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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.
Meet Graduate of Distinction and Biology Researcher Halimot Badmus
One of more than 180 graduates of distinction, she has researched all four years and seeks clues for new antibiotics.
McDonald Observatory
IGRINS Confirms Long-Suspected Link Between the Composition of Exoplanets and Their Host Stars
A UT Austin spectrograph measures for the first time the magnesium-to-silicon ratio of an "ultra-hot Jupiter."
NSF Awards Graduate Research Fellowships to 30 from Natural Sciences
Dozens of UT students have received prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
Nobel Laureate and Immunotherapy Pioneer to Speak at Graduation
Ceremony goers will meet one of the world’s most renowned scientists, UT alum Jim Allison (B.A. ’69, Ph.D. ’73).