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Accolades

Three Recent Texas Science Graduates Receive Fulbright U.S. Student Awards

The awards will allow these UT alumni to conduct research or teach English abroad.

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Research

Digital platform supports personalized diet goals in primary care for diabetes

A new study evaluates Nutri, a clinical decision support tool for brief diet counseling in safety-net clinics, created by UT researchers.

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Accolades

Deborah Jacobvitz Earns 2025 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award

The award recognizes her exemplary research on attachment theory and other areas of family relationships.

Deborah Jacobvitz

UT News

Ready to Change the World: Dat Duong

Dat Duong, a 2025 graduate from the College of Natural Sciences, made key contributions while studying in the UT School of Human Ecology.

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Accolades

Meet Three Exceptional Seniors Among our 2025 Graduates of Distinction

More than 150 top CNS students have been selected and celebrated for their distinctive contributions.

2025 Graduates of Distinction. From left: Sanjaya Kumar, Hayden Stegall and Miriam Yampuler

Department of Nutritional Sciences

Elizabeth Widen Earns American Society for Nutrition Award

The Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award honors early-stage investigators.

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Department of Nutritional Sciences

Elizabeth Klingbeil Becomes a Fellow of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals.

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Features

How a Nutrition Class Became One of UT’s Most Popular

The online, synchronous Fundamentals of Nutrition course proves to be as worthwhile as it is engaging for UT undergraduates across all majors and rank years.

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Announcements

Cross-Border University Collaboration Will Expand Research to Advance Precision Medicine

The OriGen Health Research Center will mine a massive biobank of genetic, clinical and epidemiological information to develop customized disease treatments.

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Accolades

Stephen Russell Elected to National Academy of Education

He is director of the School of Human Ecology and a professor of human development and family sciences at UT.

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