News: Accolades

As a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, the professor of integrative biology is leading cutting-edge exploration alongside collaborators in Brazil.

Vagheesh Narasimhan had an extraordinary achievement in original research, providing clues to human evolution.

The Biodiversity Center director penned “Armadillos to Ziziphus,” a celebration of life in the Texas Hill Country.

The awards from the National Science Foundation support innovative work by earlier-career faculty.

Arbel Harpak, recently named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, researches how genetic makeup can have dramatically different impacts on health and evolution in males and females.

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

Scott Aaronson, Catherine Calder and Claus Wilke are now fellows of the world’s largest general scientific society.

Nancy Moran receives the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences.

Steven Phelps will research how and why animals form attachments as part of a book project focused on the biology of intimacy.

Caroline Farrior has been awarded for her research on forest ecosystem dynamics through mathematical modeling.