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Faculty Members Awarded ‘New Directions’ Seed Funding To Explore Emerging Research Opportunities
College of Natural Sciences researchers embarking on bold new research directions are receiving new seed funding.
McDonald Observatory
HETDEX Opens Massive Cosmic Dataset to Scientists, Novices, and AI
The largest survey ever of the early universe contains 600 million spectra, covering part of the sky equal to 2,000 full Moons.
Can This Scientist’s Proposal Save Coral Reefs in Our Hemisphere?
Evolutionary expert Misha Matz makes a splash with a controversial proposal that could save Caribbean coral reefs.
Scientists Map Proteins From Ancient Organism and Discover New Links to Rare Diseases
New ‘treasure map’ of ancient life holds clues to modern human diseases.
McDonald Observatory
Black Hole Found that Formed Before Its Galaxy
Findings help explain how black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun formed so soon after the Big Bang.
UT Scientists Help Measure Universe’s Expansion with Gravitational Waves
An era of precision gravitational astronomy has arrived, and UT physicists are helping lead the way.
Department of Mathematics
UT Austin Student Team Wins 2026 Spencer-RIMS Risk Management Challenge
UT students won top honors at an actuarial math global competition beating more than 50 other teams.
Oden Institute
A Match Made in the Cosmos
Thanks to the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI), astronomy and AI are solving each other’s problems.
Scientists Find Blood-based Biomarkers for Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is highly aggressive, but extremely difficult to tell apart from other breast cancers.
Award Winners Underscore Outstanding Student Research at Capstone Event
174 students presented their informatics projects spanning areas such as accessibility, AI/ML, archives, data science and UX design.