News

Accolades

Dr. Kristen Harris receives the University Co-operative Society’s Career Research Excellence Award

October 26, 2022 • by Staff Writer

Accolades

Dr. Micky Marinelli receives CNS Teaching Excellence Award!

October 11, 2022 • by Staff Writer

Accolades

Dr. Rick Aldrich awarded the Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences

September 30, 2022 • by Staff Writer

Announcements

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

August 12, 2022 • by Christine Sinatra

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

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Announcements

Waggoner Center Affiliate Faculty renew INIA Neuroimmune consortium grant

June 20, 2022 • by Staff Writer

UT News

How Electric Fish Were Able to Evolve Electric Organs

June 1, 2022 • by Marc Airhart

How small genetic changes enabled electric fish to evolve electric organs.

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Research

Assistant Professor Lief Fenno is Developing New Tools to Treat Addiction

May 31, 2022 • by Sophia Kurz

Neuroscientist Lief Fenno of UT Austin partakes in research which advances the understanding of addiction and how it can be treated.

Accolades

Dr. Michael Drew is president-elect of Pavlovian Society

December 2, 2021 • by Staff Writer

UT News

As We Develop, the Brain Connects Lessons Learned Differently

November 15, 2021 • by Marc Airhart

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age.

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Accolades

Natural Sciences Researchers Win President’s Award for Global Learning

August 30, 2021 • by Amanda Figueroa-Nieves

A team with two CNS undergraduates of UT Austin were involved with research about the relationship between undergraduates' mental health and their social support networks during the COVID-19 pandemic.