Alumni Ambassadors AMA: Ph.D. Edition

    Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM until 7:00 AMCentral Standard Time UTC -06:00

    Considering the leap into a doctoral program? Wondering what research, funding, and advisor dynamics are really like behind the scenes? Join our Ph.D. Edition Alumni Ambassador AMA (Ask Me Anything) for candid insights from doctoral graduates who have successfully navigated the entire journey.

    Whether you're curious about securing stipends, balancing lab or field research, managing your dissertation, or deciding between academia and industry, our alumni panel is ready to answer your most pressing questions.

    Fill out the form below to register—we’ll send reminders and access details as the date approaches! We can’t wait to learn more about you and your research aspirations.

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Glasscock School of Continuing Studies"><option value="8306C13D-7775-4BB8-9556-26E2D4BC4B03" data-text="8306C13D-7775-4BB8-9556-26E2D4BC4B03">Interdisciplinary Studies-Master of Interdisciplinary Studies(On Campus)</option><option value="CD3A30A9-0150-4F56-A359-2A97C78FAE8F" data-text="CD3A30A9-0150-4F56-A359-2A97C78FAE8F">Education-Master of Arts in Teaching(On Campus)</option><option value="31A8D838-911B-4101-8693-7344F5F7070F" data-text="31A8D838-911B-4101-8693-7344F5F7070F">Education-Master of Arts in Teaching(On Campus)</option><option value="BAB160F8-8777-4C28-9D95-79ED181A147F" data-text="BAB160F8-8777-4C28-9D95-79ED181A147F">Interdisciplinary Studies-Graduate Certificate: Dual Credit Teaching Credentialing - History(On Campus)</option><option value="1FB09569-35C7-4D28-8453-89B97C405387" data-text="1FB09569-35C7-4D28-8453-89B97C405387">Interdisciplinary Studies-Diploma in Liberal Studies(On Campus)</option><option value="6D083E01-F396-43F7-BD22-A19C1F4A8D19" data-text="6D083E01-F396-43F7-BD22-A19C1F4A8D19">Education-Master of Arts in Teaching(On Campus)</option><option value="91C91FEC-7E9C-45DF-B3B3-C0FFB487D7D4" data-text="91C91FEC-7E9C-45DF-B3B3-C0FFB487D7D4">Interdisciplinary Studies-Graduate Certificate: Dual Credit Teaching Credentialing - English(On Campus)</option><option value="ABC109D6-0EA3-40B5-A5C1-EFE19A2E3E59" data-text="ABC109D6-0EA3-40B5-A5C1-EFE19A2E3E59">Education-Master of Arts in Teaching(On Campus)</option></optgroup><optgroup label="George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing"><option value="306E8E09-6662-4754-B57C-02BA91DB6E35" data-text="306E8E09-6662-4754-B57C-02BA91DB6E35">Data Science-Master of Data Science(On Campus)</option><option value="E1C6B43B-60E2-4AC6-9470-0B4377844BCB" data-text="E1C6B43B-60E2-4AC6-9470-0B4377844BCB">Bioengineering-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="81269268-58CF-4ACB-BA76-1726EE06B5C7" data-text="81269268-58CF-4ACB-BA76-1726EE06B5C7">Computational Science and Engineering-Master of Computational Science and Engineering(On Campus)</option><option value="1BF8BD30-1FE3-484C-AE27-31DE191857DE" data-text="1BF8BD30-1FE3-484C-AE27-31DE191857DE">Mechanical Engineering-Master of Mechanical Engineering(On Campus)</option><option value="33579A39-5102-4264-88F1-3AF5D1A1D4D0" data-text="33579A39-5102-4264-88F1-3AF5D1A1D4D0">Statistics-Master of Statistics(On Campus)</option><option value="A4C87EEE-7728-4771-B868-3AF789301849" data-text="A4C87EEE-7728-4771-B868-3AF789301849">Engineering Management and Leadership-Graduate Certificate: Product Management for Engineering Leaders - Online(Online)</option><option value="7056F5B2-DF59-4874-BC32-5330CBE06E22" data-text="7056F5B2-DF59-4874-BC32-5330CBE06E22">Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research-Master of Computational and Applied Mathematics(On Campus)</option><option value="83ED6929-AC87-43E0-B99D-57C714DF0B76" data-text="83ED6929-AC87-43E0-B99D-57C714DF0B76">Industrial Engineering-Master of Industrial Engineering(On Campus)</option><option value="4C8EDFBA-174C-46B2-840E-5CAB6D96B604" data-text="4C8EDFBA-174C-46B2-840E-5CAB6D96B604">Engineering Management and Leadership-Master of Engineering Management and Leadership(On Campus)</option><option