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Associate Professor Ben Lear Completes Fulbright Fellowship in Finland
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Bean Lear in Finland
2D-materials center ready to move to new phase, add industry partners
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Illustrated vision for the center

The Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings is expanding to add more collaborative partners.

Lauren Zarzar receives Marion Milligan Mason Award
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Lauren Zarzar
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment survey begins full operations
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope at dusk
Astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems
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many planetary systems

A new study helps explain some of the intriguing questions about exoplanets raised by the Kepler space telescope.

Kenneth Knappenberger named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Kenneth Kappenberger
Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?
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Membraneless compartments made from short polymers
Chemistry Students Receive Continuing Graduate Student Awards
16-year-old cosmic mystery solved, revealing stellar missing link
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blue ring nebula

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the blue ring nebula.

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