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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

Texas Leader

Alumna Supports her Love of Nature through Gifts to College of Natural Sciences

October 30, 2019 • by Staff Writer

The story of how this Lost Pines treasure landed within the College of Natural Sciences begins with UT alumna Lorraine Stengl, known to many as...

Lorraine Wyer and Casey Stengl stand in hats in an outdoor area at Stengl Lost Pines BIological Station with wildflowers in the foreground and a building farther away

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Visualizing Science 2019: Revealing Hidden Splendor in Research

October 24, 2019 • by 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 Cason Hunwick

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...

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Looking Back on Apollo 11, Seeing UT Reflected in NASA History

July 9, 2019 • by Steven E. Franklin

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the U.S. flag

Department of Molecular BIosciences

Turning Plant Pests into Helpers

June 24, 2019 • by Staff Writer

Aphids are an enemy for most plants now, but the latest work from a team led by Jeffrey Barrick may make them a crop's new...