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Current and Past Ph.D. Students Win Awards

08/08/2012 - Two of UTCS's current and past Ph.D. students have won significant awards. Read More

Tower Talk: A Good Summer for UT Science

08/06/2012 - UT President Bill Powers gives praise to Brent Waters of the College of Natural Sciences for receiving a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Mathematician Alessio Figalli also gets a shout-out. Read More

President Obama Honors Computer Scientist

08/01/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas — Computer scientist Brent Waters was honored at the White House this week with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.Read More

Heavy Hitters

08/01/2012 - The Economist speaks with Dr. Peter Stone about how making sporting robots can aid in using them for rescue missions. Read More

Team Creates World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser

08/01/2012 - Forbes reports on research done at UT, with colleagues in China and Taiwan, to create a nano laser device. Read More

Computer Science Combats Disease

07/25/2012 - By David Maly, The Daily Texan, 7/18/2012Read More

Assistant Professor Brent Waters Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

07/23/2012 - Assistant Professor Brent Waters has earned a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in cryptography and computer security from President Barack Obama. Read More

Intern Stories: A Summer at Amazon

07/23/2012 - By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Elynn Lee is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Amazon on the Kindle Reader Framework team. This is her second internship, her first one being at Facebook in Palo Alto, California. She is simultaneously doing research on a SRC-URO fellowship in Computational Epidemiology.Read More

Robot Sport: Heavy Hitters

07/21/2012 - Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides Read More

Intern Stories: Facebooking on the Job

07/19/2012 - By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Parth Upadhyay is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Facebook on the Real Time Infrastructure team. This is his second internship. His first internship was at Bloomberg in New York City, New York.Read More