Podcast

The Next 50 Years: A Model of Life on the Atomic Scale

Can we simulate life — in all its messy complexity and at the scale of each individual atom — in a computer?

Illustration of a biological cell

Research

Cancer Drug with Better Staying Power and Reduced Toxicity Shows Preclinical Promise

The texaphyrin molecule is designed to be more easily absorbed by cancerous cells than healthy human cells, reducing the drug’s side effects.

The drug candidate, called OxaliTEX, is made of two parts.

The Texas Scientist

20/20 Foresight

So what will the next 50 years bring? Absent a crystal ball, your best bet would be to ask a scientist.

Illustration by David Steadman.

Features

12 Ways Texas Science Innovators Made the Most of this Year

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

3 Students wearing t-shirts celebrating 1,000+ patents jump for joy in front of the UT Austin tower

UT News

Researchers Discover New Way to Split and Sum Photons with Silicon

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Image shows a green laser passing through a glass vial of a chemical solution

UT News

Texas Organization Donates Millions to UT Austin Cancer-Fighting Research

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Artist drawing of cancer cells

Research

Kami Hull Seeks to Make Drugs Faster with Less Waste

Learn about Kami Hull's work as an organic chemist and how she won a prestigious Novartis Early Career Award in Chemistry.

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Accolades

College Undergraduate Dean Wins National Award for Inclusive Leadership

Vanden Bout received the 2019 Inclusive Leader Award from GlobalMindED, a national nonprofit organization that aims to improve education and employment opportunities for students who are in the first generation in their family to attend college.

David Vanden Bout in tie in office in front of chemistry displays

Research

5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Four Years of Undergrad Research

We asked graduating seniors from across the college to share their best tips for research success.

Three students in blue lab coats and goggles gather around a computer screen

Podcast

A Love Letter from Texas Scientists to the Periodic Table

We're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Join us as we tour the cosmos, from the microscopic to the telescopic, with four scientists studying the role of four elements—zinc, oxygen, palladium and gold—in life, the universe and everything.

A series of cupcakes arranged to look like the periodic table