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Neuroscience Professor Wins Prize for Promoting Scientific Rigor
Michela Marinelli received a Rigor Champions Prize for fostering scientific transparency through her course Analytical Skepticism.
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Dr. Laura Colgin receives Distinguished Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Colgin's research explores how hippocampal dysfunction contributes to abnormal social behaviors in individuals with autism associated with Fragile X Syndrome.
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Natural Sciences Undergraduates Honored for Excellence with Mitchell Awards
Josíah Garza, Anirudh Sudarshan, Lars Deutz and Nirmal Patel are 2024 UT Co-op George H. Mitchell Award Recipients.
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Celebrating the 2024 College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Honored Graduates
Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community.
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Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Neuroscientist Kristen Harris and molecular bioscientist Keiko Torii have received one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.
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INS Grad Student Brandy Routh Wins "Empower Your Pitch" Award
Brandy Routh wins Empower Your Pitch Overall Excellence in Research Communication Award for "Circadian Rhythms Shape the Growing Brain"
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Bob Messing Receives the Civitatis Award from the UT Office of the President
Recipients are deemed to be a person of such integrity, stature, demonstrated ability and renown that the university community.
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Messing lab publishes in Brain, Behavior and Immunity
This work investigates the role of toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3), a receptor that is involved in inflammatory pathways in the brain.
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Undergraduate Researchers Help Unlock Lessons of Machine Learning and AI
From large language models to brain-machine interfaces, students work with faculty on cutting-edge research.
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Scientists Develop New Theory to Understand Why Our Perception is Biased
Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception.
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