College of Natural Sciences

Technology and Transformation

Technology and Transformation UT’s powerful partnership with Microsoft “There is a direct correlation between teacher preparation and student performance. As the flagship university in the state of Texas, it was our duty to respond to this growing need.” – Uri...

Impact – A Family Tradition

Grateful, Students

Impact – A Family Tradition Brian Chavez, BSA ’22 College of Natural Sciences When is a Forty Acres Scholarship more than a Forty Acres Scholarship? When students take their impact worldwide. Brian Chavez, recipient of the Stamps Forty Acres Scholarship supported by...

Solving the Cancer Equation

Changing the World, Faculty, Texas & Beyond

Solving the Cancer Equation Cancer is arguably the greatest health challenge of our time. Nearly 40% of us will be diagnosed with it at some point in our lives. In the last 50 years, clinical advances have substantially reduced the mortality rate for people with...

In the Pines

Winter 2020

Casey Stengl (right) and her partner Lorraine Wyer in the Stengl Lost Pines wildflower meadow. Photos: Courtesy of the College of Natural Sciences On 581 acres near Smithville sits The University of Texas at Austin’s Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station. This heavenly...

The Calculated Life

Fall 2017

In 1980, Microsoft was a scrappy little company with about 40 employees known mostly for producing computer languages like BASIC and FORTRAN. Annual revenues were just a few million dollars a year. That changed when they got a call from global computer giant IBM....