Graduate School News
Graduate Students in the News
- Benjamin Breen, Ph. D. Candidate in the History Department, garners numerous awards for work on early modern drug trade (5/2013)
- A history student's road to dissertation travels through the southeast borderlands (4/2013)
- Graduate student Hye Ji Cha discovers a current antifungal drug may be beneficial in cancer therapy (8/2012)
- Statoil Awards New Fellowships to eight graduate students (4/2012)
- Studio Arts M.F.A. student selected as a Luce Scholar (3/2012)
- Architecture student Tara Dudley wins Carter Manny Award from the Graham Foundation. (9/2011)
- Students inspire others to give for disaster relief (9/2011)
- Graduate students report on the changing policy landscape after 9/11 (9/2011)
- MFA candidate Courtney Sale creates her "september play", a work of remembrance and observance of 9/11 (9/2011)
- Doctoral student Michelle Hsieh works to diagnose hearing impairments in children. (7/2011)
- Graduate students travel to Haiti to help assess a rural community's needs (7/2011)
- Graduate students in architecture design new school for children in East African villages. (6/2011)
- Doctoral student Snowden Becker helps individuals preserve their family history. (5/2011)
- Pharmacy doctoral candidate Millidhashni Reddy wins $10,000 Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award (5/2011)
- William Bibee, a Hebrew Studies grad student, has won the prestigious Javits Fellowship. (3/2011)
- McCombs School MBA students win the second annual Ross Energy Club’s Renewable Energy Case Challenge (1/2011)
- Graduate student Michael Waring studies the quality of our indoor air (7/2009)
- Recent Radio-Television-Film graduate Gabriela Yepes wins Best Student Film category at the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes. Read her blog for more information. (5/2009)
- Doctoral candidate Kristina Durante and Assistant Professor Norm Li publish their research findings revealing high hormone levels in women may lead to infidelity (1/2009)
- UT graduate student writes memoir of her life in Iran
- Ph.D. student in social work receives Hartford Foundation grant to study long-term care planning behavior of baby boomers (11/2008)
- Graduate student finds new ant species (9/2008)
- Chemical engineering doctoral student honored (9/2007)
- World's largest student literary prize awarded to graduate student (6/2007)
- Graduate students honored for excellence in graduate education (5/2007)
- Doctoral student awarded interdisciplinary fellowship promoting community engagement (5/2005)
- Student works on Central Park art project (2/2005)
- Students build satellites headed for space (1/2005)
- 2004 Harrington Fellows named (10/2004)
- Physics graduate student to attend international meeting with Nobel laureates (6/2004)
- Graduate students' films to be screened at prestigious Cannes Film Festival (4/2004)
- National Society of Black Engineers honors doctoral student for automobile research (2/2004)
Graduate School Alumnus in the News
- Laura Bush named a 2012 Distinguished Alumna (5/2012)
- Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee's archive acquired by Harry Ransom Center (10/2011)
- RTF Alumnus Soham Mehta receives Student Academy Award for his film "Fatakra" (5/2011)
- Graduate School alumnus Mary McCombie Named a Fulbright Scholar for 2011-12 (5/2011)
- Michener Center graduate first poet to win Keene Award for Literature (5/2011)
- Graduate School alumnus Victor Hugo Bray, Jr. named 2010-2011 College of Communication Outstanding Alumnus (4/2011)
- Graduate Alumnus, Christian Rabeling, Awarded Three-Year Harvard Society Fellowship (2/2011)
- Michener Writing Center graduate wins Keene Prize for Literature (7/2009)
- UT Alumna Becomes First 1910 Society Member (3/2009)
- University of Texas at Austin students and alumni collaborate on feature production (7/2005)
- Radio-Television-Film alumnus named finalist for two Student Academy Awards (5/2004)
- Fine Arts alumnus named museum curator (1/2004)
- Alumnus J. M. Coetzee awarded 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature (10/2003)
Graduate School in the News
- Challenge Grant of $250,000 Supports Powers Graduate Fellows (6/2011)
- Press Release: Powers Graduate Fellowship Created with $1 Million Gift (5/2009)
- Dean of the Graduate School named one of "20 Elite Women" by Hispanic Business Magazine (4/2007)
- Michael Adams named Director of the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program (2/2007)
- Associate Dean in the Graduate School named national social worker of the year (2006)
- Marvin Hackert appointed to replace John Dollard as the Graduate School's new Associate Dean (9/2005)
- Associate Dean John Dollard appointed Vice Provost (8/2005)
- Social Work Professor named new associate dean in the Graduate School (9/2003)
- Victoria Rodríguez named new Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies (6/2003)
