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The Office of Career & Life Design
The Office of Career & Life Design aims to empower all graduate students and postdocs to design their own paths. They act as a central hub for resources, services and support so that all grad students and postdocs can excel in their work, build essential skills, maintain personal well-being and prepare for their future careers.
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7,500+
Master's Students
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U.S. University with NSF Research
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#13
For Scientific Research
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#14
Most Innovative School in the U.S.
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The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
Postdoctoral scholars at the University can access a site dedicated entirely for them. Meet the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, learn more about onboarding and benefits, get access to resources and more!
Events for Graduate Students
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@utaustingradschool“The sentences ‘I gave her the pen I found on my desk yesterday’ and ‘I gave the pen I found on my desk yesterday to her’ convey roughly the same event, but the first sounds more natural,” said Harrington Fellow Qing Yao, first-year Ph.D. student in computational linguistics.
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@utaustingradschool“Empower Your Pitch helped me translate my research to a broader audience while also teaching me ways to connect and communicate with the audience effectively,” said Adwait Pradhan, winner of the Community Choice Award for Excellence at the 2025 Empower Your Pitch.
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@utaustingradschool“It is a privilege to work with not only professors in my home department in art history, but from other fields such as literature, history and ethnomusicology," said Chasitie Brown, a Harrington Fellow and fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in @ut_aah.
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@utaustingradschool“Empower your Pitch is a great opportunity for me to see that I am not alone in my research endeavors,” said Lisa Wang, winner of the Outstanding Public Engagement Award at the 2025 Empower Your Pitch.
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@utaustingradschoolThe Graduate School celebrated the retirement of Senior Associate Dean Marvin Hackert this week with a celebration and bench dedication at the East Campus Graduate Apartments.
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@utaustingradschool“Empower Your Pitch was a special experience that helped me improved my communication skills in presenting for a non-technical audience,” said Cole Maguire, winner of the Overall Excellence in Research Communication Award at the 2025 Empower Your Pitch.
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@utaustingradschool“Empower Your Pitch was a fantastic opportunity to not only clarify my own ideas to myself, but also effectively communicate my work to a broader audience,” said Ellen Sirower, winner of the Outstanding Creativity Award at the 2025 Empower Your Pitch.
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@utaustingradschoolYou might have seen Yanbing Zhou before...at the Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies. Prior to pursuing a Ph.D. in exercise physiology with @utexascoe, Zhou was a professional DanceSport athlete for 20 years.
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@utaustingradschoolEmma Palmer, who is in the last year of her Ph.D. in environmental and water resources engineering from @cockrellschool, is passionate about understanding fundamental environmental interactions and the impacts on sustainability and human health.