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Biology Honors Senior Looks Forward to Practicing Compassionate Health Care in the Rio Grande Valley
Biology honors senior Brian Chavez is one of a select few in the graduating Class of 2022 that The University of Texas at Austin has...

The Texas Scientist
Charging Ahead: The Path to a Clean Energy Future
Clean energy research from UT Austin scientists holds disruptive potential. It comes just as new technologies are needed most.

When Good RNA Turns Bad
Biophysicist Dave Thirumalai and his team developed a computer model that helps explain how certain kinds of RNA molecules can clump together in a way...

Sessler Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Jonathan Sessler of UT Austin joins 22 others on the College of Natural Sciences faculty who have been elected to the American Academy.

Supernova Reveals Secrets to Texas-led Team of Astronomers
The discovery improves understanding of the process of how massive stars live and die.

Department of Molecular Biosciences
Live Cell Imaging Reveals New Clues About Processes Linked to Birth Defects
Live cell imaging reveals how a developing embryo transforms from its early ball shape into a more elongated shape with a distinct head and rear.

UT Austin Launches Resource to Connect STEM-Interested Youth, Teachers to Programming
With more young people interested in pursuing future careers related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics, STEM Starts allows users to access information from groups...

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Three Undergraduate Students Named 2022 Goldwater Scholars
Three undergraduate students from the College of Natural Sciences, Olivia Conway, Aniket Sanghi and Kevin Zhou, have been awarded the prestigious national 2022 Barry Goldwater...

UT News
World’s Largest International Dark Sky Reserve Created by McDonald Observatory, Community Partners
The world’s largest International Dark Sky Reserve is coming to Texas and Mexico,.

Department of Statistics and Data Sciences
Layla Parast Aims to Improve Healthcare Using Biostatistics
Meet new statistics and data science professor, Layla Parast, whose work in biostatistics aims to improve medical treatments and trial outcomes.
