News: Honors
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Sessler Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Jonathan Sessler of UT Austin joins 22 others on the College of Natural Sciences faculty who have been elected to the American Academy.

Astronomer Brendan Bowler Receives 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
UT Austin assistant professor of astronomy, Brendan Bowler, has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics for his work related...

Markert Recognized as a 2021 American Physical Society Fellow
Physicist named a 2021 APS Fellow for her research on a quark-gluon plasma that existed less than a second after the Big Bang.

Molecular Biosciences Professor Honored for Outstanding Teaching
Janice Fischer is honored for her outstanding teaching as a professor of molecular biosciences and director of the Biology Instructional Office at UT Austin.

Three Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
UT Austin assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Chemistry have been selected for NSF CAREER awards.

Research on Language Learning Yields Mitchell Prize for UT Austin Statisticians
Giorgio Paulon and Abhra Sarkar researched how nonnative English speakers learned another language's tonal differences.

Biologist Awarded Radcliffe and Guggenheim Fellowships
Steven Phelps will research how and why animals form attachments as part of a book project focused on the biology of intimacy.

Integrative Biology Professor Wins Early Career Award for Contributions to Ecology
Caroline Farrior has been awarded for her research on forest ecosystem dynamics through mathematical modeling.

Four Natural Sciences Faculty Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
Carlos Baiz, Caroline Morley, Andrew Potter and Urbain Weyemi are among the 128 scholars from across the country selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to receive the 2021 Sloan...

Physicist Mark Raizen Named Fellow of AAAS
Mark Raizen, a professor in the Department of Physics, has been named a 2019 AAAS Fellow for his pioneering research.
