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19 May 2022 Meet the Dean's Honored Graduates of 2022

18 May 2022 UT Researchers Aim to Change the Cancer Equation

18 May 2022 Student Employee of the Year Helps Community Through Her Research

12 May 2022 Organization Spearheaded by Graduating Seniors Seeks to Improve Access to Research

12 May 2022 Faculty Member Tony Gonzalez Earns President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award

11 May 2022 Graduating Senior David Sarabia Found Passion for Research in FRI

29 April 2022 Senior Uses Passion for Health Communication to Create Popular Blog

27 April 2022 NSF Awards Graduate Research Fellowships to 22 CNS Students

25 April 2022 UT Austin Launches Resource to Connect STEM-Interested Youth, Teachers to Programming

20 April 2022 Three Undergraduate Students Named 2022 Goldwater Scholars

29 March 2022 Graduate Programs in Science, Math, Computing at UT Austin Highly Ranked by U.S. News

10 March 2022 State of the College Address

07 March 2022 The University of Texas at Austin is Now Officially an Age-Friendly University

07 March 2022 Alumna Earns Top Honor Linked to Stable Isotope Research

04 March 2022 Introducing a New Graduate Portfolio in Computational Medicine

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27 April 2022 Supernova Reveals Secrets to Texas-led Team of Astronomers

18 April 2022 McDonald Observatory Holds Dark Skies Festival April 29-30

06 April 2022 Two NASA Post-Doctoral Fellows Coming to UT Austin

06 April 2022 World’s Largest International Dark Sky Reserve Created by McDonald Observatory, Community Partners

17 March 2022 Astronomer Stella Offner Receives Delta Young Astronomer Lectureship Award

08 March 2022 Giant Magellan Telescope Awards Final Enclosure Design Contract

14 February 2022 Astronomer Brendan Bowler Receives 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship

07 February 2022 Bill Wren, Tireless Promoter of Dark Skies, Retires from McDonald Observatory

20 December 2021 Probing the Secrets of Dead Stars and Planetary Remnants

01 December 2021 Astronomers Discover Strangely Massive Black Hole in Milky Way Satellite Galaxy

08 November 2021 National Academy Ranks Giant Magellan Telescope Among Top Astronomy Priorities

18 October 2021 Weizmann Institute of Science Joins Giant Magellan Telescope Project

22 June 2021 Astronomy Educator Receives Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship

20 May 2021 Graduating Senior Finds Passions in Exoplanets and Outreach

18 May 2021 Astronomers Disprove Planet Orbiting Nearby Barnard’s Star

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Chemistry

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24 May 2022 Undergraduate Research Played Role in Paper Tied to Early Career Award

03 May 2022 When Good RNA Turns Bad

28 April 2022 Sessler Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

08 February 2022 Zak Page Named a 2022 Cottrell Scholar

08 December 2021 Yi Lu Honored Among Top Inventors

06 December 2021 Sodium-based Material Yields Stable Alternative to Lithium-ion Batteries

07 October 2021 New Model Reveals How Chromosomes Get Packed Up

01 September 2021 Electrochemistry Pioneer and Texas Science Legend Allen Bard Retires

02 August 2021 Chemists’ New Effort Aims to Optimize Materials by Exploiting their Defects

05 July 2021 MasSpec Pen Shows Promise in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

26 May 2021 Carlos Baiz and Shelley Payne Earn Prestigious Teaching Awards

26 May 2021 Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Has a Glowing New Weapon

12 May 2021 Honoring the Life of Marye Anne Fox, Former VP for Research at UT Austin

28 April 2021 Jonathan Sessler Elected to National Academy of Sciences

20 April 2021 UT Chemistry Researchers Encode Jane Austen Quote in a Polymer

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Computer Science

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02 May 2022 UT Austin Selected for EcoCAR EV Challenge to Make Next-Gen Vehicle

