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Integrative Biology

Cool Class: Field Ecology

In some classes, students are assigned readings from a big textbook; others are assigned computer problems or chemistry formulas. But there’s probably only one course at the university in which students are assigned an entire acre of land filled with trees, wildflowers, buzzing insects and birds: Dr. Larry Gilbert’s field ecology class at the Brack...BFL3
College & Campus

New Math Placement Exam for Incoming First-Years

There’s a new rite of passage for students who are accepted into the College of Natural Sciences. It involves a piece of artificial intelligence software called ALEKS (for Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces).
Computer Science

In Computers We Trust?

The growing need for cybersecurity leads scientists in the Department of Computer Science to develop systems that better protect us online.
Chemistry

Discovery of Enzyme Structure Points Way To Creating Less Toxic Anti-HIV Drugs

By discovering the atomic structure of a key human enzyme, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have pointed the way toward designing anti-HIV drugs with far less toxic side effects.

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Systems & Synthetic Biology health & medicine
In the News

Coastal birds decline as development rises...

Marine scientists find several bird species in decline along the Texas Gulf Coast. Read the story here.
Chemistry

Q&A with Chemist Lauren Webb

Lauren Webb, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, arrived at The University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2008.
College & Campus

Dr. Fred Chang Takes Over as Associate Dean of Information Technology

“At the most basic level,” says Fred Chang, associate dean for information technology, “parents and students ought to know how the IT fees they pay are being used.”
College & Campus

Exploring the Cosmos in West Texas

The college’s McDonald Observatory is one of the world's leading centers for astronomical research, teaching, public education and outreach. The observatory sits atop Mount Locke and Mount Fowlkes in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, which offer some of the darkest night skies in the continental United States. The observatory’s showcase Hobby-Ebe...Mcdonald Observatory
In the News

UT student spends summer job chasing tiny wasps

Jay Falk inspects a tall reed resembling bamboo that grows abundantly along the banks of dry Shoal Creek and smiles when he sees tiny holes in one of the side shoots. It was here, he's sure: a nonstinging wasp close to his heart. In its larval stage, it lived inside the shoot and ate. Once it became an adult female, it bore a hole and exited, o...
In the News

UTeach Cited by Obama

UTeach is help up by President of Obama as an example of how to improve science and math education in America.