Katherine Bruner, Christina Markert and Michael Mauk from UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences have been named recipients of the annual President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Are you ready to get your hands on science? At the Texas Science Festival happening now there are many free opportunities for lifelong learners and school children and youth to try something new, from peering through telescopes to crafting inventions of their own making to handling bones, fossils and replicas of dinosaurs, mastodons and more. The celebration kicked off this week and runs through March 4. In addition to more than a dozen virtual events, this year's festival includes several in-person events with interactive components.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has selected Risto Miikkulainen as one of 11 fellows for 2023.
Researchers at UT Austin are involved in some of the most exciting areas of science and driving groundbreaking discoveries and technologies that impact our world.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today the early-career researchers across the U.S. and Canada who are recipients of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship, including three UT Austin faculty members in the College of Natural Sciences: Greg Durrett, Sam Raskin and Hang Ren.
The IEEE Computer Society has selected Keshav Pingali to receive the 2023 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award for his "contributions to high-performance compilers and graph computing."
Just as humans cannot breathe underwater, the tiny pores of plants can't exchange air underwater.
Felicity Muth, a UT Austin assistant professor of integrative biology whose work focuses on cognition, didn't always know what animal she would ultimately work with to better understand the living world.
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that mimicking human muscles can lead to more efficiently designed electric motors for use in robots and appliances. Their bioinspired motors use up to 22% less energy, have a greater range of motion and can lift objects higher than typical electric motors.
A team of 12 undergraduate students at UT Austin received top awards at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, including placing in the top 10 overall in the undergraduate category—the only team from the U.S. to do so.
Read our publication, The Texas Scientist, a digest covering the people and groundbreaking discoveries that make the College of Natural Sciences one of the most amazing and significant places on Earth.
