News: Accolades
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Molecular Biosciences
McLellan Named Recipient of the 2024 IVI-SK Bioscience Park MahnHoon Award
The International Vaccine Institutes Bioscience Park MahnHoon Award recognizes his role in the development of several vaccines.
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UT News
Educators Named Recipients of President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards
Jonathan Partridge, an assistant professor of instruction in the Biology Instruction Office, and Jennifer Austin, a mathematics associate professor of instruction, received awards.
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Chemistry Professor Receives Sloan Research Fellowship and Mark Young Scholar Award
UT Austin’s Zachariah Page was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow and won a top ACS young scholar award for 2024.
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MacDonald Announced as Winner of Inaugural Hill Prize in Physical Sciences
Allan MacDonald of The University of Texas at Austin received the award for research with high-impact potential.
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Two Faculty Members Selected as 2023 ACM Fellows
Computer scientists Aditya Akella and Emmett Witchel have been named 2023 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Zuckerman Receives the NAS Michael and Sheila Held Prize
David Zuckerman is a professor of computer science whose research focuses primarily on pseudorandomness and the role of randomness in computing.
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UT Austin Physicists Receive Keck Foundation Boost for Quantum Materials Research
Edoardo Baldini leads a team developing a new approach to stabilize useful quantum properties of atomically thin materials for far longer and at higher temperatures.
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Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Two Members of Natural Sciences Named to UT Austin’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Ruth Buskirk and Michael Marder are among the 2023 inductees to The University of Texas at Austin’s prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
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Oden Institute & Department of Computer Science
Keshav Pingali Receives Ken Kennedy Award for High Performance and Parallel Computing
IEEE has announced its 2023 Ken Kennedy Award for University of Texas at Austin computer scientist Keshav Pingali.
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Computer Scientist Inducted into Internet Hall of Fame
Simon Lam has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for creating the first secure sockets layer in 1993 for internet applications.
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