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Announcements

Gift From Love, Tito’s Helps Build Instrument To Track Ultrafast Electrons in Nanomaterials

The new instrument could lead to better materials for quantum computers and solar cells.

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Research

UT Astronomers Find JWST Data Conflicts with Reionization Models

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope spawned a new tension around when a major change in the universe happened.

An abstract pattern of blue, purple and black areas represents the output of a computer simulation of galaxies ionizing hydrogen gas during the epoch of Reionization

Podcast

Live with Kara Swisher

The award-winning author of “Burn Book” shares her perspectives on artificial intelligence, social media, big tech and government regulation.

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UT News

UT Astronomers Race To Capture Image of Exoplanet Near Star

Brendan Bowler was part of a team to help find the lowest-mass/closest-to-its-host-star distant planet ever found.

An astronomical digitialized sky survey shows stellar patches with various levels of brightness. In a pull-out nearby, a circle is labeled JWST, with a brightest section labeled AF Lep b near a host star. Comparison lines nearby indicate how the Jupiter-Sun Distance and Earth-Sun distance compare.

Features

Turbocharging Protein Engineering with AI

Biotech advances from UT’s new Deep Proteins group are changing the game with help from artificial intelligence.

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Features

How One Staff Member Has Affected the Lives of Students, Faculty and Campus Cats

Michele Keeler, an IT Professional in the College of Natural Sciences, recently marked 50 years working for UT.

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Department of Computer Science

Senior Turing Scholar Publishes Second Computer Science Research Paper

Alan Baade developed a new AI architecture that converts a phrase from one person's voice to another, just by listening.

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Jackson School of Geosciences

The ‘Lost’ Prehistoric Cats of Natural Bridge Caverns

Melissa Kemp is part of a team studying recently recovered cat fossils from a Texas cave that are about 11,500 years old.

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Announcements

Texas Science & Natural History Museum Celebrates Record Attendance in its First Year Since Reopening

The on-campus museum also has opened its newest temporary exhibit, featuring a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the largest optical telescope in North America.

A dark room has museum-quality installations on its wall that read, "Big Eye on Dark Skies: Hobby-Eberly Telescope" near a 3D spherical telescope replica.

Announcements

New Program to Enhance Accessibility in Astronomy Education

Universo Expansivo, a program of the Giant Magellan Telescope, will increase accessibility for students with vision loss through tactile astronomy kits and lesson plans.

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