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Faculty Members Named to Professorships and Endowed Chairs
Several College of Natural Sciences faculty members have been newly appointed to special professorships and endowed chairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Three UT Austin Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Astrophysicist Katherine Freese, astronomer John Kormendy and evolutionary biologist Mark Kirkpatrick of The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Science Amid the Social Distance
A compilation from our previous episodes that we hope will help you find some solace right now: in rediscovering life, the people we're closest with and the universe.
Stacked Layers of Atom-thin Material Reveal Complex Physical Phenomena
A team led by Cornell University, including UT Austin's Allan MacDonald, has successfully demonstrated a two-dimensional Hubbard model simulator using stacked semiconductor layers. Their research...
Four Natural Sciences Faculty Receive President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards
Michael Drew, Janice Fischer, Marci Gleason and Vernita Gordon received President's Associate Teaching Excellence Awards.
The Texas Scientist
One Photon at a Time
Xiaoqin Elaine Li explores how to control light emission from ultrathin materials stacked at slight angles, a single photon at a time
Allan MacDonald Wins Wolf Prize in Physics
UT Austin's Allan MacDonald has received the 2020 Wolf Prize which is generally considered the most prestigious award in physics other han the Nobel Prize.
Physicist Mark Raizen Named Fellow of AAAS
Mark Raizen, a professor in the Department of Physics, has been named a 2019 AAAS Fellow for his pioneering research.
