All News

On Oct. 25, 2019, the Graduate School held the finals of its Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on the UT campus, with curriculum and instruction Ph.D. student Daniel Thomas winning first prize for his presentation, “Black Male Teachers Entangled in Pathology.”

Civil, architectural and environmental engineering Ph.D. student Farid Khosravikia was runner-up for “Dangerous Earthquakes Triggered by Humans in Central U.S.” and physics Ph.D. student Avik Roy won the People’s Choice Award for “Looking for the Li'l Ones.”

You could say that the research of mathematics student Lisa Piccirillo (Ph.D. ’19) is from another dimension: it examines the topology and geometry of four-dimensional spaces. 

Piccirillo’s dissertation “Knot Traces and the Slice Genus,” is the winner of the 2019 Michael H. Granof Award—the university’s top dissertation and graduate student award.

The University of Texas at Austin has been invited to join the California Alliance's Research Exchange Program. The Research Exchange provides underrepresented minority students opportunities to learn and network at partner institutions including University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford University, UCLA, Harvard, University of Washington and Georgia Tech.

Mentorship is among the most important factors in the development of graduate students. Successful mentors challenge students to grow intellectually, provide personal support and guidance during their studies and help prepare them for careers as scholars.