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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
UT Astronomer Selected for Frontiers of Research Project
Philanthropic support from the Simons Foundation is expanding opportunities for discovery on Earth and beyond.
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.
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.
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.