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Three Members of Natural Sciences Recognized for Teaching Excellence

The honor rewards excellence in teaching by recognizing tenured faculty members who have continuously provided significant contributions to education throughout their career, especially at the...

Volker Bromm, Philip Uri Treisman and Lorenzo Alvisi

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Computer Scientist Earns Prestigious ACM Award for Encryption Achievement

This award recognizes the outstanding young computer professional of the year for a recent major technical or service contribution that was made at 35 years...

Brent Waters

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Biology Professor Nancy Moran Receives Lifetime Contribution Award

The award is intended to recognize individuals with “a record of truly outstanding research that has contributed broadly to the field of Molecular Biology and...

Nancy Moran inspects bees in a rooftop hive atop the Patterson Labs Building. Photo by Bill McCullough for Quanta Magazine.

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UT Austin Scientist Keji Lai Wins Presidential Early Career Award

Physicist Keji Lai and a faculty member in engineering have been selected to receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Keji Lai stands in front of a chalkboard with equations

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Chemistry Chair Receives Major Award from American Chemical Society

“For outstanding contributions to physical and biophysical chemistry, especially work on protein and RNA folding, protein aggregation, and effects of molecular crowding in cells.”

Dave Thirumalai

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Textiles and Apparel Students Win Prestigious National Awards

Avani Patel and Seihak Long have both won major awards for their innovative ideas.

UT textiles and apparel faculty members Nancy Prideaux and Sara Stevens accompanied the scholarship winners to the YMA awards dinner in New York. Left to right: Nancy Prideaux, Debby Garcia, Avani Patel, Clare Moore, Tami Gumilar, Daeci Dinh, Sara Northcutt, and Sara Stevens.

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UT Austin Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Jonathan Sessler of the Department of Chemistry and George Georgiou of the Department of Molecular Biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin have been...

Headshots of George Georgiou and Jonathan Sessler juxtaposed

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Neuroscience professor wins NSF CAREER award

Laura Colgin studies the relationship between brain waves and memory during sleep.

Portrait of a woman

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Two Natural Sciences Faculty Receive 2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards

The awards program is one of the nation’s largest monetary teaching recognition programs in higher education, honoring outstanding performance in the classroom and dedication to...

Regents Award

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Two Assistant Professors Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation

The CAREER awards are intended to recognize promising young faculty and support their research with five years of funding.

Işil Dillig and Ilya Finkelstein