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Inaugural Postdoctoral Symposium Recognizes and Awards Postdocs

Sept. 25, 2024
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs recently held the inaugural Postdoctoral Appreciation Week Symposium to showcase postdoctoral research and offer postdocs access to resources, networking opportunities and more.
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Celebrating National Postdoc Appreciation Week

Sept. 16, 2024
Today marks the start of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, a celebration to recognize the significant contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to research and discovery. In honor of this week, The Graduate School wanted to take a moment to recognize your outstanding contributions as postdocs at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Architecture Students Designing With AI

Sept. 12, 2024
With text prompts from students and photos of their architectural models, Daniel Koehler’s Advanced Design students can use AI to generate 50,000 images. Students then can evaluate intuitively where they see value among those thousands of designs. Koehler, who teaches the course, believes AI will free students to increasingly use emotional intelligence, soft skills, cognitive flexibility, communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking in their work.
On the left, a Vibrio cholerae strain that produces the antimicrobial MvcC (center) outcompetes a surrounding V. cholerae strain that does not produce an antidote to the antimicrobial. This creates a zone of exclusion between the two strains (dark ring). On the right, neither strain produces an antimicrobial and so neither has a competitive advantage. Credit: Bryan Davies/University of Texas at Austin.

Newly Discovered Antimicrobial Could Prevent or Treat Cholera

Sept. 11, 2024
More than a million people each year die from infections by pathogens that are resistant to antimicrobials, and the problem is growing. Researchers at UT see promise in a class of natural antimicrobials called microcins. In a pair of recent papers, the researchers identify the first known microcin that targets the strains of bacteria that cause cholera and describe a method for finding microcins in bacterial genomes with the help of artificial intelligence.
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A Place to Belong

Sept. 6, 2024
Growing up in San Antonio, Mary Braunagel-Brown, had only a distant sense of herself as belonging to the Osage Nation and the broader Native American community. In recent years, the UT alum has provided the first-ever endowment gift for the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at UT, a general fund she expects will support students in Native American and Indigenous Studies adjusting to life on campus.
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Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants

Sept. 3, 2024
Researchers have discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly related SARS-like coronaviruses that infect other animals. The team, led by UT engineers and scientists, obtained the exact molecular sequence of the antibody, opening the possibility of manufacturing it on a larger scale for future treatments.
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In-Person Contact Linked With Lower Levels of Loneliness in Older Adults

Aug. 28, 2024
In-person contact helps lead to lower levels of loneliness in older people, but other ways of staying in touch, such as phoning, emailing or texting, are not as effective in lowering loneliness, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan have found. The findings have implications for the health and well-being of many older people.
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Early Galaxies Were Not Too Big for Their Britches After All

Aug. 26, 2024
When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early universe from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they were expecting to find galactic pipsqueaks, but instead they found what appeared to be a bevy of Olympic bodybuilders. However, according to a new study led by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Katherine Chworowsky, some of those early galaxies are in fact much less massive than they first appeared.
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Ph.D. Student Named an Empower Your Pitch Championship Winner

Aug. 22, 2024
Brandy Routh, a fourth-year Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate, was named as one of three winners of the 2024 inter-university Empower Your Pitch competition this summer. The event featured participants from the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and The University of Texas at Austin.
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Events for Graduate Students

Libraries
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Scheduled
Monday October 7, 2024, All day
Last call for proposals for the UT Libraries Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowship, an annual research incentive initiative.
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Tuesday October 8, 2024, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
East Mall & Speedway Plaza
What will your next degree be? Learn more about graduate degree programs and connect with recruiters from more than 115 schools around the world.
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Scheduled
Tuesday October 8, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
This session will describe the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center's Well-being in Learning Environments project that collaborates with faculty to support student mental health. During the session, we will learn about and practice various wellness strategies, including expressing gratitude, developing a growth mindset, and being self-compassionate.
Career and Professional Development
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Scheduled
Tuesday October 8, 2024, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Peter T. Flawn Academic Center (FAC), 2.134
In this clinic, we will briefly go over best practices for resume writing before breaking off into pairs to peer review each other's resumes.
Career and Professional Development
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Tuesday October 8, 2024, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Peter T. Flawn Academic Center (FAC), 2.236
Are you an international graduate student or post-doc eager to brew up success in your career journey? Join us for an invigorating and enlightening experience at the Coffee and Connections Hour, where meaningful conversations blend perfectly with the aroma of delicious coffee.
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    Postdocs at The University of Texas at Austin were recognized at the inaugural Postdoctoral Appreciation Week Symposium for their research during an interactive poster session.<br><br>Winners include: <br>Louise Ince, first place, College of Pharmacy
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    Postdocs at The University of Texas at Austin were recognized at the inaugural Postdoctoral Appreciation Week Symposium for their research during an interactive poster session.

    Winners include:
    Louise Ince, first place, College of Pharmacy

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    The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs hosted the inaugural National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week symposium at the JJ Pickle Research Campus. <br>
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    The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs hosted the inaugural National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week symposium at the JJ Pickle Research Campus.

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    National Postdoc Appreciation Week is a celebration to recognize the significant contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to research and discovery.
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    National Postdoc Appreciation Week is a celebration to recognize the significant contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to research and discovery.

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    Our new graduate students started their classes today on the Forty Acres & we’re so excited to see what they accomplish! If you’re new, welcome!! If you’re returning to campus, welcome back! We missed you!🤘
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    Our new graduate students started their classes today on the Forty Acres & we’re so excited to see what they accomplish! If you’re new, welcome!! If you’re returning to campus, welcome back! We missed you!🤘

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    Neuroscience Ph.D. Brandy Routh was named as one of three winners of the 2024 inter-university Empower Your Pitch championship this summer. Read more about the competition and her research via the link in our bio.
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    Neuroscience Ph.D. Brandy Routh was named as one of three winners of the 2024 inter-university Empower Your Pitch championship this summer. Read more about the competition and her research via the link in our bio.

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    Liam Norris, today’s #UTGradStudentProfile, is the kid who never grew out of his dinosaur phase. Since childhood, he’s been fascinated by ancient life and the majestic creatures that once roamed the planet for millions of years. Now a fourth-year Ph.D.
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    Liam Norris, today’s #UTGradStudentProfile, is the kid who never grew out of his dinosaur phase. Since childhood, he’s been fascinated by ancient life and the majestic creatures that once roamed the planet for millions of years. Now a fourth-year Ph.D.

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    Xinyue “Sally” You has always been interested in why people behave and interact the way they do, especially as it relates to immersive technology. Sally will begin her second year as a Ph.D.
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    Xinyue “Sally” You has always been interested in why people behave and interact the way they do, especially as it relates to immersive technology. Sally will begin her second year as a Ph.D.

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    Mercy Sosanya (Nutritional Sciences Ph.D., ’24) spent nearly a decade of her life exploring the issue of nutrition in her home country of Nigeria before beginning her doctoral program at UT Austin.
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    Mercy Sosanya (Nutritional Sciences Ph.D., ’24) spent nearly a decade of her life exploring the issue of nutrition in her home country of Nigeria before beginning her doctoral program at UT Austin.

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    Faith Deckard, Sociology Ph.D. graduate, has focused her research on better understanding how people and their families navigate the criminal legal system and its aftermath. <br>
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    Faith Deckard, Sociology Ph.D. graduate, has focused her research on better understanding how people and their families navigate the criminal legal system and its aftermath.