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Deborah Jacobvitz Earns 2025 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award

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

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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

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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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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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Whole Communities — Whole Health

Faculty Collaborations Awarded 'Fast Track to Impact' Support

Human Development and Family Sciences faculty are leading research in a campus-wide Bridging Barriers initiative.

A child's sense of neighborhood cohesion could impact their cognitive health later in life.

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Celebrating the 2024 College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Honored Graduates

Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community.

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Williamson and York Receive Fulbright Awards

The  Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program.

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Faculty Member Honored with Early Career Award

Maria Arredondo, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences and the Department of Psychology, has been named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, one of the top honors in the field.

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Natural Sciences Researchers Win President’s Award for Global Learning

A team with two CNS undergraduates of UT Austin were involved with research about the relationship between undergraduates' mental health and their social support networks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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