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ALT Grid of headshots featuring 12 UT Austin faculty selected as New Directions in Research awardees. Text reads: “TEXAS Research. New Directions in Research Awardees.”
ALT A man stands with arms folded next to a short wall, looking out at the ocean. Photo credit: Tico Mendoza
ALT A man stands on the deck of a research vessel, working on a robotic submersible that looks like a large yellow box about the size of a small car. Photo credit: Chip Breier.
ALT A man leans against a railing on the deck of a research vessel. Behind him, a crane is lowering a robotic submersible that looks like a large yellow box about the size of a small car into the water. Photo credit: Chip Breier
ALT Science, but make it art.\n\nEvery year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and students to send in the most striking and fascinating images from their research for the college-wide Visualizing Science competition.
ALT Choanoflagellates are the closest relatives of animals, and these microscopic organisms (each cell is only 5 microns!) help illuminate how we first established symbiotic interactions \nwith bacteria.
ALT A one-second exposure of the Air-Breathing Deflagration Thruster operating in vacuum shows a bright, collimated plasma jet. Electric current flows through the plasma and interacts with its own magnetic field, generating Lorentz forces that accelerate the plasma outward and simultaneously pinch it inward.
ALT What starts here changes the world.
ALT Person standing on the UT campus holding a sign that says \"Start of my Longhorn journey\".
ALT Family stands together holding signs celebrating UT Austin Orientation.
ALT Group stands in front of a marquee sign that says \"Class of 2030\" to celebrate UT Austin orientation.
ALT Mom takes a photo of her daughter holding a sign to celebrate UT Austin Orientation.
ALT Friday: For 20 years, the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) has given first-year STEM students hands-on experience in fields ranging from robotics and AI to biology and chemistry.
ALT In 2005, UT faculty and leaders were looking for ways to provide undergraduate students opportunities to conduct research early in their academic careers. Too many students were having to wait until their junior or senior years to start.\n\nTo give UT a stronger position for NSF funding, the dean of the College of Natural Sciences set aside funds to start a pilot program for first-year students. In the Spring of 2006, the new program had 43 students.
ALT Today, UT\u2019s FRI is the country\u2019s largest initiative hosting first-year students in labs with scientists to work on real-world problems. About 1,100 new students join the program each year, and another 700 students continue as peer mentors.
ALT What starts here changes the world.
ALT A man in a large greenhouse stands next to a tank of water with corals.
ALT An illustration showing the types of corals and their density in the Caribbean at three different times: Late Pleistocene to about 1978, 1980s and 2010s.
ALT A large mound of vibrant corals underwater
ALT Alt text: Cartoon of a microbe showing all its internal structures. Caption: Inferred subcellular organization in LECA, the last eukaryotic common ancestor, based on its estimated gene content. Credit: Cell illustration adapted from multiple graphics shared as open source by SwissBioPics.
ALT Three young professionals collaborating in a modern office setting with a laptop, promoting the Global Career Accelerator program.
