The flagship of Texas, a top public research university where computing, mathematics, energy, law, and public affairs meet under the motto that what starts here changes the world.
12 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
Thank you for serving the Forty Acres as its 31st president after years of quiet operational stewardship, keeping a great public university aimed at the people of Texas.
Provost
Office of the Provost
Thank you for bringing a historian's long view of statecraft and strategy to the work of leading Texas's academic enterprise.
Professor of Computer Science; Founding Director, Texas Robotics
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for RoboCup, for Texas Robotics, and for a career spent teaching machines to learn from experience without ever losing sight of the humans they serve.
Professor, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Computer Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for keeping quantum computing honest, explaining exactly what it can and cannot do, and for two decades of essays that taught the world complexity theory.
Professor, Truchard Family Chair in Natural Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for teaching computers to see the world the way people do, from first-person video to embodied agents that learn by looking and moving.
Director, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences; Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Thank you for digital twins and model reduction that let engineers simulate what they could never afford to test, and for leading the Oden Institute with vision and generosity.
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Thank you for the regularity theory of free boundary problems, honored with the Abel Prize, and for making Austin a world capital of partial differential equations.
University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Thank you for decades of showing Texans that effective thinking can be learned, and for making mathematics a source of joy for tens of thousands of students.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Thank you for discovering that writing about our hardest experiences can heal, and for the language analysis showing how our smallest words reveal our inner lives.
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law
School of Law
Thank you for half a century of constitutional scholarship that asks the questions others avoid, from Constitutional Faith to whether our Constitution is democratic enough for its people.
Professor, Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Thank you for electronic tattoos, soft wearable sensors that read the body's signals as gently as skin itself, opening a kinder future for health monitoring.
Professor of Public Affairs; Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values; Founding Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
LBJ School of Public Affairs and Department of History
Thank you for chronicling the Black Power era and Barbara Jordan's legacy with scholarship that helps America understand its own long struggle for democracy.
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