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Announcements

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...

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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...

From left to right: Olivia Conway, Aniket Sanghi, Kevin Zhou

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,.

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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.

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Features

UT Austin Offers New Undergraduate Major in Statistics and Data Science

Statistics and Data Sciences are among the fastest growing fields in the United States.

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Research

A More Nuanced Approach is Needed to Manage Coral Reef Ecosystems

Instead of focusing entirely on biomass and one-size-fits-all solutions, researchers recommend finding which fish provide the most useful functions in each reef system and protecting...

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Invading Hordes of Crazy Ants May Have Finally Met Their Kryptonite

UT Austin scientists have demonstrated how to use a naturally occurring fungus to crush local populations of invasive tawny crazy ants.

Ants swarm on a larger, dead insect

Research

New Phononic Crystal Might Enable Better Mobile Communications

UT Austin researchers' new acoustic component, made of aluminum nitride and configured into periodic phononic crystals, allows engineers to direct high frequency elastic waves along...

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Department of Computer Science

Computer Science Researcher Aims to Automate Software Development

Isil Dillig works to improve the security and reliability of software systems and automatically generate programs from high-level specifications.

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Accolades

Astronomer Stella Offner Receives Delta Young Astronomer Lectureship Award

Each year, the award is given to one or two international scholars under the age of 45.

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