21 March 2022 Computer Science Researcher Aims to Automate Software Development

21 February 2022 The Importance of Ethics in Computer Science

19 January 2022 Waters Named ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery

10 November 2021 Shacham Receives NSF Grant for Cybersecurity Research

12 October 2021 Neural Networks' Use for Personalized Treatment for Bilingual Aphasia Patients

22 September 2021 Computer Scientist Named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

15 September 2021 As AI Becomes Ubiquitous, There are Risks, Says New AI100 Report

14 September 2021 New Materials Could Lead to Computers That Work Like the Human Brain

13 September 2021 UT Austin Climbs in Latest National Undergraduate Rankings

09 September 2021 Ethical Artificial Intelligence is Focus of New Robotics Program

15 June 2021 Kristen Grauman Named Finalist in 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

21 May 2021 Graduating Computer Science Student Leaders Look Back on Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

13 April 2021 Aaronson Receives ACM Prize in Computing

04 March 2021 Exploring Passive RFID Tag Use For Sensory Technology

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Human Ecology

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11 February 2022 Two Faculty Named Association for Psychological Science Rising Stars

08 February 2022 Weight Gain in Pregnancy May Be Linked to Later Growth Patterns in Daughters

26 October 2021 How a Natural Disaster Can Bring Couples Closer

10 August 2021 Black Families Are Combating the Effects of Discrimination on Their Children Through Talks

29 July 2021 Older Adults Are Happier When Space Matches Personality

08 July 2021 Natural Sciences Welcomes Two Visiting Harrington Faculty Fellows

28 June 2021 Evidence Against Physically Punishing Kids Is Clear, Researchers Say

21 June 2021 Blaming the Pandemic for Stress Leaves Couples Happier

13 June 2021 E-Cookbook Promotes Sustainable Food Sourcing and Raises Funds for Charity

12 May 2021 The Case Against Spanking (Audio)

30 April 2021 Two CNS Faculty Receive President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards

16 April 2021 Nutrition Researchers Developing Digital Platform for Teachers

24 March 2021 Twin Study Shows Why Physical Punishment Leads to Child Behavior Problems

08 February 2021 New Model Can Help Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

04 February 2021 School Gardens Linked With Kids Eating More Vegetables

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Integrative Biology

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23 May 2022 Living Laboratories: Field Stations Offer Opportunities for Real-World Science

28 March 2022 Invading Hordes of Crazy Ants May Have Finally Met Their Kryptonite

24 February 2022 Some Trees May Play an Outsized Role in the Fight on Global Warming

14 February 2022 Evolutionary Roots and that Loving Feeling

13 January 2022 Frog Pandemic (Audio)

10 December 2021 Tropical Forests’ Recovery from Deforestation is Surprisingly Fast

07 December 2021 Switchgrass Genes Offer Advantages as Climate Change Tool

03 December 2021 Potential New Gene Editing Tools Uncovered

30 September 2021 Like Their Domestic Cousins, Native Bees are Hurt by Pesticides

22 September 2021 Computer Scientist Named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

21 September 2021 Technological Leaps Help Biologists Study Quickly Changing Landscapes

11 August 2021 New Tumor Cell Tracking System Aims to Understand Cancer Treatment Resistance

04 August 2021 Combining Agrochemicals More Harmful to Bees than Previously Understood

08 July 2021 Unlocking Secrets of Some of the World’s Smallest Viruses

21 June 2021 Study on Climate Change Impacts on Plants Could Lead to Better Conservation Strategies

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Marine Science

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04 April 2022 A More Nuanced Approach is Needed to Manage Coral Reef Ecosystems

23 November 2021 Unlikely Partners: Bees and Turtles

12 October 2021 Reading the Tea Leaves

29 September 2021 Nurdle Patrol Expands its Citizen Scientist Effort to Fight Plastic Pollution on Beaches

20 September 2021 Loss of Picky-Eating Fishes Threatens Coral Reef Food Webs

30 August 2021 Finding the Goldilocks Zone for Fish at Oil Platforms

28 April 2021 Bay Education Center is Fully Repaired and Reopened after Hurricane Harvey Damage

22 April 2021 Climate-friendly Microbes Chomp Dead Plants Without Releasing Heat-trapping Methane

23 February 2021 Record Number of Turtles Rescued at University of Texas Marine Science Institute

08 February 2021 Jessica O’Connell Connects Ecology Research with Local Conservation Efforts

26 October 2020 Graduate Student Receives Prestigious Jess Hay Fellowship

21 October 2020 7 Emerging Scientific Leaders Among Recipients of Stengl-Wyer Research Support

01 September 2020 New Initiative Aims to Reveal the Origins of Complex Life

13 April 2020 Marine Scientist Brett Baker Receives Simons Award

09 April 2020 14 Natural Sciences Students Receive Prestigious NSF Fellowships

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Mathematics

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23 February 2022 Remembering and Celebrating UT Austin’s First Black Math Ph.D.s

