Texas Impact

Credit: Tim Coppens

Could special antibodies produced by llamas help the fight on COVID-19? A graduate student researching at UT and his mentor joined with colleagues in Belgium in discovering the answer is yes. (A Belgian llama named Winter, center, helped, too.) The team won a prestigious award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of research of “great societal benefit.” They are just some of the scientific, mathematical and technological researchers – including College of Natural Sciences students – who have been hard at work on projects with the potential to impact lives in Texas and around the globe.

Find Winter the llama’s story and more like it at impact.utexas.edu.