The University of Texas at Austin is supported by highly experienced and dedicated faculty members who are distinguished nationally and internationally and include winners of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize and many others. In addition, numerous faculty members have been nominated for membership in prestigious scholarly organizations. Some of the top faculty members worth mentioning are listed below:
- Steven Weinberg (Nobel Prize for Physics, 1979)- Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science Regental Professor
- David Oshinsky (Pulitzer Prize, 2006)-The George Littlefield Professor of American History
- George Sudarshan (Drac Medal, 2010)-Professor in the Department of Physics
- Karen Uhlenbeck (National Medal of Science, 2000)-Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics
- Allen Bard (Wolf Prize, 2008)-Norman Hackerman - Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry