Graduate Student Issues

Dept. of Physics, UT Austin

The Graduate Student Representatives serve as liaisons between graduate students and faculty.
We hold bi-monthly meetings with the Graduate Welfare Committee.
Recent Topics of concern have been:

• Core Class standardization
• Grilling Sessions (Practice talks critiqued by fellow grad students before a Qualifier)
• First-year student mentoring program
• Resource survey
• Homework database
• First-year Happy Hour
• Sexual Harassment
• TA workload
• TA appointments
• 9.222 renovation

Voice your opinion

• Latest Updates and News
• Who We Are
• Meeting Minutes, Reviews, and Guides

Latest Updates and News

• 14 Aug 2006 - UTphysgrad Google Group is launched.
• Jun 2006 - 2006 Graduate Representative Board takes over.
• 27 Apr 2005 - Minutes posted for recent GRB, GWC and faculty meetings.
• 15 Apr 2005 - GRB meeting minutes posted.
• 29 Mar 2005 - GWC meeting and Open House minutes posted.
• 08 Mar 2005 - 2005 Graduate Representative Board takes the helm.


• 17 May 2004 - Graduate Welfare Committee meeting minutes added.
• 29 Feb 2004 - This Wednesday (March 3) the Graduate Representative Board held an Open House for all physics graduate students.
• 17 Feb 2004 - Graduate Welfare Committee meeting minutes added.
• 10 Feb 2004 - Graduate Representative Board meeting minutes added.

Who We Are

• 2007 Graduate Representative Board
• 2006 Graduate Representative Board
• 2005 Graduate Representative Board

Minutes, Reviews and Guides

• 27 Sep 2005 Faculty Meeting (html)
• 16 Sep 2005 Meeting of the Graduate Welfare Committee (html)
• 7 Sep 2005 Meeting of the Graduate Representative Board (html)
• 15 Apr 2005 Meeting of the Graduate Representative Board (html)
• 01 Apr 2005 Meeting of the Graduate Representative Board (html)
• 25 Mar 2005 Meeting of the Graduate Welfare Committee (html)
• 24 Mar 2005 Open House (html)


• 07 May 2004 Meeting of the Graduate Welfare Committee (html) (pdf)
• 16 Apr 2004 Meeting of the Graduate Welfare Committee (html) (pdf)
• 13 Mar 2004 Faculty Meeting (html) (pdf)
• 13 Mar 2004 Graduate Student Open House (pdf)
• 13 Feb 2004 Meeting of the Graduate Welfare Committee (html) (pdf)
• 10 Feb 2004 Meeting of the Graduate Representative Board (html) (pdf)
• The an old "Graduate Student Review" (pdf)
  
• The independently run UT Physics Survival Guide, in its new LiveJournal Format.