I’d like to welcome you to graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin—whether you’re just starting your journey or returning to campus.
The Graduate School is here to help you navigate your degree and provide resources for academics, career development, and physical and emotional wellbeing. I encourage you to learn about and take advantage of the many resources available to you—starting now. It’s not too early to tailor your time here so that you can get the most out of this experience.
The Graduate School’s Grad Life websitecompiles resources available to students across campus, including career development, housing and transportation, health and wellness, families and childcare, and student organizations. These include:
Texas Career Engagement (TCE) partners with departments across campus to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in their career and professional development. From career advising to workshops, you can use this professional support service from the first day of class.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers many specialized programs and services for graduate students, including the Teaching Preparation Series, individual consultations on drafting teaching statements and online workshops on a variety of teaching topics.
The University Writing Center (UWC) provides a range of free programming to support graduate students, including individual in-person and online consultations. Their trained graduate student consultants can provide feedback on any project at any stage of your writing process.
Student Activities compiles a list of the 1,300 student organizations on campus, many of which are devoted to graduate students. Additionally, the Recreational Sportsdivision provides many sports and wellness resources, including intramural sport leagues.
Overleaf Professional is a collaborative authoring tool that makes it easier to use LaTeX, the typesetting system for technical and scientific documentation. It is free and can help with the publication of scientific documents in scholarly journals and for reports, theses and dissertations.
NameCoach is a tool available in Canvas that helps instructors correctly pronounce the names of their students. Graduate students can record the pronunciation of their names by navigating to any Canvas course and selecting NameCoach. (Note: the course instructor must activate NameCoach for students to record their names.) More instructions are available at UT ServiceNow. (After logging in, type NameCoach in the “How can we help?” search box.)
The new Honor Codearticulates the University’s commitment to the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity and provides guidance for students to work honestly, respectfully, and through the intentional pursuit of learning and scholarship.
Additionally, you can learn about your fellow graduate students and their work at UT Austin on our graduate student profiles website.
I wish you a great fall semester! I hope you will stay up to date on graduate student events and resources by following the Graduate School on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Sincerely,
MARIA JUENGER, Interim Dean, The Graduate School
L.B. (Preach) Meaders Professor of Engineering
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin | gradschool.utexas.edu
This communication is from Graduate Students – Official. View this email online.
