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Accolades

Mathematician Receives Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching

Amanda Hager was recognized for demonstrating "a warm spirit, a concern for society and the individual, and the ability to impart knowledge while challenging students...

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Climate-friendly Microbes Chomp Dead Plants Without Releasing Heat-trapping Methane

Scientists have identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around the world.

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Exoplanet is Gobbling Up Gas and Dust as it Continues to Build Mass

The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers including Brendan Bowler from The University of Texas at Austin to get a rare look at a young...

An artist's image suggests a planet is sucking a stream of orbiting light into its mass

Research

UT Chemistry Researchers Encode Jane Austen Quote in a Polymer

The technique, which relies on short polymers called oligourethanes, encodes information with greater density than DNA-based approaches

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Announcements

Texas Astronomers Lead Major Projects in James Webb Space Telescope’s First Year

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin are set to lead some of the largest programs in the first year of NASA's James Webb...

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Features

Nutrition Researchers Developing Digital Platform for Teachers

A group of University of Texas at Austin nutrition researchers and educators received a grant to encourage kids to make healthy eating choices by providing...

Adults and children work together on building school gardens with TX Sprouts

Department of Computer Science

Aaronson Receives ACM Prize in Computing

The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded Scott Aaronson the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing.

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Announcements

Two Natural Sciences Undergraduates Selected as Goldwater Scholars

Briana Syed and Teddy Hsieh, have earned the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, which honors outstanding students in STEM majors.

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Research

Cosmic Rumbles: New Faculty Probe Universe for Gravitational Waves

A couple who joined the Department of Physics in 2020, Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker, study violent events in the universe, like when cosmic heavyweights...

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Department of Molecular Biosciences

Human Trials Begin for a Low-Cost COVID-19 Vaccine to Extend Global Access

A COVID-19 vaccine in human trials in Vietnam, Thailand and Brazil, holds promise for affordable vaccine manufacturing in countries currently dependent on imported vaccines.

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