News: Honors

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

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Seven Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Learn about faculty members from UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences who have been awarded CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation.

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Undergraduate Research Played Role in Paper Tied to Early Career Award

UT Austin alumni involved in Freshman Research Initiative Labs during their time at UT later contributed to a paper that the Journal of Coordination Chemistry singled out...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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