News: Accolades
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
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.
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.
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...
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.
Molecular Biosciences Professor Honored for Outstanding Teaching
Janice Fischer is honored for her outstanding teaching as a professor of molecular biosciences and director of the Biology Instructional Office at UT Austin.
McLellan Honored for Contributions to COVID-19 Vaccines
Jason McLellan, UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, has received the 2021 Shirley Bird Perry Longhorn Citizenship Award
Department of Computer Science
Bill Press Named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Bill Press will provide scientific perspective to the White House as a member of President Biden's PCAST
Natural Sciences Researchers Win President’s Award for Global Learning
A team with two CNS undergraduates of UT Austin were involved with research about the relationship between undergraduates' mental health and their social support networks...
Three Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
UT Austin assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Chemistry have been selected for NSF CAREER awards.
Research on Language Learning Yields Mitchell Prize for UT Austin Statisticians
Giorgio Paulon and Abhra Sarkar researched how nonnative English speakers learned another language's tonal differences.
