News: Graduate Students
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Cracking the Code: Why Flu Pandemics Come At the End of Flu Season
Graduate student Spencer Fox and his colleagues found strong evidence that the late timing of flu pandemics is caused by two opposing factors.
UT Austin Offers Its First Online Master’s Degree in Nutritional Sciences
The program is designed to provide a rigorous education to working professionals in nutrition or health education as they seek to advance in careers in...
Grad Students Lead the Greatest Show in Classical Physics
Glowing electric pickles, flaming money, and flying toilet paper help the Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin teach science to non-physicists, especially...
Some Bacteria Have Lived in the Human Gut Since Before We Were Human
New study suggests that evolution plays a larger role than previously known in people's intestinal-microbe makeup.
UT Austin Villa Wins at 2016 World RoboCup
The RoboCup competition challenges participants to program intelligent robotic systems to operate on their own in dynamic environments.
Supporting Pollinators Could Have Big Payoff for Texas Cotton Farmers
Researchers at UT Austin find the secret to increasing cotton production.
The Unexpected Journey of a Veteran Student and Astronomer
The educational journey of one exceptional student has taken her from translating Arabic in the Air Force to learning the secrets of the stars.
Graduate Students Ensure Science Under the Stars Shines Bright
The free, monthly public lecture series was founded and is run completely by students in the Plant Biology and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) graduate...
Froggy Went a Courtin'
A graduate student and her advisor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin have discovered that female frogs are also prone to the...
Graduate Student Sisters Among Growing Trend Toward More Women in Math
With the most recent Fields Medal, the major award for math, going to a woman for the first time, more attention than usual has been...