Two San Antonio Researchers Get Seed Funding
Two San Antonio researchers have received $200,000 in seed stage funding to study new methods to optimize drug release. Kelly Nash, assistant in the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr....
View ArticleUTSA’s New Dean of Business Focuses on Entrepreneurship
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Last summer, Gerard Sanders became the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Sanders comes from the Rice...
View ArticleUTSA Holds Biannual Entrepreneur Boot Camp
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News To launch a business in college, students must master all kinds of skills. They might have to make a business plan, find funding, do market research,...
View ArticleFirst 3 Day Startup Program at UTSA
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News The University of Texas at San Antonio held its inaugural 3 Day Startup event last weekend. Friday afternoon, 35 students began working to create...
View ArticleMicrosoft Expands its Data Center Operations in San Antonio
In 2008, Microsoft opened a $550 million, 470,000 square foot data center in the Westover Hills area of San Antonio. At the time, a Microsoft executive said that was just the beginning of Microsoft’s...
View ArticleUTSA Hosts the Open BigCloud Symposium
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Some of the biggest trends in technology today are the cloud, a fancy name for data centers, and big data, the massive bits and bytes of information flowing...
View ArticleBrewing New Tech Startups at UTSA
A can ban on the Comal River in New Braunfels prompted a University of Texas at San Antonio engineering team to create a solution. They created the PalmKeg, a mini-keg sized insulated beer cooler to...
View ArticleThe Open Cloud Institute Launches at UTSA
The University of Texas at San Antonio on Thursday announced the creation of the Open Cloud Institute with $9 million in backing. The Open Cloud Institute will focus on creating degree programs in...
View ArticleInvictus Medical Sells a Device to Help Newborn Babies
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Invictus Medical is a homegrown San Antonio biomedical startup focused on improving the lives of newborns. In 2010, Daniel Mendez, Israel Cruz and...
View ArticleRackspace and Intel Open the OpenStack Innovation Center
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Officials with Rackspace and Intel Thursday officially cut the ribbon on the OpenStack Innovation Center at Rackspace’s headquarters. “We are going to...
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