Student Participants include: (UT Brownsville) Dianeth Rodri-guez, Frovlan Trejo, Cesar Roman Garcia, Martin Berolz, Jenny Leigh Ashley, Tonantzin Juarez (UTSA) Kathryn Dunlap, Kayli Hoffer, Katie Burzynski, Gerry Ramirez, Chris Gomez, Manpreet Behl, Sylvia Mendoza, Violet Gar-cia-Romero, Steven Sano, Renan Moreira UTSA Faculty Mentors include:

Michelle Little, Kay Robbins, Ruyan Guo, Eric Schlegel, Ben Olguin Raymond Baird, Rebekah Smith Michael Tapia, Stephen Bach Don Kurtz, Nicole Beebe, Misty Sailors, Armando Trujillo, Miguel Yacaman, Johnelle Sparks, Arturo

ixteen students from UTSA and UT Brownsville participated in the Prov-ost’s Sum-mer Re-

search Program during the Sum-mer, 2009, 10-week session. The program was designed to prepare students to be competitive appli-cants for doctoral and master’s programs, and to make a success-ful transition into a graduate pro-gram.

Students engaged in an in-depth research project with a faculty mentor from their academic inter-est, attended weekly professional development workshops, and a GRE preparation course. Students presented the results of their re-search projects at a poster session and awards ceremony that was

held on August 6, 2009.

Tonantzin Juarez was one of the 16 students who took part and was also the first recipient of the Provost’s Summer Re-search Program Scholarship. Tonantzin is a newly admitted Master’s student in the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts’ Psychology program.

Tonantzin graduated in May, 2009, from the University of Texas at Brownsville with bach-elor’s degrees in Psychology and History, and with dual language certification in Span-ish and English. Her long-term goal is to obtain a Ph.D. in So-cial Psychology. Her summer research project was focused on scientific meth-ods of selecting jurors.

KNOWLEDGE: AN INHERITANCE WORTH LEAVING PROVOST ’S SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM AT UTSA

L IBRARY OPENS GRAD-ONLY STUDY ROOM

he Graduate School is pleased to announce the opening of the first GRADUATE-ONLY study room at UTSA’s Main Campus. The study room is located on the 3rd floor of the John Peace Library, room 3.01.56. Signage is posted on the door to designate it as a “Graduate Study Area”. The room is first-come, first-served and cannot be reserved for private use. This first incarnation comes with a large white-board, 6-30x48 tables and 20 chairs. Two of the tables (with six chairs each) will be set in the center of the room, excellent for group projects! The Dean of the Library, Krisellen Maloney, committed the time and resources to make this space a reality and promises that this room is just the beginning. The Graduate Study Area is now open and available for use! For more information, please check your myUTSAmail.

Tonantzin Juarez

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

November 1, 2009: Application Deadline

for Spring 2010 Master’s Student

Admission (domestic)

Tonantzin Juarez, Scholarship Recipient

UTSA Graduate Fair October 6, 2009

9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

HSS Building Visit with representatives from

premiere Graduate and Profession-al Programs from Texas and across the country. For more information

call 210.458.5327 or visit www.graduateschool.utsa.edu

Graduate School Pan-el Discussion October 5, 2009

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

University Rm BB 2.06.04 Graduate School Faculty and Ad-ministrators share tips for success towards the graduate school appli-cation process. For more infor-

mation call 210.458.5327 or visit www.graduateschool.utsa.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT

PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS

FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

The Graduate School at UTSA is offering doctoral students the oppor-tunity for funding assistance for dissertation research through the Presidential Fellowship. Applicants must have received dissertation pro-posal approval before applying for this funding provided by the Presi-dent’s office.

The application deadline is Monday, September 28, 2009. The Commit-tee will determine the recipients and amount of awards based on the infor-mation submitted by applicants in the application packet. To deter-mine eligibility, please contact your program’s Graduate Advisor.

Learn about Graduate School

Graduate Program Information sessions are available throughout the Summer

and Fall, hosted by The Graduate School. If you would like to review

session dates and register, please visit http://events.embark.com/Event/UTSA/infosession/ and click on the

date that works best for you! For questions, please call 210.458.4335

UTSA

FALL 2009 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1

THE GRADUATE REPORT

Volume 2, Issue 1

Fall 2009

THE

GRADUATE REPORT

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO

he University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business has been ranked the No. 1 graduate business school in the nation for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine in its September 2009 edition.

