Accolades

Moran to Receive Waksman Award in Microbiology from NAS

Nancy Moran receives the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences.

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Accolades

Students Win Big at International Synthetic Biology Competition

Undergraduate students at UT Austin are recognized for their work which could save bats from a condition that is often deadly and dangerous.

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Accolades

Dr. Maria Croyle Receives Best Paper Award from the University Co-op Research Excellence Awards

Dr. Maria Croyle, LCID Faculty Member and Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Glaxo Wellcome Professor in the College of Pharmacy, recently received the Best Research...

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UT News

Texas Biologics to Bolster Research in Therapeutics

A new University of Texas at Austin initiative will focus primarily on biologic research and development.

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Announcements

UT Austin Leads in New Summary of Top “Degrees of the Future”

A new report releases what the nation’s best degrees of the future are.

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Features

Three Generations of Retrovirologists

LCID Assistant Director Dr. Jaquelin Dudley and her mentee, Dr. Wendy Kaichun Xu, along with Dr. Dudley's mentor, Dr. Harold Varmus of Weil Cornell Medicine...

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Podcast

Frog Pandemic

Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.

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Accolades

McLellan Honored for Contributions to COVID-19 Vaccines

Jason McLellan, UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, has received the 2021 Shirley Bird Perry Longhorn Citizenship Award

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Podcast

Do Sick Animals Socially Distance?

According to a new review in the journal Science, when highly social animals — such as ants, mice and bats — get sick, their social interactions change, too.

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