Those foundational academic areas remain at the core of the University, organized within the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM). This fall, the school welcomed five new tenured and tenure-track faculty members, and the new Sciences Building opened its doors to new and returning Comets. “There will be many science courses taught in this building in addition to physics, so most of our science students will be passing through the building regularly,” said Sherry, who joined the UT Dallas chemistry faculty in 1972. If you want to do big projects, you must involve multiple disciplines.”NSM includes the departments of Geosciences, Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, Mathematical Sciences, and Science/Mathematics Education. My areas of expertise complement those of several faculty members in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.