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Whether you’re looking to get more involved on campus or just looking for support in advocating for your needs, the Graduate Student Assembly should be one of your first points of contact during your time in grad school. Here's why.

Researchers at UT Austin have reached a significant breakthrough in their efforts to create drinkable water out of thin air: a molecularly engineered hydrogel that can create clean water using just the energy from sunlight.

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This year, more than a dozen University of Texas at Austin students and alumni were recipients of some of the world’s most competitive scholarships and fellowships. Many competed against thousands of other applicants, and all were recognized for their intellectual curiosity, hard work and commitment to changing the world.

The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials at The University of Texas at Austin has been on the leading edge of materials development for the past six years. With a fresh infusion of funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the center will turn its attention to new research thrusts that will bring to life materials with enhanced properties and capabilities.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers is establishing a retreat for internationally known writers at the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s former residence in Sag Harbor, New York.

Dr. Will Burg’s dissertation, “Collective Quantum States in Twist Controlled Graphene Heterostructures” was awarded the 2023 Michael H. Granof Award – the Graduate School’s most prestigious honor. The contributions of his groundbreaking dissertation is widely recognized by those in the field and can potentially lead to new quantum devices for computation.

LLILAS master’s student Pedro Valdez-Castro has been awarded a Brumley NextGen Fellowship by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at LBJ School of Public Affairs. During academic year 2023–24, he will develop a research project within the center’s Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative and receive mentorship from its director, Stephanie Leutert.

Just as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning emerge as the fastest-growing in-demand skill sets in the global workforce, The University of Texas at Austin is establishing a new online master’s program in AI with the potential to bring thousands of new students into the field.

Kimberly J. Long, a Ph.D. candidate in the Dalby Lab in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, was a first author of a recent research paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).