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Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week recognizes the contributions, impact and value of our graduate and professional students. The Graduate School has partnered with the Graduate Student Assembly to host a week's worth of events celebrating graduate students the week of April 7.

Welcome to the March edition of our graduate student newsletter. I hope you had a great spring break and are rested and ready to take on the rest of the semester. Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation week is April 7-11, and we are partnering with the Graduate Student Assembly to celebrate UT Austin’s amazing graduate students.

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.

Alejandra Y. Castillo, an alumna of The University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, will return to her alma mater on May 10 to deliver the LBJ School’s 2025 commencement address. The ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium.

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.

Connor Crawford came to UT after spending nearly four years at Lockheed Martin. He received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2022, and then started Pike Robotics as an extension of his research. Pike Robotics aims to take people out of hazardous environments and improve the efficiency and safety of infrastructure inspections.

When Brien Smith, BBA ’79, MPA ’81, was inducted into the Texas McCombs Hall of Fame last fall, he told the audience of lifelong friends and family that he credits his time at UT for preparing him for success — not only in business, but in life. “I love this university. It’s given me everything,” he said.

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.

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.

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.