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Doran Bennett Joins Department

Research

Devleena Samanta Invents Ways to Detect Molecules in Living Cells

Learn more about Devleena Samanta's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Chemistry in fall 2021 and what her research focuses on.

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The Texas Scientist

Charging Ahead: The Path to a Clean Energy Future

Clean energy research from UT Austin scientists holds disruptive potential. It comes just as new technologies are needed most.

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Research

When Good RNA Turns Bad

Biophysicist Dave Thirumalai and his team developed a computer model that helps explain how certain kinds of RNA molecules can clump together in a way that is correlated with neurological disorders

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Accolades

Xiuling Li Receives 2022 Pioneer Award

Accolades

Sessler Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Jonathan Sessler of UT Austin joins 22 others on the College of Natural Sciences faculty who have been elected to the American Academy.

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