19 December 2021 Getting Math and Physics on the Same Page

02 December 2021 Math for Poets: Postdoc Heather Wilber Wins AWM Dissertation Prize

21 October 2021 An Algorithm for EMS Response

20 May 2021 Graduating Senior Finds Passions in Exoplanets and Outreach

26 April 2021 Mathematician Receives Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching

13 November 2020 Treisman Receives James Bryant Conant Award from Education Commission of the States

17 July 2020 Randomized Sampling Could Help Solve Billions of Equations Simultaneously

10 March 2020 Demographics Linked to Choice Not to Vaccinate Children in Texas, Study Finds

08 November 2019 Chen Selected as an AMS Fellow

21 October 2019 Karen Uhlenbeck Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

18 October 2019 Remembering Eminent UT Austin Mathematician John Tate

16 August 2019 UT Austin Mathematician Wins Clay Research Award

04 April 2019 Imaging, Reimagined

18 March 2019 Mathematics’ Highest Prize Awarded to UT Austin’s Karen Uhlenbeck

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Molecular Biosciences

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13 May 2022 Lauren Ehrlich Named among The Alcalde’s Texas 10

27 April 2022 Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste

26 April 2022 Live Cell Imaging Reveals New Clues About Processes Linked to Birth Defects

14 April 2022 UT Biologist Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

14 March 2022 New Vaccine Advances Could Help Against More Viral Illnesses

03 March 2022 Dried Bacteria Could Revolutionize Testing, Laboratory Science

02 March 2022 Gene Editing Gets Safer Thanks to Redesigned Protein

22 February 2022 A New Way to Disarm Antibiotic Resistance in Deadly Bacteria

14 February 2022 Unraveling How One of the Most Important Cell Types Form

08 February 2022 Dan Leahy Selected as Fellow of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

11 January 2022 Ancient Cousins, New AI Could Reveal Clues About Causes of Birth Defects

04 January 2022 Keiko Torii Receives Asahi Prize

14 December 2021 Put No Effort into Teaching (and Other Advice Janice Fischer Ignored)

09 December 2021 UT Austin's McLellan Receives O'Donnell Award in Medicine

03 December 2021 Potential New Gene Editing Tools Uncovered

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Neuroscience

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08 April 2022 Bringing Music to the Texas Science Community in Intense Times

15 November 2021 As We Develop, the Brain Connects Lessons Learned Differently

07 June 2021 First Glimpse of Brains Retrieving Mistaken Memories Observed

28 May 2021 Xue-Xin Wei Asks Basic Questions about the Nature of Intelligence

07 May 2021 Discovery about Brain Cells that Promote Healing from Strokes Offers Treatment Insights

13 April 2021 Two Natural Sciences Undergraduates Selected as Goldwater Scholars

08 March 2021 New Study Shows How Deep-learning Technology Can Improve Brain Imaging

24 February 2021 Misinformation, the Brain and Tricks for Analyzing Data Accurately

27 October 2020 Neuroscientist Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

19 August 2020 International Project to Provide Detailed View of New Complexities Linked to Synapses

14 July 2020 Brain’s Immune Cells are a Central Driver of Alcohol Use Disorder

07 May 2020 Scientists Discover Molecular Culprits Linked to Alcohol Use Disorders

06 April 2020 Social Support Aids Recovery from Drug Addiction, Study Suggests

27 February 2020 The Next 50 Years: Thinking Outside the Brain

12 February 2020 What Neuroscience Suggests to Better Your Study Habits

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Physics

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25 March 2022 New Phononic Crystal Might Enable Better Mobile Communications

