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The Graduate School T-Shirt Design Contest

March 24, 2025
The Graduate School is calling on graduate students to design the next UT Graduate School t-shirt! All currently enrolled master's and doctoral students are eligible to compete for a cash prize.
Jordan Cordel wears a black and white patterned shirt and makes the "hook em" sign onstage, surrounded by seven other people applauding, holding his giant check for one thousand, five hundred dollars from the Texas Revue.

McCombs graduate student wins 2025 Texas Revue Talent Show for singing

March 11, 2025
With 13 contestants performing talents ranging from singing to Indian classical dance, Jordan Cordel’s debut song “Lonely” took the hearts of judges and audience members.
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Resources for Graduate Students - February 2025

Feb. 27, 2025
Welcome to the February edition of our graduate student newsletter. Below you will find graduate student resources and upcoming programming available to you. This month, I encourage you to try something new—such as participating in Empower Your Pitch, the research communication competition that enables participants to convey the impact of their research to a general audience.
In the first image, a woman with black hair wears a brown dress and blue lanyard in front of a white and orange poster. The title on the poster is "Health Digital Game Adaptation for a Native American Tribe Using Virtual CBPR." In the second image, another woman with long black hair wears a brown jacket and a lanyard, and stands in front of another white and orange poster. The poster reads "Situation-Specific Theory on Kidney Health Inequities Among Midlife Women from Ethnic Minority Groups in the U.S."

2 Nursing PhD Students Present Research at SNRS Conference

Feb. 26, 2025
The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing PhD students, Cheongin Im, MSN, BSN, RN, and Dongmi Kim, BSN, RN, recently presented their research at the Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) 39th Annual Conference, Feb. 19-21 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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From Scraps to Sips: Everyday Biomass Produces Drinking Water from Thin Air

Feb. 24, 2025
Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells and many other natural materials are key ingredients in a new system that can pull drinkable water out of thin air developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Jackson School Symposium Winners and Q&A

Feb. 19, 2025
This year, 126 students presented their research at the 14th Annual Jackson School of Geosciences Research Symposium on Feb. 14, 2025.
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Peihao Wang Receives Best Paper at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Feb. 17, 2025
Wang's current research focuses on theories and applications of geometric learning, language models, generative models, and 3D computer vision.
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Ruisi Cai Receives 2025 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

Feb. 12, 2025
Cai's research primarily focuses on large language model (LLM) efficiency, reasoning, and AI security, specifically efficient training and inference for large foundation models while enhancing decision-making capabilities.
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Kennedy Simon’s Dedication to Uplifting Voices as a Barbara Jordan National Forum Co-Chair

Feb. 10, 2025
Kennedy Simon (MPAff '25) keeps Barbara Jordan’s legacy alive through leadership and advocacy.
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Mitigating Change - Profile Shoshi Reich

Feb. 10, 2025
Shoshi Reich is a CSEM graduate student at the Oden Institute. Passionate about mitigating climate change, she contributes to NASA’s ECCO project, balancing her rigorous research with pottery as a creative outlet.