The School conducts graduate and undergraduate degree programs and research in the natural sciences, mathematics, and science education.
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Myron Salamon, Dean
Myron B. Salamon, PhD, welcomes you to the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (message)
Kenneth J Balkus
Like the hunter who finally catches the fox, Kenneth Balkus, Jr., Ph.D., must be pleased whenever he develops a better chemical trap. He works with zeolite materials - porous crystalline metal oxides that act as ion-exchangers used in water softening and as absorbents and catalysts. (more)
Tour NSERL Bulding
UT Dallas vice president for research Bruce Gnade narrates this three-minute audio slideshow about the new Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory. (more)
Dr. Kenneth Balkus, Professor of Chemistry, Earns Prestigious W. T. Doherty Award
Honor Given For Significant Achievement In Research, Teaching, and Service
The award will be formally presented at a fall DFW ACS meeting at which Balkus will present an award address.
"I am quite honored to receive this award but most of the credit belongs to all my students and post docs who over the past 20 years generated the science being recognized," Balkus said. (more)
A Glimpse of Graduation: Bree Szostek's Commencement Speech
"Thinking back on my college experience I realized we all came to UTD for different reasons but we all had one common goal: a life beyond college. For us, college was never supposed to be the end, we always had a sense of a bigger purpose. The question now is how we will achieve our goals." (more)
UTeach Dallas Receives $200,000 gift from Sid W. Richardson Foundation
Efforts by The University of Texas at Dallas to graduate more math and science teachers for Texas middle and senior high schools have received a $200,000 gift from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. read more
New Properties Discovered for Nanotube Sheets
A team of nanotechnologists at UT Dallas, along with Brazilian collaborators, have discovered that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce bizarre mechanical properties when stretched or uniformly compressed. These properties could be used for making composites, artificial muscles, gaskets or sensors. read more