09 March 2022 A Physicist’s Search for Beauty (Audio)

21 February 2022 Remembering Steven Weinberg (Audio)

08 November 2021 New Gravitational Wave Catalog Reveals Black Holes of ‘All Shapes and Sizes’

18 October 2021 Markert Recognized as a 2021 American Physical Society Fellow

07 October 2021 New Model Reveals How Chromosomes Get Packed Up

14 September 2021 New Materials Could Lead to Computers That Work Like the Human Brain

29 June 2021 First Confirmed Detection of Neutron Stars Crashing into Black Holes

20 May 2021 Graduating Senior Finds Passions in Exoplanets and Outreach

06 April 2021 Cosmic Rumbles: New Faculty Probe Universe for Gravitational Waves

19 March 2021 Most Flexible 2D Material Discovered at UT Austin

15 February 2021 Four Natural Sciences Faculty Receive Sloan Research Fellowships

11 January 2021 Marder Receives University’s Civitatis Award

30 October 2020 A Cornucopia of Newly Confirmed Gravitational Wave Detections

27 October 2020 Department of Energy Invests in High-power Laser Network, including UT Austin

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04 April 2022 Professor Layla Parast Aims to Improve Healthcare Using Biostatistics

04 April 2022 UT Austin Offers New Undergraduate Major in Statistics and Data Science

02 February 2022 COVID Forecasting Method Proves It Can Reliably Guide City's Response

18 January 2022 Adapting the Frequency of COVID-19 Testing Depending on Transmission Rate and Community Immunity

12 July 2021 Research on Language Learning Yields Mitchell Prize for UT Austin Statisticians

08 July 2021 Natural Sciences Welcomes Two Visiting Harrington Faculty Fellows

18 June 2021 System Linked to Operational Hospitals, Shorter Lockdowns, Lives Saved

20 May 2021 Forecasting Resources Needed to Protect People Experiencing Homelessness During COVID-19

30 April 2021 Two CNS Faculty Receive President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards

01 April 2021 Undetected Coronavirus Variant Was in at Least 15 Countries Before its Discovery

05 February 2021 Repeated Testing for COVID-19 is Vital, Economic and Public Health Analysis Shows

15 September 2020 New Dashboards Launched to Track COVID-19 Across Texas Communities

12 August 2020 Early Spread of COVID-19 Appears Far Greater Than Initially Reported

31 July 2020 New Tool to Guide Decisions on Social Distancing Uses Hospital Data and Emphasizes Protecting the Vulnerable

02 June 2020 New Online Master’s Degree in Data Science is a First for The University of Texas at Austin

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17 May 2022 Biology Honors Senior Looks Forward to Practicing Compassionate Health Care in the Rio Grande Valley

06 April 2022 Fixing Racial Bias in AI

23 February 2022 AI Bests Expert Human Players at Video Game

21 December 2021 Astronomers Talk James Webb Telescope Ahead of Historic Launch

20 December 2021 Longhorns Make the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Science

19 November 2021 UT COVID-19 Experts Offer Pro Tips for Holiday Gatherings

06 July 2021 Mathematician Seeks to Bring Quantum Field Theory into Mainstream Math

17 May 2021 Changing the World, One Graduate at a Time

12 May 2021 Alumni Honor Three CNS Faculty with Texas 10 Award

07 May 2021 'Last Resort' Antibiotic Pops Bacteria Like Balloons

08 April 2021 New Tool Can Identify Meat and Fish Fraud in Seconds

29 March 2021 How to Retrain for Social Interactions

08 February 2021 New Model Can Help Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

20 November 2020 Longhorn Students, Researchers in the Pandemic Fight

05 October 2020 Science Faculty Featured in Newspaper’s Black in Academia Series

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Giving

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16 December 2020 Gifts From the Heart Lead To Clinical Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine

