A Big Week in Science
The first full week of October is like a science-lover's World Series: Each year, the spotlight falls on high-impact science, when day after day, a series of Nobel Prizes and other prestigious awards are announced one after another.
October 2018 brought an especially exciting several days for UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences. For the second year in a row, one of the college's alumni (James Allison) nabbed the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine; just the year before the same award was given to Michael Young. Later that same week, another big announcement came: the MacArthur Foundation announced it had awarded UT Austin chemist Livia Eberlin a MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes called "a genius award."
Point of Discovery bundled several past stories related to exciting science in the news for one "mega recap" episode.
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Update: In 2019, a UT Austin faculty member in the Cockrell School of Engineering, John Goodenough, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry during Science's Big Week.
