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Graduate School Announces 2024 Award Winners

May 2, 2024
The Graduate School has announced the 2024 winners of its professional and student awards. The awards recognize excellence in graduate academics, teaching and professional services.
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National Science Foundation Announces 2024 Graduate Fellowship Awardees

April 18, 2024
The National Science Foundation recently announced the 2024 award winners for its Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and includes 31 current UT graduate students.
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Four Graduate Students Win at 2024 Empower Your Pitch Competition

April 16, 2024
On April 11, 2024, four graduate students took home awards at The University of Texas at Austin's inaugural Empower Your Pitch competition. The top three award winners will receive a funded trip to Washington, D.C. to celebrate and perform, and compete with winners from Johns Hopkins University.
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UT’s Excellence and Impact On Display in Latest Graduate School Rankings

April 9, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin continues to be one of the premier schools for graduate studies, according to U.S. News & World Report’s partial release of its most recent “Best Graduate Schools.” UT made gains in several disciplines, including the College of Education’s jump into the top 10.
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Celebrate Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week | Message from Dean Ades

April 1, 2024
Today marks the start of National Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, a celebration honoring the impact and value of graduate and professional students on college campuses and beyond. In honor of the occasion, I wanted to take a moment to recognize your outstanding contributions as graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Universal Brain-Computer Interface Lets People Play Games With Just Their Thoughts

March 29, 2024
Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a program as part of research into brain-computer interfaces to help improve the lives of people with motor disabilities. Graduate students in the lab of José del R. Millán, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dell Medical School’s Department of Neurology, are helping with this program.
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Announcing Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week | April 1-5, 2024

March 22, 2024
Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week recognizes the contributions, impact and value of our graduate and professional students. The Graduate School has partnered with the Graduate Student Assembly to host a week's worth of events celebrating graduate students the week of April 1.
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New Semiconductor Master’s Program Will Offer Hands-on Experience in Rapidly Growing Industry

March 20, 2024
A new master’s degree program at The University of Texas at Austin will help fill the demand for semiconductor scientists and engineers and give students a chance to lead the next wave of innovation in the booming semiconductor industry.
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Tanks of the Triassic: New Crocodile Ancestor Identified

March 18, 2024
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. William Reyes, a doctoral student at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences, led the research that has been published in The Anatomical Record.
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Events for Graduate Students

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Event Status
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Saturday May 11, 2024, 8:30 am - 11:30 am
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The Graduate School will hold Convocation on May 11, 2024, to celebrate master’s and doctoral candidates graduating in the Summer 2023, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 terms.
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Event Status
Scheduled
Saturday May 11, 2024, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Bass Concert Hall
The Graduate School will hold Convocation on May 11, 2024, to celebrate master’s and doctoral candidates graduating in the Summer 2023, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 terms.
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    Ayesha Mahmood, a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate studying microbiology in the College of Natural Sciences, finds bacteria extremely captivating.

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    Inspired by his work at a forensic finance consulting firm before grad school, Prateek Mahajan now studies finance as a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the McCombs School of Business.
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    Inspired by his work at a forensic finance consulting firm before grad school, Prateek Mahajan now studies finance as a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the McCombs School of Business.

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    Using a sociological lens, Faith Deckard’s work focuses on better understanding how people and their families navigate the criminal legal system and its aftermath. A sixth-year Ph.D.
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    Using a sociological lens, Faith Deckard’s work focuses on better understanding how people and their families navigate the criminal legal system and its aftermath. A sixth-year Ph.D.

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    Combining his interests in education and the psychology of learning, Ph.D. student Ryan A. Mata focuses on how facets of identity and culture play a role in educational trajectories and outcomes for adolescents and undergraduates. Ryan is a 2nd year Ph.D.
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    Combining his interests in education and the psychology of learning, Ph.D. student Ryan A. Mata focuses on how facets of identity and culture play a role in educational trajectories and outcomes for adolescents and undergraduates. Ryan is a 2nd year Ph.D.