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UT Austin Hires Director for Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Lee Clippard has been selected to serve as executive director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the official botanic garden and arboretum of Texas.
![Lee Clippard in a collared sheet stands in an aboretum](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/lee-clippard-2022.jpeg)
Some Trees May Play an Outsized Role in the Fight on Global Warming
A new study shows that nitrogen-fixing trees could help forests remove more heat-trapping COS from the atmosphere than previously thought.
![Sunlight peeks through the trees](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/black-locust-trees-and-sun-2400x1600_0.jpg)
Department of Molecular Biosciences
A New Way to Disarm Antibiotic Resistance in Deadly Bacteria
Scientists have found a new way to impair antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause human disease, including E. coli, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa.
![Microsope image of a bacterium that has burst open](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/k-pneumoniae-destroyed1400.jpg)
Remembering Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg was best known for his Nobel-prize winning work that unified two fundamental forces of nature — electromagnetism and the weak force.
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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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Texas Scientist
Charging Ahead
Chemists and physicists are making steady progress on developing new materials that may prove key for our future energy needs.
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Unraveling How One of the Most Important Cell Types Form
Stomata are critical to plant biology and scientists have found a key to how they get there.
![Microscopic images of plant stomata](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/stomata1.jpeg)
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Weight Gain in Pregnancy May Be Linked to Later Growth Patterns in Daughters
Patterns of weight gain in pregnancy may offer clues to how children will grow.
![Photo of a pregnant woman seated as she looks at an ultrasound photo](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/nutritional-science-pregnancy-1400px1-1-1200x800-c-default.jpeg)