value="2D8E692B-35E6-492D-A96D-66D6D1EAC34D" data-text="2D8E692B-35E6-492D-A96D-66D6D1EAC34D">Electrical and Computer Engineering-Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering(On Campus)</option><option 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data-text="6463D246-5407-4B01-9F35-9C1AC755CD24">Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="EF4D688F-82DE-4E16-8047-9EF8E8F85C54" data-text="EF4D688F-82DE-4E16-8047-9EF8E8F85C54">Engineering Management and Leadership-Graduate Certificate: Engineering Project Management - Online(Online)</option><option value="EE3FCB2B-BC95-4B7A-9D69-A0DF198071DC" data-text="EE3FCB2B-BC95-4B7A-9D69-A0DF198071DC">Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering-Master of Chemical Engineering(On Campus)</option><option value="EEBA86AB-F5CF-4EDE-88AA-A3FFD1970B74" data-text="EEBA86AB-F5CF-4EDE-88AA-A3FFD1970B74">Bioengineering-Master of Bioengineering (Global Medical Innovation)(On Campus)</option><option value="6241188C-BD00-478D-94CB-A99F57437FE9" data-text="6241188C-BD00-478D-94CB-A99F57437FE9">Computer Science-Master of Computer Science - Online(Online)</option><option value="A6B4D139-22D5-4DA4-9ACF-AEC4606488AA" data-text="A6B4D139-22D5-4DA4-9ACF-AEC4606488AA">Computer Science-Master of Computer Science(On Campus)</option><option value="F4848BA9-4516-4B42-855C-B6331763C9EA" data-text="F4848BA9-4516-4B42-855C-B6331763C9EA">Mechanical Engineering-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="F6CBA9CE-2EE8-4C72-B720-B706CF441253" data-text="F6CBA9CE-2EE8-4C72-B720-B706CF441253">Statistics-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="ED11A356-2D64-48F2-9EDA-C2AC387BE7BF" data-text="ED11A356-2D64-48F2-9EDA-C2AC387BE7BF">Materials Science and NanoEngineering-Master of Materials Science and NanoEngineering(On Campus)</option><option value="E60E754F-AACE-4D69-9F4D-C5800EEFDFDF" data-text="E60E754F-AACE-4D69-9F4D-C5800EEFDFDF">Mechanical Engineering-Master of Science(On Campus)</option><option value="55C51AF4-BEF7-4C1F-A8CC-CB8B9AB779AF" data-text="55C51AF4-BEF7-4C1F-A8CC-CB8B9AB779AF">Materials Science and NanoEngineering-Master of Science(On Campus)</option><option 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Health-Master of Digital Health(On Campus)</option><option value="8BD21C01-D927-47B0-BB90-E28D32D6DBD2" data-text="8BD21C01-D927-47B0-BB90-E28D32D6DBD2">Artificial Intelligence-Master of Artificial Intelligence(On Campus)</option><option value="E26DE4AE-7186-408F-A7AC-E3A45611E52C" data-text="E26DE4AE-7186-408F-A7AC-E3A45611E52C">Engineering Management and Leadership-Master of Engineering Management and Leadership - Online(Online)</option><option value="05133874-C891-4100-8D7E-F26023EDA927" data-text="05133874-C891-4100-8D7E-F26023EDA927">Engineering Management and Leadership-Graduate Certificate: Engineering Project Management(On Campus)</option><option value="222192D5-DA72-42A6-9CB8-F319ADA83D2A" data-text="222192D5-DA72-42A6-9CB8-F319ADA83D2A">Data Science-Master of Data Science - Online(Online)</option><option value="21DEE47A-5993-4B2C-8833-FC7177446541" data-text="21DEE47A-5993-4B2C-8833-FC7177446541">Materials Science and NanoEngineering-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option></optgroup><optgroup label="School of Humanities and Arts"><option value="0FFE6FE3-0FDA-42BC-AF5C-012F9A704C2F" data-text="0FFE6FE3-0FDA-42BC-AF5C-012F9A704C2F">Creative Writing-Master of Fine Arts(On Campus)</option><option value="A297674D-BCDC-4B3C-A0A1-1ACA51B53A8D" data-text="A297674D-BCDC-4B3C-A0A1-1ACA51B53A8D">English-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="BBCEE8FC-48E3-41BF-9FD7-1FE30AFED71B" data-text="BBCEE8FC-48E3-41BF-9FD7-1FE30AFED71B">History-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="0C4BF76C-0701-42AA-AFAD-75BCC88211BF" data-text="0C4BF76C-0701-42AA-AFAD-75BCC88211BF">Philosophy-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="D0F7849A-4075-4161-BF22-7EAC59C4B420" data-text="D0F7849A-4075-4161-BF22-7EAC59C4B420">Art History-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="850726C3-8BA0-492D-82B0-85298477D626" data-text="850726C3-8BA0-492D-82B0-85298477D626">Religion-Master of Arts(On Campus)</option><option 