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5 Things UT Science Tells Us About Healthy Couples

January 24, 2020 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

12 Ways Texas Science Innovators Made the Most of this Year

December 23, 2019 • by Christine Sinatra

Here are a handful of ways that members of our science and mathematics community brandished their entrepreneurial spirit this year.

3 Students wearing t-shirts celebrating 1,000+ patents jump for joy in front of the UT Austin tower

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Melissa Kemp Combines Art and Science in Study of Lizards

December 12, 2019 • by college of natural sciences staff writer

Melissa Kemp, an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, studies how extinction, biological diversification and colonization are shaped by environmental upheavals.

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Faculty Empower Students in Curie Diaries Event

December 10, 2019 • by Grace Dickens

The Curie Diaries Event at UT Austin aims to create a space for female professors and students to discuss their experiences.

Four women in conversation, standing around a table

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Urbain Weyemi Looks for the Unexpected to Better Understand Cancer

November 20, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

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Visualizing Science 2019: Revealing Hidden Splendor in Research

October 24, 2019 • by college of natural sciences staff writer

A network of gut bacteria of tadpoles from nine ponds in East Texas. Each color is a pond, and each dot is a different species of bacteria.

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Feliciano Giustino Uses Quantum Mechanics to Create New Materials

October 7, 2019 • by college of natural sciences staff writer

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Giustino stands in front of a wall of LCD screens displaying computational models

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5 Ways UT Science is Fighting Back on Microplastics

September 19, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Jace Tunnell holds a plastic nurdle between thumb and forefinger

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Explaining the Science: The Potential of Bacteriophages in a Post-Antibiotics World

August 16, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Artist rendering of bacteriophages in yellow on bacterial cells in blue.

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Katherine Freese Has Ideas to Support Detection of Dark Matter

August 8, 2019 • by Larissa Herold

Learn about Katherine Freese's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Physics and her work with developing theories about dark matter and what happened at...