News: Features
The Biodiversity Center
Announcing the 2024 Stengl-Wyer Scholars, Fellows and Grant Awardees
UT postdocs, graduate students and faculty receive prestigious awards linked to sustainability and biodiversity.
![Six young scientists are shown in separate photos, and some are working in scientific spaces](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/swe-3-2-header.jpg)
The Koltz Lab’s Work With Dung Beetles
They sound funny, but they provide important ecological services in the Lone Star State.
![A dung beetle with a ball of dung](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/dung-beetle.png)
Oden Institute
Summer School on Quantum Materials
Feliciano Guistino led a week-long workshop for graduate-level students in modern techniques for computational data science and high-performance computing.
![Students in a lecture hall discussing a problem and looking at laptop screens](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/tutorial_1.jpg)
What Will Extreme Weather Events Mean for Texas’s Favorite Bugs?
The answer matters for people, too, given how insects affect whole ecosystems.
![A photo of a monarch butterfly on a yellow flower](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/3-2-monarch-butterfly.jpg)
Texas Field Station Network Catalyzes Collaborations Across Field Sites
The recently announced largest-ever gift to the college is helping to bring new research synergies.
![Natural landscape with orange brown grasses in the foreground, trees in the middle distance and a mountai top with telescope domes in the distance](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/ts_mcdonald_observatory-20_1200x800.jpg)