NaturalSciences @ UT

The @NSF has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships & honorable mentions to 43 Texas Science undergrads, grad students & recent alumni this spring. Kudos to all of these exceptional students! #TexasScience #GraduateEducation #STEMEducation cns.utexas.edu/news/accolades…

May 3, 1932: Looking east from the top floor of @UTAustin's Biological Labs, a crew is working on the basement of the future Physics Building - today's Painter Hall. That's 24th Street on the left, Welch Hall in front, and Texas Memorial Stadium in the distance at upper right.

Congrats to UT mathematician Nataša Pavlović, who is 1 of 3 @UTAustin professors being inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year! news.utexas.edu/2026/04/22/3-u…

Kudos to Scott Aaronson, professor of @UTCompSci at @UTAustin & renowned quantum computing expert, who was elected this week to @theNASciences! cns.utexas.edu/news/accolades…

Meet the Dean’s Honored Graduates of 2026!⁠ #CNSGrad26 #UTGrad26 #UT26 #TexasScience #UTAustin #STEMExcellence @UTAustin @UTexasNutrition @UTaustinFashion @ut_mbs @texas_IB @UTChemistry @UTAstronomy cns.utexas.edu/news/accolades…

UT's 40 for Forty kicks off tomorrow, Wed April 29, at 6 AM! 🤘 #UT4040 is @UTAustin's annual university-wide fundraising event. Consider helping UT’s @mcdonaldobs raise $10k for @stardate Radio & Magazine during this Texas-sized annual giving day! ow.ly/NwhC50YRj1t

🤘@UTAustin's 40 Hours for the Forty Acres is here! 🎙️Did You Know @stardate is the longest running national radio science feature in the United States?! 📻 Help keep @stardate on-air & in print during #UT4040! 🌟 @mcdonaldobs sticker when you give $5+ !  ow.ly/ZkMN50YRlhB

Congratulations to our two Texas Science students, Ashley Park and Maryam Paykar, on earning the inaugural Dr. James W. Vick Endowed Scholarship for Student Leaders!

Mingle with cool scientists AND the amazing @miroquartet in a FREE concert 5th floor atrium of Norman Hackerman Bldg @TexasScience @UTAustin. Closing out the semester in style! #musicscience #WhatStartsHere #HookEm neuroscience.utexas.edu/events/series/…

Good Systems founding member Peter Stone spoke with Live NOW on FOX about Anthropic’s “Claude Mythos” model, cybersecurity concerns and why safeguards matter as AI systems grow more capable. 🎥 Watch here: tinyurl.com/5dz2d3bt #EthicalAI #TexasResearch #TexasAI

So proud of our UNDERGRAD trainees presenting @TexasScience @UTAustin undergraduate research forum TODAY. They are the future-- if you have a lab, recruit an undergrad.

What happens when light is used to control quantum materials? Edoardo Baldini’s research focuses on materials where electrical and magnetic properties are linked through an unusually strong and dynamic interaction. Published in Nature, the discovery could point to future technologies that process information faster and use less energy. Baldini received the 2026 Research Paper Excellence Award. 🎥 Watch more: tinyurl.com/3cvexxd2 #TexasResearch #WhatStartsHere #ItStartsWithResearch

Congrats to Natural Sciences students Angelica Sharma and Harshpreet Kaur!

Iceland was the only Arctic country w/o mosquitoes. Now, thanks to human activities, they’ve made the leap. In a new editorial in @ScienceMagazine, @UTAustin biologist Amanda Koltz warns of more changes to come and calls for more Arctic research. doi.org/10.1126/scienc… @texas_IB

Tower Tuesday: Beyond the libraries, offices and administrators, the Tower holds the second-largest herbarium in the state of Texas. 🪴 The @TexasScience Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center occupies 10 floors and has over one million plant specimens, including a sample collected by Charles Darwin: utex.as/41ywXsB

Check out our latest issue of the Texas Scientist magazine! Read it now at texasscientist.cns.utexas.edu — or pick up a print copy on your next visit to the Texas Science & Natural History Museum. #WhatStartsHere #DiscoveryStartsHere⁠ #TexasScience #TheTexasScientist

A lead gift from Austin philanthropists Sarah and Ernest Butler will advance the conservation and exhibition of one of Texas’ most celebrated fossil discoveries: the 113-million-year-old dinosaur trackways discovered near Glen Rose, Texas. @statesman bit.ly/4t7lr3F

Julian Munoz, a @UTAustin astronomer, may have solved a cosmic mystery about why the earliest galaxies seen by #JWST are much brighter than models predicted. Read the paper: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/… @UTAstronomy @McDonaldObs @NASA @NASAWebb

Energy Week: Researchers at UT have taken a step toward abundant, low-cost, clean energy by developing a new way to contain high-energy particles in reactors, helping make fusion energy possible: utex.as/4bYGf7n

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Celebration of Research! 👏 Five UT Austin researchers were honored for work that is changing lives and the way we understand the world. Janine Barchas and Tom Yankeelov received the President’s Research Impact Award. Brian Korgel (Career Award), Oscar Cásares (Creative Endeavor Award) and Edoardo Baldini (Research Paper Award) were recognized with University Research Excellence Awards. 📖 Read more about the event: utex.as/4dB0GIK #TexasResearch #WhatStartsHere #ItStartsWithResearch