UT’s cluster hire initiative fosters interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together faculty with complementary expertise to address complex global challenges and advance innovative research, teaching, and service.
Putting the Power of UT to Work
UT is committed to advancing interdisciplinary research and fostering collaborative innovation through cluster hire initiatives. By strategically recruiting groups of scholars across a wide range of fields, we aim to address complex societal challenges and drive groundbreaking discoveries. Our cluster hire efforts bring together faculty members with complementary expertise, strengthening our academic community and enhancing our impact on the world. This initiative not only enriches the intellectual environment at UT but also positions the university as a leader in solving global problems through research, teaching, and service.
Research Clusters
Through It Takes a Volunteer, UT has committed $50 million over five years for a cluster hire initiative that will recruit top-tier faculty members across multiple disciplines.
Our faculty community is a critical driver of progress toward realizing UT’s ambitious Strategic Vision. The cluster hiring process enables faculty-led excellence in transdisciplinary research and teaching through a significant commitment of institutional resources.
These seven hiring clusters will foster translational research that makes life and lives better and prepare UT graduates to lead in the communities and workplaces of tomorrow.
Donde Plowman
Chancellor
