News: Accolades
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
McLellan Wins Major Awards from Welch Foundation, National Academy
Jason McLellan receives the NAS Award in Molecular Biology and the Norman Hackerman Award from the Welch Foundation.
Faculty Member Honored with Early Career Award
Maria Arredondo, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences and the Department of Psychology, has been named a Rising Star...
Chemistry Researcher Earns Prestigious Allen Distinguished Investigator Award
Yi Lu, a professor of chemistry and the Richard J. V. Johnson – Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, has been honored with an Allen Distinguished...
Students Win Big at International Synthetic Biology Competition
Undergraduate students at UT Austin are recognized for their work which could save bats from a condition that is often deadly and dangerous.
Oden Institute News
James Chelikowsky Wins Feynman Prize
Chelikowsky, Director of the Center for Computational Materials at the Oden Institute, received the 2022 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory.
Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Inaugural NAS Science Communication Award
Arianna Long of UT Austin has been recognized for her communication of research on the evolution of the universe.
Seven Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
Learn about faculty members from UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences who have been awarded CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation.
Maggie Miller Receives Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
UT Austin alumna Maggie Miller, whose research focuses on geometric topology in three to five dimensions, was awarded a prize recognizing women in mathematics.
Baiz Earns Prestigious Research Fellowship
Carlos Baiz, associate professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the...
Researchers Aim to Make Computer Networks Easier to Change on the Fly
Computer scientist Aditya Akella has received an award from the National Science Foundation to develop runtime programmable networks that can respond to real-time changes, like...