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14 November 2022 Texas Memorial Museum Set to Reopen in 2023 with Renovations and New Exhibits

28 October 2022 Meeting Challenges, Celebrating 25 Years, UTeach Tackles State's Teacher Shortage

26 October 2022 Ten Faculty Members Honored With College Teaching Excellence Award

18 October 2022 NSF Award Paves Way for UT Center for Pandemic Decision Science

13 October 2022 Texas Biologics to Bolster Research in Therapeutics

05 October 2022 New UTeach Access Program Creates Pathway to Grow STEM Teacher Workforce

04 October 2022 Seven Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards

23 September 2022 Visualizing Science 2022: Illuminating the Intrinsic Beauty in Academic Research

12 September 2022 UT Austin’s Excellence Reflected in Latest U.S. News Undergraduate Rankings

08 September 2022 UT Austin Selected to Lead NSF Innovation Hub

06 September 2022 Need a Place to Study this Academic Year? We’ve Got You Covered.

12 August 2022 UT Austin Leads in New Summary of Top "Degrees of the Future"

08 July 2022 Alumni and Friends to be Inducted into Hall of Honor

10 June 2022 Natural Sciences Graduates Win Mitchell Awards

26 May 2022 Students Share Passion for Science at Undergraduate Research Forum

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05 January 2023 Cosmic Dawn III Recreates the Early Universe Epoch of Reionization in Unprecedented Detail

05 January 2023 James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe

13 December 2022 Right Time, Right Place

30 November 2022 Amateur Scientists Have Helped Astronomers Identify Nearly a Quarter-Million Galaxies

21 October 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Inaugural NAS Science Communication Award

15 August 2022 How Black Holes Might Have Influenced the First Stars

08 August 2022 Stars Shed Light on Why Stellar Populations Are So Similar in Milky Way

04 August 2022 Wide View of Early Universe Hints at Galaxy Among the Earliest Ever Detected

02 August 2022 Investment from UT Austin, Other Partners Accelerates Construction of Giant Magellan Telescope

05 July 2022 Worlds of Possibility: Gift Helps Unlock Secrets of the Universe

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

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Chemistry

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25 January 2023 More Charge Acceptors aren’t Necessarily Better for Solar Cells

24 January 2023 Chemistry Professor Earns Humboldt Award

17 January 2023 Nanoparticles Make it Easier to Turn Light into Solvated Electrons

15 December 2022 Chemistry Researcher Earns Prestigious Allen Distinguished Investigator Award

13 October 2022 ‘Smart Plastic’ Material is Step Forward Toward Soft, Flexible Robotics and Electronics

21 September 2022 Cancer Agency Awards Grant to Recruit New Faculty in Chemistry

09 September 2022 Baiz Earns Prestigious Research Fellowship

20 July 2022 Scientists Encode “Wizard of Oz” in a Vanishingly Small Plastic

03 June 2022 Devleena Samanta Invents Ways to Detect Molecules in Living Cells

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

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26 January 2023 AI Master’s Program Launches at UT Austin With Ability to Serve Thousands

14 October 2022 Can Robots and Humans Co-exist in Public? UT Campus Study Will Offer Answers

06 October 2022 Rachel Ward Receives NSF TRIPODS Phase 2 Award for Data Science Research

29 August 2022 Computer Science Professor Looks to Improve Accessible Technologies

05 August 2022 New Partnership Will Scale Up Investment in Ethical AI Research and Innovation

04 August 2022 Researchers Aim to Make Computer Networks Easier to Change on the Fly

25 May 2022 Inderjit Dhillon Named AAAI Fellow

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

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Human Ecology

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30 November 2022 Doctors and Patients Have a New Tool to Aid in Conversations About Diet

10 October 2022 Shining a Light on How Bilingual Children Learn

29 September 2022 7 Insights About Aging from College of Natural Sciences Researchers

19 September 2022 Cognitive Impairment in Hispanic Adults Linked to Discrimination Experiences

12 August 2022 Young Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults Have Worse Mental Health than Older Ones

21 June 2022 How to Best Support LGTBQ Youth, According to Science

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

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Integrative Biology

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23 January 2023 Moran to Receive Waksman Award in Microbiology from NAS

