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Accolades

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.

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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

Ultrathin materials get stacked at a slight angle.

Accolades

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 than the Nobel Prize.

Allan Wolf wears a Wolf Prize medal as UT President Jay Hartzell applauds

Announcements

Meet the New Faculty Members in Natural Sciences

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Accolades

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.

Mark Raizen in glasses in front of physics lab equipment

Accolades

Physicist Receives DOE Funding for Fusion Projects

UT Austin researcher Saeid Houshmandyar has been awarded approximately $900,000 by the DOE for fusion and plasma research over three years. The funding will support...

Saeid Houshmandyar

Features

Lilienfeld Prize Winner Katherine Freese Researches Dark Matter

The winner of the 2019 Lilienfeld Prize, given annually by the American Physical Society for outstanding contributions in physics, develops theories about dark matter and what happened at the start of the universe.

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Research

5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Four Years of Undergrad Research

We asked graduating seniors from across the college to share their best tips for research success.

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