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Last Days of Summer Can Include Stargazing at UT

Last Days of Summer Can Include Stargazing at UT

Nothing makes a romantic night quite like stargazing from atop a UT building.

Shelley Payne Appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Shelley Payne Appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Payne will be responsible for faculty promotion and tenure, recruiting and retention, annual faculty reports and faculty development.

President Obama Honors Computer Scientist

President Obama Honors Computer Scientist

Brent Waters honored at the White House this week with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser Created by Physicists

World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser Created by Physicists

The breakthrough could lead to the development of photonic technologies in computing and medicine that are faster and smaller than current electronics.

Young Mathematician Alessio Figalli Received One of Europe's Highest Honors

Young Mathematician Alessio Figalli Received One of Europe's Highest Honors

Mathematician Alessio Figalli, who recently received one of Europe's highest honors, has been solving difficult mathematical problems at a prodigious clip.

Computer Science Combats Disease

Computer Science Combats Disease

Computer Science professor Chandrajit Bajaj uses software to fight disease.

New Sculpture Unveiled at the Marine Science Institute

New Sculpture Unveiled at the Marine Science Institute

Ten-foot tall 'Interdependency' highlights the complex dependencies and interactions among various animals and plants in marine ecosystems.

Intern Stories: A Summer at Amazon

Intern Stories: A Summer at Amazon

Elynn Lee is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Amazon on the Kindle Reader Framework team. This is her second internship, her first one being at Facebook in Palo Alto, California. She is simultaneously doing research on a SRC-URO fellowship in Computational Epidemiology.

2012 Graduate Wins $175,000 Teaching Fellowship

2012 Graduate Wins $175,000 Teaching Fellowship

The fellowship is designed to meet the needs of beginning teachers from the onset of the credentialing process through the critical early years of their careers.

Intern Stories: Facebooking on the Job

Intern Stories: Facebooking on the Job

Parth Upadhyay is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Facebook on the Real Time Infrastructure team.