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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.

The National Science Foundation recently announced the 2024 award winners for its Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and includes 31 current UT graduate students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evolution is a slow process occurring over many generations, but it can happen more quickly in some cases than others. A team of scientists, led by Ph.D. student Kendra Zwonitzer, has found out why mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, may be evolving rapidly in some plants.