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Honoring excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level, UT Austin announced the 2019 inductees into its prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Maryam Hussaini and Maike Morrison, undergraduate students from the College of Natural Sciences, have each been awarded a 2019 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious national scholarship given to students pursuing careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering fields.

Sofia Helpert, a UT Austin senior who is double majoring in physics and chemical engineering, has been selected by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation to join an elite group of Astronaut Scholars for the 2019-20 academic school year.

The recipients of the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships and the Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Endowed Excellence Award for 2019 have been named.

Read the message from Mark J. T. Smith and Daina Ramey Berry providing an update on the Graduate Education Task Force and sharing preliminary recommendations and announcements.

On April 30, UT Austin with generous financial support from the University Co-op, recognized excellence in graduate academics, teaching and professional services, and undergraduate superior scholarly or creative achievement at the annual University Co-op Graduate and Undergraduate Academic Excellence Awards ceremony.