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Accolades

Vernita Gordon Receives 2025 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award

The ROTA recognize extraordinary classroom presence and innovative teaching methods.

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Three College of Natural Sciences Faculty Win NSF CAREER Awards

The award, recognizing early-career faculty, will support research in computer science and physics.

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Edoardo Baldini Awarded Ludwig-Genzel-Prize 2025

The UT Austin physicist won for “exceptional contributions to the field of condensed-matter spectroscopy.”

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Guggenheim Foundation Names 3 at UT in 100th Class of Fellows

Swarat Chaudhuri, a computer scientist, and Feliciano Giustino, a physicist, are among this year’s fellows.

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2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to ATLAS collaboration

The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for its pioneering studies of the high-energy collisions from the Large...

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Six UT Faculty Members Awarded Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships

The annual award recognizes early-career scientists whose work demonstrates exceptional promise.

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Chelikowsky Receives 2025 Hill Prize in Physical Sciences

Three UT Austin scientists and engineers received high-risk high-reward awards this year from TAMEST.

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Allan MacDonald Named Citation Laureate

The annual recognition highlights researchers with extraordinary citation records and societal impact.

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Physicists Earn Recognition for Innovative Research

Early career researchers from the Department of Physics were selected for highly competitive Department of Defense awards.

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Celebrating the 2024 College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Honored Graduates

Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community.