09 December 2020 The Hearts and Minds Behind AI

01 December 2020 Power Plants: Professor Billie Lee Turner supports his passion for botanical research

25 March 2020 Support Texas Science Students Via the Student Emergency Fund

07 February 2020 Alum Prem Mahendroo and the Research Bug

21 October 2019 Gift to UT Austin Will Advance Programs in Biodiversity and Ecology

19 December 2017 UT Alum Gives Back in Support of Mathematics

17 August 2017 From Student to Philanthropist: Abell’s Transformational Gift Creates New Opportunities

15 May 2017 Alumnus Helped Usher in Age of Personal Computing and Guide Lunar Astronauts Home

14 October 2016 Alum and Former NASA Computer Programmer Wants Others to Have Opportunities She Had

15 March 2016 Natural Sciences Alum Invests in Neurodegenerative Research

30 October 2015 Harnessing the Power of Science and Community

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09 March 2022 A Physicist’s Search for Beauty (Audio)

21 February 2022 Remembering Steven Weinberg (Audio)

13 January 2022 Frog Pandemic (Audio)

16 August 2021 Presenting the Texas Podcast Network (Audio)

12 May 2021 The Case Against Spanking (Audio)

04 March 2021 Do Sick Animals Socially Distance? (Audio)

14 October 2020 Artificial Intelligence Revs Up Evolution’s Clock (Audio)

21 August 2020 Ask the COVID-19 Experts (Audio)

08 June 2020 The Next 50 Years: Anybody Out There? (Audio)

28 April 2020 The Next 50 Years: A Model of Life on the Atomic Scale (Audio)

27 March 2020 Science Amid the Social Distance (Audio)

10 March 2020 The Next 50 Years: An A.I. Designed to Make Life Better (Audio)

14 February 2020 The Next 50 Years: Your Perfect Meal and Exercise Plan (Audio)

10 January 2020 The Next 50 Years: A Global Census of Life (Audio)

19 December 2019 Coming Soon: A New Podcast Miniseries (Audio)

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Undergraduates' Weekly

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13 April 2022 A Virtual High Five

30 March 2022 Ready, Set... Go!

23 March 2022 Think About 3 Minutes

09 March 2022 Telescopes, Flowers, and AI (Oh, My!)

02 March 2022 Lots of Years, Lots of Lessons

23 February 2022 Share Your Research

16 February 2022 Recognizing Outstanding Students

09 February 2022 Celebrating Black History Month

19 January 2022 Welcome to a new semester

08 December 2021 Plan some time for yourself

01 December 2021 Show some love to your deadlines

24 November 2021 Thanksgiving offers a special opportunity

17 November 2021 Guiding You On Your Path

10 November 2021 What A Wonderful World

03 November 2021 Who's First?

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Messages from the Dean

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21 March 2022 Flexible Work Arrangement Survey and Performance Appraisal Update

10 March 2022 State of the College Address

09 December 2021 Moving Forward Together

05 August 2021 Commitments to Care and to Science

24 July 2021 Mourning the Loss of Professor Steven Weinberg

01 March 2021 First Day Message from Interim Dean David Vanden Bout

19 January 2021 Dean Goldbart Will Be Provost of Stony Brook University

12 November 2020 Committing to Equity

27 October 2020 Supporting our Students in the Days Ahead

02 October 2020 Standing with our International Community

10 September 2020 Celebrating Eon, a New Art Installation in Welch Hall

14 July 2020 Working Safely through the Fall

13 July 2020 A Commitment to Inclusion in Texas Mathematics and Science

29 June 2020 Your Ideas in a Time of Momentum

17 June 2020 New Lateral Communities Initiative

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06 July 2020 There's a Sky Above the Sky: Astronaut Scholar Teddy Hsieh Takes Aim

18 December 2019 Meet Health Science Scholar Milan Stokes

18 December 2019 Meet Dean’s Scholar Wyatt Reeves

18 December 2019 Meet Polymathic Scholar Mia Ramirez

18 December 2019 CNS Honors Today

15 April 2019 Meet Jacob Van Geffen, Dean's Scholars Grad

15 April 2019 Meet Sana Saboowala, Polymathic Scholars Alum

15 April 2019 Meet Wesley Godfrey, Health Science Scholars Alum

15 April 2019 CNS Honors Today

15 April 2019 Dean's Scholars Parents' Letter

15 April 2019 Polymathic Scholars Parents' Letter

15 April 2019 Health Science Scholars Parents' Letter

20 March 2019 CNS Honors Today

19 March 2019 Dean's Scholars Alumni Letter

19 March 2019 Polymathic Scholars Alumni News

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