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Graduate Students and Postdocs Gain Professional Edge at Business and Etiquette Dinner

Nov. 13, 2025
The Office of Career and Life Design hosted the Business and Etiquette Dinner for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars on November 12, 2025 at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center with Etiquette Trainer Summer Salazar.
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Resources for Graduate Students - November 2025

Nov. 10, 2025
The Graduate School and its campus partners provide the resources below to help graduate students navigate their degrees, career development and physical and emotional well-being.
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From Zimbabwe to Austin: PhD Student Bruce Machona’s Mission to Transform Maternal Health

Nov. 10, 2025
Bruce Machona, MSN, RN, a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing graduating in Fall 2025, is driven by a personal and professional mission: to improve maternal health for women living with gestational diabetes, particularly in resource-limited settings, like his native country of Zimbabwe.
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A Guide to iSchool Researchers at ASIS&T 2025

Nov. 7, 2025
Nineteen iSchool professors, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and graduates will have their work presented at the conference, led by our interim dean, Prof. Soo Young Rieh.
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Graduate Student Research: New Transistor Design Expands 3D Memories

Nov. 6, 2025
Researchers in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a breakthrough in transistor design that reduces leakage current in very small geometry transistors by more than a factor of 10.
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RGK Alum Brings Leadership and Heart to Nonprofit Work in Texas

Nov. 6, 2025
LBJ School Master of Public Affairs and RGK Nonprofit Studies Portfolio alumna Becky Pastner has spent over 20 years contributing to the Texas community. During her sixteen years with the St. David’s Foundation, she played a pivotal role in deploying billions of dollars throughout Central Texas.
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Countdown to Commercialization

Nov. 5, 2025
The precise navigation technology that could guide self-driving cars and self-flying planes — and has already become common in space technologies ranging from satellite constellations to the docking system for powerful booster rockets — started as a modest research project that aimed to better understand GPS signals.
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Graduate Student Research: Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1

Oct. 27, 2025
Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars – too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, it was long believed that gravity from a mysterious substance called dark matter was the main binding force.
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From D.C. to the Forty Acres: An LBJ Student’s Global Policy Journey

Oct. 27, 2025
For first-year Master of Global Policy Studies student Isabelle Iguchi (MGPS ’27), public service isn’t just a career path, it’s a calling.
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Postdoc Research: A Gem of a Battery Breakthrough

Oct. 27, 2025
A pair of ceramic materials could unlock the potential of safer, longer-lasting solid-state batteries.