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data-text="2B9AB8AF-717C-43A4-9D4B-81AC37C9991F">Music-Doctor of Musical Arts(On Campus)</option><option value="AA39AE32-7329-47D6-9AD5-C1DB9C8D5555" data-text="AA39AE32-7329-47D6-9AD5-C1DB9C8D5555">Music-Master of Music(On Campus)</option><option value="EE43FD36-2D98-4B3D-B64E-CE02C8B1201F" data-text="EE43FD36-2D98-4B3D-B64E-CE02C8B1201F">Music-Bachelor of Music(On Campus)</option></optgroup><optgroup label="Wiess School of Natural Sciences"><option value="938D2389-D14D-4C17-9165-0EA2A550ACA7" data-text="938D2389-D14D-4C17-9165-0EA2A550ACA7">Earth Environmental and Planetary Sciences-Master of Science(On Campus)</option><option value="ACBCD252-C87B-4003-A851-348DDE531EA5" data-text="ACBCD252-C87B-4003-A851-348DDE531EA5">Bioscience and Health Policy-Master of Science in Bioscience and Health Policy(On Campus)</option><option value="E6D975B9-169F-4065-ABCE-749A218290EF" data-text="E6D975B9-169F-4065-ABCE-749A218290EF">Biochemistry and Cell Biology-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="4393BFD3-74A0-4A98-AACA-79A06FC0ABC2" data-text="4393BFD3-74A0-4A98-AACA-79A06FC0ABC2">Mathematics-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="451A4E89-33D8-469B-9878-8327BECE1690" data-text="451A4E89-33D8-469B-9878-8327BECE1690">Physics and Astronomy-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="46716F12-EA03-495F-A824-8D63F7E02059" data-text="46716F12-EA03-495F-A824-8D63F7E02059">Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="BDA773D2-D8CA-4B34-9C5B-9FD54C8D2D55" data-text="BDA773D2-D8CA-4B34-9C5B-9FD54C8D2D55">Earth Environmental and Planetary Sciences-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="E3C57452-07AF-4510-9630-BBE8E3CE9A6E" data-text="E3C57452-07AF-4510-9630-BBE8E3CE9A6E">Space Studies-Master of Science in Space Studies(On Campus)</option><option value="612DF407-81F9-437B-847E-C231D0CAA366" data-text="612DF407-81F9-437B-847E-C231D0CAA366">Science Teaching-Master of Science Teaching(On Campus)</option><option value="70ED8E61-CA58-4E3C-975B-D2F0902D9BB6" data-text="70ED8E61-CA58-4E3C-975B-D2F0902D9BB6">Applied Chemical Sciences-Master of Science in Applied Chemical Science(On Campus)</option><option value="D406C6F1-B5C8-4AA5-8E39-D9516AF3F875" data-text="D406C6F1-B5C8-4AA5-8E39-D9516AF3F875">Chemistry-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="A39C741E-6211-4869-91F9-DA5B48B159C6" data-text="A39C741E-6211-4869-91F9-DA5B48B159C6">Environmental Analysis-Master of Science in Environmental Analysis(On Campus)</option><option value="CFE23A8E-463F-4ADC-B693-E27FCA4E9539" data-text="CFE23A8E-463F-4ADC-B693-E27FCA4E9539">Energy Geoscience-Master of Science in Energy Geoscience(On Campus)</option></optgroup><optgroup label="School of Social Sciences"><option value="18FF4C7B-1BA9-47EC-A809-195641AC2B92" data-text="18FF4C7B-1BA9-47EC-A809-195641AC2B92">Computational Economics-Graduate Certificate: Computational Economics(On Campus)</option><option 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Campus)</option><option value="BBEF27DC-CD23-4E74-ABED-657E5D22663D" data-text="BBEF27DC-CD23-4E74-ABED-657E5D22663D">Computational Economics-Master of Computational Economics(On Campus)</option><option value="2141A6BC-C381-47C8-B8A1-C7142CC319FC" data-text="2141A6BC-C381-47C8-B8A1-C7142CC319FC">Computational Economics-Graduate Certificate: Computational Economics - Online(Online)</option><option value="81B8B5FB-E93A-46F4-BC6A-E1CE0D4A061C" data-text="81B8B5FB-E93A-46F4-BC6A-E1CE0D4A061C">Human Computer Interaction and Human Factors-Master of Human Computer Interaction and Human Factors(On Campus)</option><option value="921871FB-5F2B-4202-8464-EBF6E675F084" data-text="921871FB-5F2B-4202-8464-EBF6E675F084">Political Science-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="5D4ACB42-6931-41E9-92E5-F5AEB1484648" data-text="5D4ACB42-6931-41E9-92E5-F5AEB1484648">Economics-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option><option value="9A36B433-1CFE-4C94-9BD3-FE430785A699" data-text="9A36B433-1CFE-4C94-9BD3-FE430785A699">Psychological Sciences-Doctor of Philosophy(On Campus)</option></optgroup>