Where UT Austin Postdoctoral Scholars Find Onboarding, Benefits, and Resources

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Postdoctoral scholars at The University of Texas at Austin have a dedicated site section within the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (graduate.utexas.edu), reached through the "Postdoctoral Studies" area of the main navigation. That section is described as a site dedicated entirely to postdoctoral scholars, covering team introductions, onboarding, benefits, and resources. It is separate from the graduate student resources, so postdocs should start there rather than in the degree-navigation pages.

What the Postdoctoral Studies section covers

According to the office's homepage, the postdoctoral section is built around four things:

  • Meet the team — who staffs postdoctoral support at the University.
  • Onboarding — information for scholars starting at UT Austin.
  • Benefits — what postdoctoral scholars can access.
  • Resources — additional material for the postdoc community.

The homepage also notes that the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs hosted the 2026 UT System Postdoctoral Research Symposium, with more than 100 postdocs attending, alongside speakers, workshops, an interactive poster session, awards, and a closing reception. That gives a sense of the programming side of postdoc support beyond the static pages.

How to get there

  1. Go to graduate.utexas.edu.
  2. In the main navigation, select Postdoctoral Studies.
  3. Use the section's own menu to move between the team, onboarding, benefits, and resources pages.

The homepage presents this as a distinct destination ("Explore the site"), not a subsection of the graduate student pages — so if you land on admissions or "Navigating Your Degree" content, you are in the wrong area.

What this section is not

The same site serves prospective and current graduate students through separate paths: program exploration and admissions, key dates for registration and payment deadlines, and degree-navigation help. Those pages are aimed at master's and doctoral students, not postdocs. The homepage's enrollment figures — 7,500+ master's students and 4,500+ doctoral students — describe the graduate population, and the rankings and news items are general to the graduate school.

If your question is about applying to a graduate program, checking registration or payment deadlines, or progressing through a degree, use those graduate student sections instead. If your question is about starting a postdoc, your benefits, or who to contact on the postdoctoral team, the Postdoctoral Studies section is the right entry point.

A practical note

The homepage does not list specific benefit details, onboarding steps, or contact names — those live on the section's own pages. Treat the homepage as the signpost and expect to click through to get the actual information. For time-sensitive matters such as symposium dates or onboarding deadlines, check the section directly rather than relying on the homepage news feed, which mixes postdoc items with graduate program news.