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Vital Statistics: The Potential of Math to Advance Medicine
Experts say joining the mathematical and computational revolution has the potential to transform healthcare, one of our nation's largest and most critical industries.
![Illustration of a woman in a hospital gown sitting on a table with medical data in the background](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/math_feature_cover2400x1350.jpg)
Visualizing Science 2017: Finding the Hidden Beauty in College Research
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.
![This image shows the turbulent gas structures in a three-dimensional, multi-physics supercomputer simulation during the formation of such massive clusters, with the red-to-violet rainbow spectrum representing gas at high-to-low densities.](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/vissci2017-01-1st_tsang.jpg)
Alumnus Helped Usher in Age of Personal Computing and Guide Lunar Astronauts Home
Bob O'Rear said his time in graduate school on the Forty Acres made a huge mark on his career for introducing him to astrophysics and computer programming.
![A man stands with arms crossed in front of a wall that says "The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences"](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/orear2400x1350.jpg)
Meet Six Incredible Women from UT Austin Science History
From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of the Texas Science community have helped change the world—and our understanding of the universe.
![Illustration of the six women in the article by Jenna Luecke.](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/texaswomeninscience-cover.jpg)
Charles Fraser Mends Little Hearts
Charles Fraiser, former Surgeon-in-Chief at Texas Children's Hopital in Houston, now works at UT Austin's Dell Medical School and talks about his career.
![A young boy looks at a mechanical heart pump, as a doctor in white coat watches](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/fraser-w-patient.png)
Three Members of Natural Sciences Recognized for Teaching Excellence
The honor rewards excellence in teaching by recognizing tenured faculty members who have continuously provided significant contributions to education throughout their career, especially at the undergraduate level.
![Volker Bromm, Philip Uri Treisman and Lorenzo Alvisi](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/3_awarded_teaching_1200x800px.jpeg)
Visualizing Science 2015: Beautiful Images From College Research
As part of a continuing tradition, we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us images this past spring that celebrated the magnificent beauty of science and the scientific process. Our goal was to find those moments where science and art become one and the same.
![A map of DNA fragments sequenced from the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. The dead zone is an area of low oxygen in the Gulf. Each square is a different DNA fragment from the water. The colored groupings—based on similar DNA sequence composition—represent genomes of newly discovered species that are important to the ecosystem.](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/vissci2015-01-1st_baker.jpg)
Hooray for Pi Day
Pi plays a central role in the research of scientists and mathematicians at UT Austin.
![A pi symbol](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/spring-pi2400x1350.png)
Graduate Student Sisters Among Growing Trend Toward More Women in Math
With the most recent Fields Medal, the major award for math, going to a woman for the first time, more attention than usual has been on the under-representation of women in math graduate programs.
![Milica and Maja Taskovic](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/grads_blog.jpg)