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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.

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.

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.

Odysseus, a lunar lander by Intuitive Machines, touched down on the south pole of the moon Thursday night, marking the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. A University of Texas professor and his students helped make it happen.

A discovery by Jackson School of Geosciences doctoral student Eric Hiatt shows that no matter how much rainfall fell on the surface of ancient Mars, very little of it seeped into an aquifer in the planet’s southern highlands.

Three Jackson School students – Eric Hiatt, Sinjini Sinha and Travis Stone – were among the 14 teaching assistants to be honored in January by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT). The Jackson School winners are all doctoral students in the school’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.