02 December 2022 Oh Bee-have! UT Scientist’s Book for Children Highlights the Many Facets of Bees

02 September 2022 After Fire Damages Stengl Lost Pines, Scientists Say Discovery Will Rise from the Ashes

27 June 2022 Virus Discovery Offers Clues About Origins of Complex Life

20 June 2022 Holy Bat Memory! Frog-Eating Bats Remember Ringtones Years Later

02 June 2022 Legacy of Colonialism Influences Science in the Caribbean

01 June 2022 How Electric Fish Were Able to Evolve Electric Organs

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

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Marine Science

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31 October 2022 Newly Opened Patton Center for Marine Science Education Offers Opportunities to Explore

13 September 2022 These Tiny Coral Reef Fish Parents Decide When Their Embryos Hatch

29 August 2022 Adding Predictability to the Carbon Market

18 August 2022 The University of Texas at Austin Selects Director for Marine Science Institute

27 June 2022 Virus Discovery Offers Clues About Origins of Complex Life

22 June 2022 Nielsen Named One of Five National Academies Early-Career Research Fellows

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

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Mathematics

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06 October 2022 Rachel Ward Receives NSF TRIPODS Phase 2 Award for Data Science Research

23 September 2022 Maggie Miller Receives Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

14 June 2022 Mathematician Awarded Distinguished Researcher Award

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

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Molecular Biosciences

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24 January 2023 How Amphibious Plants Rewired a Gas Exchange Pathway to Survive in Water

23 January 2023 McLellan Wins Major Awards from Welch Foundation, National Academy

04 January 2023 How a CRISPR Protein Might Yield New Tests for Many Viruses

17 November 2022 Dense Bacterial Populations Create Mutant Breeding Grounds for Antibiotic Resistance

10 November 2022 Students Win Big at International Synthetic Biology Competition

20 September 2022 New Research Advances Fight Against Human Metapneumovirus

15 September 2022 Potential New Drug Target Could Boost Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Drugs

25 August 2022 New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment

07 July 2022 Scientists Hijack Bacteria To Ease Drug Manufacturing

01 June 2022 Jason McLellan Named Finalist for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists

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

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Neuroscience

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01 June 2022 How Electric Fish Were Able to Evolve Electric Organs

31 May 2022 Assistant Professor Lief Fenno is Developing New Tools to Treat Addiction

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

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Physics

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18 January 2023 Remembering High-Energy Physicist Roy Schwitters

15 November 2022 Inspired by Biology, Physicists Make More Efficient Motors

12 October 2022 Department of Energy Selects Timothy Liao for Graduate Student Research Program

28 September 2022 Mini Robots Reveal Links Between Bird Flocks and General Relativity

14 September 2022 Steven Weinberg’s Test of Quantum Mechanics Might Soon Be Realized

26 July 2022 Scientists Capture First-ever View of a Hidden Quantum Phase in a 2D Crystal

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

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Statistics

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05 December 2022 Health Benefits of Wind Power Rely on Which Fossil Fuel Plants It Replaces

06 October 2022 Rachel Ward Receives NSF TRIPODS Phase 2 Award for Data Science Research

15 August 2022 Delays in Contact Tracing Impeded Early COVID-19 Containment, Researchers Find

08 July 2022 Adolescent Stress Can Be Reduced by 30-Minute Online ‘Mindset’ Training

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

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03 October 2022 Stress Makes Couples Focus on Their Partner’s Worst Habits

17 August 2022 Bringing Developmental Biology to South Texas

29 July 2022 Race to Find Earliest Galaxy Heats Up

22 July 2022 Can Dogs Take Bite Out of Neighborhood Crime?

27 June 2022 From Knots to Fluids to Extra Dimensions, Experts Weigh in on Mathematical Challenges

20 June 2022 Attackers Can Syphon Crypto Keys with Newly Discovered Attack

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

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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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Point of Discovery

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13 December 2022 Right Time, Right Place

13 July 2022 Neutralizing Crazy Ants

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)

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Undergraduates' Weekly

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23 January 2023 Research, Travel & Work (Oh My!)

16 January 2023 Making the Day Off a Day On

11 January 2023 Charting Your Path

07 December 2022 3 Tips for Finals Readiness

30 November 2022 Announcing New Supports

16 November 2022 Gratitude and Your Brain

09 November 2022 First-Gen Week

02 November 2022 Venture into the Safe-Scary

26 October 2022 Healthy Horns Up

19 October 2022 Where Longhorns Share

12 October 2022 Concentration Consideration

05 October 2022 Time for a Contest

28 September 2022 Time to Take Stock

21 September 2022 Make Your Impact

14 September 2022 If Coursework Is a Struggle

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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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CNS Honors

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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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