"We are honored to be recog-nized by Hispanic Business," said Lynda de la Viña, dean of the UTSA College of Business and Peter Flawn Professor of Eco-nomics. "This ranking speaks to the quality of our academic programming and the services that we provide our MBA stu-dents and for our community. It elevates the college into the upper echelon of business schools in the nation."

This is the second year UTSA was included in the listing and the 12th year Hispanic Business conducted the study. The rank-ings (in order) included UTSA,

UT-El Paso, University of Miami, UT-Austin, Stanford University, University of New Mexico, Dart-mouth College, Florida Interna-tional University, University of California at Berkeley and Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Hispanic Business ranked the top 10 business schools nation-ally based on a number of crite-ria illustrating commitment to diversity including enrollment of Hispanics, percentage of full-time Hispanic faculty members, student support services, gradu-ation rates and graduate pro-gram reputation. The ranking also included the top universi-ties in medicine, law and engi-neering.

The UTSA College of Business offers a comprehensive business curriculum at the undergradu-ate, graduate and doctoral lev-

ro Energy Corp., will be sub-mitted for matching funds made available by the Texas Legisla-ture through the recently ap-proved Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP). The gift, Vale-ro's largest to UTSA, supports the university's mission to pro-vide access to higher education and the company's goal to be a good corporate citizen by strengthening the communities where it does business.

"This gift demonstrates the Valero Foundation's commit-ment to education in San Anto-nio," said Valero Chairman and CEO Bill Klesse. "It is our hope that these scholarships will help people get a quality education

alero Energy officials today an-nounced a $2.5 million gift to support graduate students in engi-neering and business, helping to strengthen the pipeline for leader-ship in these fields. The invest-ment also advances UTSA's bid toward recognition as a premier research university.

The gift from Valero Energy Foun-dation, the charitable arm of Vale-

and enable them to work at companies like Valero in the future."

"The strategic vision that moti-vated this gift and its impact to change lives reflects Valero's keen focus on building better communities," said UTSA Presi-dent Ricardo Romo. "Even in tough economic times, Valero again demonstrates leadership in philanthropy by investing in opportunities for San Antonio students to be successful."

UTSA will establish two graduate fellowship funds -- each with $1.25 million -- in both the Col-lege of Engineering and the College of Business, two of the fastest growing colleges at UTSA

UTSA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS RANKED NO . 1

VALERO INVESTS $2.5 M ILLION IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS

"THIS RANKING SPEAKS

TO THE QUALITY OF

OUR ACADEMIC

PROGRAMMING AND

THE SERVICES THAT

WE PROVIDE OUR

MBA STUDENTS AND

FOR OUR COMMUNITY .

IT ELEVATES THE

COLLEGE INTO THE

UPPER ECHELON OF

BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN

THE NATION . "

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els. The college's M.B.A. pro-gram was ranked No. 3 in the Southwest and No. 26 nation-wide by BusinessWeek. Addi-tional M.B.A. accolades in-clude being named one of the top 10 M.B.A. programs for minority students by the Princeton Review for the past four years and receiving the Brillante Award for Education-al Excellence from the Nation-al Society of Hispanic M.B.A's.

Nationally ranked and recog-nized, the UTSA College of Business is accredited by AACSB International, The Association to Advance Colle-giate Schools of Business. It is one of the 40 largest business schools in the nation with 5,800 enrolled students and 47 graduate and undergradu-ate business programs.

Article by Wendy Frost As seen on UTSAToday

September 2, 2009

and in Texas. When matched by the State of Texas, the funds will be $2.5 million for each college.

The UTSA College of Business is the largest, most compre-hensive business school in South Texas and one of the 40 largest in the nation. The College of Engineering has more than doubled in size in graduate enrollment in the last seven years and has been ranked in the top 10 for two of the last three years in the number of Hispanic engineers produced in the United

Article by David Gabler As seen on UTSAToday

September 1, 2009

A CLOSER LOOK: THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ’S NEW FACE ONLINE

he Graduate School is launching a brand new web-site. The new website will boast a more user-friendly format and navigation system and a brand new look. In addi-tion, the new site will house additional information and resources for current and pro-spective graduate students. The new web address for The Graduate School is: www.graduateschool.utsa.edu.

