Video: The Giant Magellan Telescope
With its role in the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope, the McDonald Observatory continues to push forward the frontiers of astronomical science.
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Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Fish
Benjamin Walther analyzes the "earstones" of fish to learn where they've been, and where climate change may take them.
Student Profile: Going Global with Damilola Olatayo
Gates Millenium Scholar Damilola Olatayo hopes to use her UT education as a springboard to doing global medicine.
Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing's Centenary
BotPrize winners were scored as more human-like than half their human competitors.
Six Assistant Profs Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation
The awards, which total more than $1.5 million, recognize promising young faculty.
Systems Biologist Receives $2.5 Million Pioneer Award for Genome Research
Marcotte’s project focuses on what he sees as the next step in “next-generation” genome sequencing technology.
Brackenridge Field Lab Resident Manager Retires After 45 Years
John Crutchfield helped establish BFL as one of the premier urban field research stations in the country.
New Physics Professor Talks About Finding the Higgs Boson
New assistant professor Peter Onyisi was part of the team in Switzerland that confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson particle. Physicist Peter Onyisi arrives as a new assistant professor in the College of Natural Sciences with an extraordinary feather already in his cap. He was part of the team at CERN working with the Large Hadron Collider ...Mathematics Faculty Receive $2.5 Million Grant to Advance Education in Geometry and Topology
The award will enhance the training of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers.
$1.5 Millon Grant Brings Renowned French Mathematician to the College of Natural Sciences
Francois Baccelli joins the college this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering.Read It Now
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