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Amazon Awards 15 UT Graduate Students AI Ph.D. Fellowships

UT Austin had 15 Ph.D. candidates selected as fellows campus-wide, with most studying computer science.

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Faculty Member Wins University-Wide Research Excellence Award

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

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College of Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards

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

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Three in Texas Science Elected Fellows of AAAS

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

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Research on Language Learning Yields Mitchell Prize for UT Austin Statisticians

Giorgio Paulon and Abhra Sarkar researched how nonnative English speakers learned another language's tonal differences.

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Two CNS Faculty Receive President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards

Laura Lashinger and Sally Ragsdale received awards recognizing the university’s educational innovators who demonstrate exceptional undergraduate teaching in the core curriculum.

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Two in CNS Receive President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award

Each year, these awards recognize great teaching of undergraduates in the core curriculum.