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Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Computer Science

Professor Lili Qiu Named ACM Fellow

Lili Qiu, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science, was recently named an Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) fellow.

Lili Qiu in a sunlit area indoors

Jackson School of Geosciences

Jackson School Turning Hill Country Ranch into Field Site of the Future

The White Family Outdoor Learning Center at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a planned, growing network of field sites used by...

A live oak tree and windmill are prominent in a bucolic Texas scene as gentle clouds cross the sky.

UT News

Newly Identified Gravitational Waves Help Pinpoint Black Hole

The scientists looking for gravitational waves reported that last year they observed four additional ripples in space-time. During about a nine-month period, scientists including UT...

Artists rendition of two black holes about to collide in space

UT News

Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills, Too

They were found living in the extremely hot, deep-sea sediments located in the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California

View of the ocean floor through a round portal

Accolades

Natural Sciences Alumna Receives Distinguished Texas Exes Award

“When we think of this 2018 Distinguished Alumna, we think ‘trailblazer.’ She has spent her career focusing on delivering health care to the underserved, especially...

Anitha Mitchell Logan

UT News

Undeterred, Gulf Fish Spawn Despite Hurricane

Satellite image of hurricane harvey over Texas

Features

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, including the Occasional Spider Web

If creepy-crawly, eight-legged types are the stuff of your Halloween fears, you might want to stop reading here.

Accolades

Dave Thirumalai Awarded Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics

Davarajan Thirumalai, a professor of chemistry, received the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics.

Dave Thirumalai in a collared shirt smiling

Features

Visualizing Science 2018: Beauty and Inspiration in College Research

Winners of the 2018 Visualizing Science contest include images of nanomaterials, the connection between chaos and electronics and a glimpse into the aural lives of...

A pseudocolored transmission electron micrograph of nanodroplets filled with paramagnetic metals and perfluorocarbon materials.