CURRENT & PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
Are you a Prospective Graduate Student?
Are you a Prospective Graduate Student?
Greetings from the Graduate Dean and Welcome! We hope that the information on this website provides a conviction that our offerings and capabilities are a vital match to your interests and career perspectives.
If you are thinking about becoming a graduate student, you should understand that graduate education may not be for everyone. Doctoral studies in our graduate programs will prepare your intellect and develop your technical skill-sets thereby equipping you to pursue career opportunities in research and education. One very special advantage of our doctoral programs is that we operate in a prominent academic health science university, where scientific inquiry can synergize with the healing professions to guide our science in seeking solutions to even the most vexing ills of mankind.
Contemporary graduate study can be characterized by three phases: opportunity1, challenge, and opportunity2. The first opportunity1 requires seeking an area of biomedical science to study that can anneal your scientific and mathematical knowledge with a literature-based, advanced experimental treatment of a specific problem. We strive to provide each student a highly focused research experience that will ensure depth of treatment and the capability to solve complex experimental problems by crossing disciplinary boundaries. The opportunity1 to define an area of study that is compellingly interesting is one of the most exhilarating academic experiences.
Once the subject of your doctoral dissertation study is selected, the challenges begin. Your ability to problem-solve in a highly sophisticated field of study are mentored by faculty, peers, and postdoctoral colleagues who are convinced that your development into an accomplished scientist will benefit everyone in pursuit of breakthrough discoveries in biomedicine. Challenges take the form of long hours in the laboratory, the tolerance of periods of ambiguity when experimental results don’t match established dogma or predicted outcomes, and the competitive aspect of modern science where there are many talented investigators seeking the same proofs and truths. One must develop sensitivity to the inherent excitement of the challenge.
Following the challenge phase there is a second opportunity2 phase during which the doctoral student has defined a unique dissertation problem, has creatively and tenaciously met the challenges of discovery, and then will be able to announce to the scientific world the research findings and conclusions of his or her hard work. Opportunities which enable a life-time commitment to discovery and learning are well worth all of the challenges met and dedication to essential tasks. Everyone who has scaled this mountain of opportunity, challenge, and opportunity would do it again merely for the shear excitement of being involved in experimental expeditions into the inner workings of our world.
Our hope is that you will join us here at the UT Health Science Center in this pursuit.
Merle S. Olson, PhD
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Are you a Current Graduate Student?
If you are a current graduate student you will find information concerning the following topics here: academic programs, class schedules, financial aid, forms and instructions relative to dissertation and thesis, international services, intramural sports, student government, student health, and many others.
If you are thinking about becoming a graduate student, you should understand that graduate education may not be for everyone. Doctoral studies in our graduate programs will prepare your intellect and develop your technical skill-sets thereby equipping you to pursue career opportunities in research and education. One very special advantage of our doctoral programs is that we operate in a prominent academic health science university, where scientific inquiry can synergize with the healing professions to guide our science in seeking solutions to even the most vexing ills of mankind.
Contemporary graduate study can be characterized by three phases: opportunity1, challenge, and opportunity2. The first opportunity1 requires seeking an area of biomedical science to study that can anneal your scientific and mathematical knowledge with a literature-based, advanced experimental treatment of a specific problem. We strive to provide each student a highly focused research experience that will ensure depth of treatment and the capability to solve complex experimental problems by crossing disciplinary boundaries. The opportunity1 to define an area of study that is compellingly interesting is one of the most exhilarating academic experiences.
Once the subject of your doctoral dissertation study is selected, the challenges begin. Your ability to problem-solve in a highly sophisticated field of study are mentored by faculty, peers, and postdoctoral colleagues who are convinced that your development into an accomplished scientist will benefit everyone in pursuit of breakthrough discoveries in biomedicine. Challenges take the form of long hours in the laboratory, the tolerance of periods of ambiguity when experimental results don’t match established dogma or predicted outcomes, and the competitive aspect of modern science where there are many talented investigators seeking the same proofs and truths. One must develop sensitivity to the inherent excitement of the challenge.
Following the challenge phase there is a second opportunity2 phase during which the doctoral student has defined a unique dissertation problem, has creatively and tenaciously met the challenges of discovery, and then will be able to announce to the scientific world the research findings and conclusions of his or her hard work. Opportunities which enable a life-time commitment to discovery and learning are well worth all of the challenges met and dedication to essential tasks. Everyone who has scaled this mountain of opportunity, challenge, and opportunity would do it again merely for the shear excitement of being involved in experimental expeditions into the inner workings of our world.
Our hope is that you will join us here at the UT Health Science Center in this pursuit.
Merle S. Olson, PhD
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Are you a Current Graduate Student?
If you are a current graduate student you will find information concerning the following topics here: academic programs, class schedules, financial aid, forms and instructions relative to dissertation and thesis, international services, intramural sports, student government, student health, and many others.
