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Biology Honors Senior Looks Forward to Practicing Compassionate Health Care in the Rio Grande Valley

Biology honors senior Brian Chavez is one of a select few in the graduating Class of 2022 that The University of Texas at Austin has...

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Sessler Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Jonathan Sessler of UT Austin joins 22 others on the College of Natural Sciences faculty who have been elected to the American Academy.

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NSF Awards Graduate Research Fellowships to 22 UT Natural Sciences Students

Eleven graduate and one undergraduate student of UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences were awarded honorable mentions by the National Science Foundation.

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Astronomer Stella Offner Receives Delta Young Astronomer Lectureship Award

Each year, the award is given to one or two international scholars under the age of 45.

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Astronomer Brendan Bowler Receives 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship

UT Austin assistant professor of astronomy, Brendan Bowler, has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics for his work related...

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Zak Page Named a 2022 Cottrell Scholar

For Zachariah Page's research in materials chemistry, he has been selected as a 2022 Cottrell Scholar.

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Department of Molecular Biosciences

Dan Leahy Selected as Fellow of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology selected Molecular Bioscience Professor Daniel Leahy for the honor.

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Department of Computer Science

Waters Named ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery

The award goes only to highly distinguished computer scientists representing the top 1% of ACM members. 

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Department of Molecular Biosciences

Keiko Torii Receives Asahi Prize

University of Texas at Austin professor of molecular biosciences Keiko Torii has won the Asahi Prize from the Asahi Shimbun Foundation in recognition of "her...

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Markert Recognized as a 2021 American Physical Society Fellow

Physicist named a 2021 APS Fellow for her research on a quark-gluon plasma that existed less than a second after the Big Bang.

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