The Graduate School has also entered the world of online

social networking by develop-ing its very own Facebook Page. On this page, current and prospective UTSA Gradu-ate Students can view upcom-ing workshops, events and sessions hosted by The Gradu-ate School and other student services and academic depart-ments at UTSA. To become A FAN of the Graduate School Facebook page, you can search “UTSA The Graduate School” while logged into Facebook or Google search

TSA will receive $500,000 from the University of Texas System over

the next five years to develop a unique Graduate Program Initiative emphasizing biosensors and regen-erative medicine.

Of the 37 proposals received by the UT System from its nine academic and six health institutions, only seven were funded and only two were awarded to academic institu-tions. UTSA's Graduate Program Initiative builds upon existing pro-grams in the College of Engineering

and College of Sciences to prepare students for careers in academia, federal agencies and the biomedical industry.

"This program will provide qualified students with an exciting opportuni-ty to pursue interdisciplinary re-search in science and engineering," said Dorothy Flannagan, Dean of the UTSA Graduate School. "This unique program will allow students to inte-grate courses and research training in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and/or chemistry into their educational curriculum."

"Funding from this grant will foster and formalize new innovative collab-orations among participating faculty and students," said Anson Ong,

USAA Foundation Distinguished Professor and chair of the UTSA Department of Biomedical Engineer-ing. "Each academic discipline has a different way of thinking and a different way of solving problems. By working together, the students in this program initiative will better understand the complex health care problems as well as finding novel and innovative solutions to solving these problems."

Regenerative medicine and biosen-sors are key elements for the ad-vancement of science and the im-provement of human health. Regen-erative medicine allows scientists and practitioners to regenerate functional tissues in patients. Cur-

UTSA W INS $500K TO DEVELOP B IOMED DOCTORATE

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ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

ETHICS IN CONDUCT OF RESEARCH SEPTEMBER 12

GRADUATE WRITING SKILLS SEPTEMBER 19 & 23

PRESENTATION PROFICIENCY OCTOBER 7 & 17

EFFECTIVE GRANT WRITING OCTOBER 21 & 24

RESUME, CV AND COVER LETTER DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 3 & 7

INTERVIEW PREPARATION NOVEMBER 5 & 7

FINANCIAL AID & MONEY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS

FINANCIAL AID FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

SEPT 16 & NOV 21

FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL

OCTOBER 31

CALL 210.458.4111 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO REGISTER FOR THESE WORKSHOPS SPONSORED BY

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OR VISIT WWW.GRADUATESCHOOL.UTSA.EDU

succeed in graduate school and had the option to attend one of three break-out sessions cen-tered on academic excellence. To finish the day, the Graduate Student Association hosted a Welcome Social.

he Fall 2009 New Graduate Student Orientation boasted the largest attendance in the 5 years The Graduate School has hosted this event. 320 partici-pants attended Orientation and were able to receive infor-mation from 15 student service departments, all 7 colleges, and 2 graduate student organi-zations. In addition, Orienta-tion participants attended a panel discussion on tips to

To apply for graduate school visit www.graduateschool.utsa.edu. For graduate school inquiries, please call 210.458.5327

ORIENTATION ATTENDANCE BREAKS RECORDS

“UTSA The Graduate School Facebook Page”. The Graduate School looks forward to seeing you online!

rent treatments use tissues from the patient's own body or from a cadav-er. However, both approaches have many potential risks.

A biosensor is a device that allows scientists to detect biological chemi-cals such as enzymes, antibodies and disease-representing biomarkers, thereby providing early diagnosis and detection and improving treatments.

To learn more about UTSA's new interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, contact Anson Ong at (210) 458-7149 or email anson.ong@utsa.edu.

Article by Christi Fish As seen on UTSAToday

February 19, 2009

ACADEMIC RESOURCES = SUCCESS The Graduate School would like to welcome you for the Fall 2009 semester. We encourage you to take advantage of the variety of exceptional services and re-sources available to Graduate Students at UTSA. By visiting the Current Students page on The Graduate School website, you will find a downloadable document with a comprehensive list of Academic Resources (workshops, events, and ser-vices) for the Fall 2009 semester offered by: The Graduate School (workshops above, right), Tomás Rivera Center, Statistical Consulting Center, Library, Writing Center, and Teaching & Learning Center.

Services you will find include academic and professional development workshops, academic coaching, writing tutors, statistical consulting, and online assistance.