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Taft Armandroff Elected to Chair Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

With vice chair Brian Schmidt, the McDonald Observatory director will lead the next phase of construction.

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UT Austin Astronomer Wins Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Award

Caroline Morley has been selected to be part of a three-year initiative to support the Legacy Survey of Space and Time at the Vera C...

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Celebrating the 2024 College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Honored Graduates

Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community.

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NASA Awards Fellowships to Two UT Austin Postdocs

Jed McKinney and Cheng-Han Hsieh will pursue independent research in the formation of galaxies and solar systems.

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UT Astronomy Graduate Student Receives Fellowship to Study Exoplanets

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded Quang Tran, Ph.D. candidate in UT astronomy, one of its eight prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowships.

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Muñoz Named Among Science News’ SN 10 List of Scientists to Watch

The scientist developed a ruler with the power to size up the early university and shed light on the cosmic dawn.

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NSF Awards Graduate Research Fellowships to 23 UT Natural Sciences Students

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

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Astronomer Stella Offner Receives Delta Young Astronomer Lectureship Award

Each year, the award is given to one or two international scholars under the age of 45.

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Astronomer Brendan Bowler Receives 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship

UT Austin assistant professor of astronomy, Brendan Bowler, has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics for his work related to the formation, evolution, architectures and atmospheres of extrasolar planets.

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Caroline Morley Receives Annie Jump Cannon Award

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) selected Morley for outstanding research and promise for future research.