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A mathematics undergraduate took first place alongside other winners of the college’s 2025 contest.

From large language models to brain-machine interfaces, students work with faculty on cutting-edge research.

The University of Texas at Austin is mourning the death of the late vice president for student affairs and legendary mathematics professor emeritus.

The lifelong farmer and award-winning math teacher discusses how math changed him and how it can change the world.

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star and a black hole and the connection between two wildly different areas of mathematics.

Zoe de Beurs wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she first arrived at UT Austin, but after graduating, she started a Ph.D. in Planetary Science at MIT.

During her graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Lisa Piccirillo solved a problem that had bedeviled mathematicians for five decades.

Here are a handful of ways that members of our science and mathematics community brandished their entrepreneurial spirit this year.

Gold medalists in an astrophysics Olympic-style event, award-winners at a statewide science fair and budding genetic engineers who shared their research 2,000 miles away are among the high schoolers who found success after working closely with members of the Texas Science community in 2018.

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within scholarly research.