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Department of Computer Science
On the Road to RoboCup 2026 with UT Austin Villa
The award-winning robot soccer team from Texas Robotics is heading to South Korea to compete in RoboCup 2026.
University of Texas at Austin Named Among Best Global Universities
U.S. News & World Report placed UT in the top 10 in the U.S. and top-tier worldwide in a variety of science subjects.
Limited Connections: How Stress Affects Our Brain
A study by Alison Preston and colleagues focused on how old and new memories are integrated in the hippocampus.
Kurtis Carsch Named a Beckman Young Investigator
The Beckman Foundation selected the UT Austin chemist among 12 award-winning early-career faculty nationwide.
Allan MacDonald Wins Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
MacDonald and two colleagues were honored for “foundational work that established the field of twistronics.”
UT News
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.
