students.
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Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute (TXBSPI)
A central organizing structure at UT Austin for social and behavioral science research focused on solutions to inequality in the pathways to adulthood.
Project Leads: Chandra Muller, Robert Crosnoe and David Yeager
Population Wellbeing Initiative
at UT- Austin is a network of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin who conduct foundational research in economics, demography, and evaluation for long-term social welfare. Project areas include fertility, parenting, and the future of population growth, as well as population ethics for policy evaluation.
Project Lead: Dean Spears
Initiative for Law, Societies, and Justice
at UT- Austin brings together scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to work together to advance research, education and community engagement on relevant issues related to equity in access to justice.
Project Lead: Becky Pettit
Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research (EdSHARe)
An interdisciplinary, collaborative research project that investigates how educational contexts, opportunities, and outcomes shape health and cognigition across the life course.
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Texas Prison Education Initiative
A group of faculty and graduate students who volunteer teach and tutor in prisons and jails in Texas. Their goal is to provide incarcerated juveniles and adults access to a high-quality college education.
Project Lead: Sarah Brayne
Research Institute for Compassionate Economics
r.i.c.e. is a nonprofit research organization, dedicated to understanding the lives of poor people, especially young children, in India, and to promoting their well-being.
Project Leads: Diane Coffey & Dean Spears
