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Features

Company Founded by Cancer-Fighting Chemist Sold for $21 Billion

Jonathon Sessler's Pharmacyclics company aided in advancing molecules to target cancer and was recently bought by AbbVie.

Jonathan Sessler, in suit and tie, smiles and stands before white board with notes

Features

Fun with Chemistry Inspires Students of All Ages

The program, which began visiting schools in December of 2014, was created to get children excited about science. The demonstrations are intended to be fun...

A volunteer from the crowd assists Dr. Biberdorf at Explore UT. Photo by Jeff Mertz.

Features

Hooray for Pi Day

Pi plays a central role in the research of scientists and mathematicians at UT Austin.

A pi symbol

Accolades

Two Assistant Professors Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation

The CAREER awards are intended to recognize promising young faculty and support their research with five years of funding.

Işil Dillig and Ilya Finkelstein

Accolades

Computer Scientist Wins Sloan Fellowship and NSF CAREER Award

Işil Dillig works to improve the security and reliability of computer software systems and has been awarded both a Sloan Research Fellowship and an NSF...

Işil Dillig in a conference room setting

Research

Always and Forever: A Microscopic Love Story

What if you swapped symbiotic bacteria between two strains of aphid, would the resulting aphids look or act differently than their mothers?

A green insect holds its hands over its heart, which is made up of red microbes

Features

Graduate Student Sisters Among Growing Trend Toward More Women in Math

With the most recent Fields Medal, the major award for math, going to a woman for the first time, more attention than usual has been...

Milica and Maja Taskovic

Features

Freshman Research Initiative Alum Spotlight: Elvira Marquez

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI), we visit with some of the alumni of the program, like Human Development...

Elvira Marquez

Features

Peter Onyisi is Having a Smashing Time Hunting Particles

After the excitement of discovering the Higgs boson, what comes next for particle physics?

A man stands with arms crossed in front of a chalk board with mathematical equations

Research

When Sperm Meets Egg, Zinc 'Fireworks' on Display

The University of Texas at Austin's Emily Que, an assistant professor of chemistry, was lead author on a new study that describes the cutting-edge technology a research...

As a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, an explosion of zinc sparks erupt.