New Grad Student Orientation

The 2007 entering graduate class

Row 1 (L to R): Shelly Casciato, Mei Shen, Sarah Stranahan, Lauren Gehman, Sarah Swingle, Ting Yan

Row 2: Takuji Adachi, Katherine Koen, Xiaojie Wang, Rachel Butorac, Jaya Srivastava, Lauren Lytwak, Micah Glaz, Gabriela Vargas, Michelle Adams, Amy Bonaparte, Sarah White, Derric Borthwick

Row 3: Katie Clark, Joyce Er, Cassidy Terrell, Nicole Harzdorf, Erin Walker, Seyma Keskin, Michelle Fox, Caroline Gibbs, Abram Axelrod

Row 4: Ryan Cheng, Chun Jung Chen, James Bradley, Lily Abbott, Patricia Estep, Steven Kehoe, Jeffrey Potratz , Jeffrey Knight, Michael Elmuccio, Christianah Layode, Jeffrey Aaronson, Paul Alvey

Row 5: Daniel Dreyer, Thomas Barton, Jason Zbieg, David Ulkoski, Nathaniel Bill, Leo Joyce, James Roberts, Alexander Nichols, Jeffrey Pruet, Samuel Long, Rye Terrell, Cheng-Hao Liu, Stephanie Taylor, James Madsen, Cynthia Pan, He-Chun Chou

Row 6: Charles Varnado, Isaac Arnquist, Christopher Bejger, Zachary Pozun, Arnold Ruymgaart

The 2006 entering graduate class

Row 1 (L to R): Leen Alawieh, Emily Carino, Daphne Sung, Jaclyn Wiggins, Evelyn Rosen, Jiajia Cai, Melissa Shiroda, Semih Afyon, Brian Zaccheo, Haley Finley-Jones, Jodi Connell, Megan Brown, Monica Villa, Yu-Shan Yeh

Row 2: Lauren De Pue, Timothy Balasavage, Corinne Atkinson, Jiyuen Kim, Yanjie Zou, Todd Hoppe, Alec Brozell, Sei Hyun Choi, Travis Hesterberg, Ki-Youl Yoon, Kerianne Crandall, Julianne Moore, Susan Anderson

Row 3: Christina Wales, Audrea Buckley, Carol Parr, Lisa Vasicek, Josh Biberdorf, Colin Kubarych, Ryan Littich, Tsung-Hao Fu, Justin Dragna, Bi-Chang Chen

Row 4: Stainslaw Goldwyn, Fernando Pedraza, Jeremy O’Connell, Vera Myers, Daniel Propheter, Jung Don Suk, Garen Holman, Si Chon Lao, Noah Benjamin, Herierto Rivera

Row 5: William McCarty, James Myslinski, Ryan Patman, Caesar Almaraz, Christopher Grant, Michael Jacobsson, Justin Poag, Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, Vladimir Roznyatovskiy, Adam Powell, Eric Shields

The 2007 entering biochemistry graduate class

(L to R): Chun Jung Chen, Jaya Srivastava, Patricia Estep, Jeffrey Potratz, Stephanie Taylor, Cynthia Pan, Jeffrey Knight

















Typical course registration

See the What to Register for? section of the Graduate advising page.

Mandatory trainings

  • Graduate School Orientation
    • This link was sent with the Welcome letter, but here it is again if you have not done it yet.
  • Ethics Training
    • This short online training is required for all new graduate students.
  • Safety Training
    • You must register for and take OH 101 and 201 at this website. These safety training classes are required by everyone who will work in a lab either as a TA or GRA.
  • Human Resources Orientation
    • You must attend an orientation with the Office of Human Resources to enroll yourself in one of the available health insurance plans. The orientations are all held in NOA 4.106 and you must register for them online at this website. (Click on Graduate Student Sessions and enter your UT EID and password.) The available time slots fill up fast.

Joining a research group

Choosing a research adviser will be your most significant activity of your graduate years. You may join the group of any faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, any faculty member who has a joint appointment with this department, or any faculty member from another department who is a member of our Graduate Studies Committee. There are no divisional boundaries in terms of what type of research you undertake or what group you join. There are no formal deadlines, but popular groups fill up fast. To assist in your decision, you should attend seminars by faculty members, meet individually with faculty members, attend group meetings, and consult with current graduate students. Once you have selected a group and reached agreement with the professor, submit a signed "permanent adviser form" to the Graduate Office.

Useful links:

  • TA tips
  • A collection of advice from our graduate students designed for the incoming graduate class
  • On being a TA is the presentation given during orientation week (coming soon).
  • The TA Handbook produced by the undergraduate course office is primarily written for TAs teaching general chemistry lecture classes, but contains information that may be useful to any TA.
  • How to get keys
  • UT EID your electronic identification
  • The Graduate student writing service is a free consultation service from the UT Learning Center.