The College of Natural Sciences is the second largest college at The University of Texas at Austin, with 9 departments and schools, over 8,000 students, and 33 research units.
Established: 1970 Dean: Dr. Mary Ann Rankin
Faculty
(Updated August 2009)
- More than 600 faculty
- 15 members of the National Academies
- 2 Nobel Laureates
- 1 Turing Award winner
- 17 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1 National Medal of Science
- 1 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- 1 Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- 2 Howard Hughes Early Career Scientists
Students
- Approx. 8,000 undergraduates
- Approx. 1,800 graduate students
Extramural Funding
- $99 million/year (average 2002-2006)
National Rankings
(From U.S. News & World Report 2009)
- Ecology, Evolution and Behavior - 8
- Analytical Chemistry - 5
- Computer Sciences - 9
- Artificial Intelligence - 5
- Programming Language - 8
- Computing Systems - 8
- Computing Theory - 10
- Mathematical Analysis - 10
- Applied Math - 9
- Topology - 7
- Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity - 8
- Plasma - 5
By the number
- 3000 strains of living algae in the Culture Collection of Algae
- 11.1 x 9.8 meters - the size of the primary mirror in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, currently the world's third largest optical telescope
- 1,000,000 plant specimens in the Plant Resources Center, the largest herbarium in the southwestern U.S.
- 887 species of moths found at BFL
- 185, 708 acres in the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, managed by the Marine Science Institute to promote research, education and stewardship of coastal estuaries
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