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Accolades

Kimberly Boddy Named a Sloan Research Fellow

The two-year fellowships are awarded annually to early-career researchers seen as emerging leaders in their fields.

Physics Assistant Professor Kimberly Boddy Awarded Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship

Accolades

Two UT Austin Faculty Members Selected as 2026 Cottrell Scholars

William Gilpin in physics and Devleena Samanta in chemistry each were selected for the honor.

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Texas Science Festival Invites Community to Partake in the Joys of Discovery

From a talk-show themed night with science comedy to a campus-wide day for hands-on STEM exploration, the 2026 Texas Science Festival offers something for everyone.

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Ken McMillan Among Longhorns Newly Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

UT computer scientist Ken McMillan has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.

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Features

Microplastics in the Sand: Beach Combing Goes High Tech

A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.

A toaster-sized robot sits on a table with and mechanical arm hovering over a dish of sand. A bluish light points onto a spot on the sand for analysis.

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UT Startup To Recover Rare Earth Minerals From Industrial and e-Waste

The startup, based on work from UT chemists, puts a reusable, 3D-printed filtration platform to work.

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Research

New 3D Printing Method Makes Affordable, Realistic Replicas as Structurally Complex as a Human Hand

The CRAFT method uses widely available materials and inexpensive commercial 3D printers.

Four panels show a 3D printed model of a human hand. One panel shows a grayscale image used for the printing, two show the printed hand and the final panel shows cross sections of the wrist, highlighting hard and soft regions.

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UT Center on Aging and Population Sciences Awarded 6-Year Grant Renewal to Accelerate Research, Expand Trainings

The University of Texas at Austin center is 1 of only 15 such centers on aging in the U.S.

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Research

Superfluids are Supposed to Flow Indefinitely. Physicists Just Watched One Stop Moving.

Researchers may have glimpsed a supersolid, an enigmatic quantum version of a classical solid.

An artist's illustration shows two thin layers of material stacked one on top of the other, each with an array of atoms represented by dots. The top layer's dots are blue, the bottom layer's dots are read.

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Study Reveals Hidden Topological Structure in Polarons

UT physicists found an unexpected layer of structure in one of solid-state physics’ most common quasiparticles.

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