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Research

Helping Others Slows Cognitive Decline in People at Higher Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s

Researchers found that even modest time spent helping others was associated with cognitive benefits.

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Statistics and Data Sciences

How Arya Farahi Uses Simulated Universes to Advance Dark Matter Research

SDS professor Arya Farahi uses advanced statistical techniques to compare simulated universes with our own

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Features

Now 50 Years Old, One of the World’s Most Diverse Collections of Organisms Lives On at UT

David Nobles Jr., curator of the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae, looks back and explains why algae matter in research.

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UT News

Moonshot Funding for Dementia

Karen Fingerman, director of the Texas Institute on Dementia, Aging and Longevity, looks ahead to a new era of aging and dementia research.

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McDonald Observatory

McDonald Helps Lead NASA Mission to Study the Dust Between Stars

The PUFFINS satellite uses polarized light to reveal the composition, structure and surroundings of space dust.

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Accolades

Jia Leo Li Selected as a 2026 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

Selected among only 21 scientists nationwide, Li will be exploring quantum phenomena in atomically thin materials.

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Accolades

UT Astronomer Selected for Frontiers of Research Project

Philanthropic support from the Simons Foundation is expanding opportunities for discovery on Earth and beyond.

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Announcements

Meet New Faculty In the College of Natural Sciences

New faculty across the college are bringing research expertise across a wide range of scientific fields.

New Faculty In the College of Natural Sciences

UT News

2 UT Faculty Selected for Inaugural Cohort of Navy Research Fellows

Joydeep Biswas of UT computer science and Texas Robotics was one of the two faculty selected for the honor.

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School of Computing

Getting to Know Peter Stone: Curiosity, AI and the Future of Computing

The question that drives the head of UT Austin’s School of Computing.

Peter Stone has been tapped by Sony Corp. to head up the U.S. branch of its new global artificial intelligence research division, called Sony AI.