News: Alumni
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
How UT Scientists Contributed to Nobel-Winning Gravitational Wave Discovery
No scientific discovery happens in isolation. See how UT Austin scientists and alumni are changing the world.
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Alumnus Helped Usher in Age of Personal Computing and Guide Lunar Astronauts Home
Bob O'Rear said his time in graduate school on the Forty Acres made a huge mark on his career for introducing him to astrophysics and...
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Meet Six Incredible Women from UT Austin Science History
From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of...
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Charles Fraser Mends Little Hearts
Charles Fraiser, former Surgeon-in-Chief at Texas Children's Hopital in Houston, now works at UT Austin's Dell Medical School and talks about his career.
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Cancer-Fighting Faculty Member and Alum Made Key Strides for Patients
HER2 breast cancer met its match when a faculty member and industry scientist and alumna of The University of Texas at Austin made contributions working...
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The Last First Planetary Mission
University of Texas at Austin alumnus Alan Stern describes the challenges, and the joys, of the last first mission to a planet.
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Physics Alum a Lead on Gravitational Waves Discovery
UT Austin alumnus David Reitze talks about an event that happened in September or more than a billion years ago, depending on how you look...
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First Doctoral Degree at UT Awarded 100 Years Ago
In 1915, The University of Texas at Austin awarded its first Ph.D. ever to zoologist Carl Gottfried Hartman. Hartman would go on to become one...
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Scientist-Artists Bring Animals to Life in Japanese-Inspired Prints
Two researchers at the Texas Natural Science Center are combining art and science in a unique form that highlights a beauty in dead animals and...
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