News: Accolades

The Biodiversity Center director penned “Armadillos to Ziziphus,” a celebration of life in the Texas Hill Country.

Etienne Vouga, a computer science professor at UT Austin, has received a 2024 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.

Devleena Samanta is the first faculty member from the University of Texas at Austin to receive the early-career award in the chemistry category.

The annual recognition highlights researchers with extraordinary citation records and societal impact.

Brent Waters and Hovav Shacham received recognition from the International Association for Cryptologic Research.

UT Austin student Alexia Hartzell has been named a recipient of the prestigious Department of Energy award.

The awards from the National Science Foundation support innovative work by earlier-career faculty.

Pingali has received the Programming Languages Achievement Award by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).

Arbel Harpak, recently named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, researches how genetic makeup can have dramatically different impacts on health and evolution in...

Michela Marinelli received a Rigor Champions Prize for fostering scientific transparency through her course Analytical Skepticism.