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Accolades

Matteo Ippoliti Wins McMillan Award

Matteo Ippoliti won the 2023 William L. McMillan Award for his contributions to quantum matter and quantum information, including work on quantum Hall systems, time...

Matteo Ippoliti

Announcements

Graduate Student Selected for DOE Research Program at Sandia National Lab

Adam Christensen will work to refine performance limitations in computing systems.

Adam Christensen

Research

Scientists Demote a Potential Wonder Quantum Material

An international research team, including UT Austin's Edoardo Baldini, has disproven that Ta2NiSe5 is an excitonic insulator, resolving a long-standing debate on its phase transition...

Baldini Lab

Announcements

Two UT Austin Students Selected for Goldwater Scholarships

Both Kevin Wen and Maanas Gupta received mentoring and support from College of Natural Sciences faculty.

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Accolades

NSF Awards Graduate Research Fellowships to 23 UT Natural Sciences Students

Dozens of graduate and undergraduate students of UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences were honored this year by the National Science Foundation.

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Research

New Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons called Polarons

Feliciano Giustino leads effort to turn computational predictions into new materials.

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Accolades

Three CNS Faculty Awarded President’s Associates Teaching Awards

Three CNS recipients are being recognized for their engagement with curriculum reform and educational innovation.

Markert, Mauk and Bruner

Announcements

Remembering High-Energy Physicist Roy Schwitters

Roy Schwitters, a world-renowned experimental high-energy physicist and emeritus professor, passed away earlier this month.

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Research

Inspired by Biology, Physicists Make More Efficient Motors

Learn about how UT Austin physicists are using human muscles to design more efficiently designed robots.

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Oden Institute News

James Chelikowsky Wins Feynman Prize

Chelikowsky, Director of the Center for Computational Materials at the Oden Institute, received the 2022 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory.

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