Dean’s Scholars
Program Overview
Learn more about the Dean’s Scholars Program’s honors curriculum and see examples of courses and four-year timelines.
Student Life
Our tight-knit and active student community is the heart of the honors experience.
Faculty & Student Leaders
Meet faculty and student leaders and advisors for the Dean's Scholars program.
Thesis Gallery
Explore past capstone theses presentations across the honors programs.
This community is warm and welcoming, full of high achievers who walk every possible path in the STEM world and are ready to share the experience and help you alongside them.”
Vivek Beeram
Dean’s Scholar and Neuroscience major
Student Life
Dean’s Scholars take classes together, attend special dinners hosted by faculty members, hear guest speakers during weekly Friday lunches and take weekend field trips to places such as the McDonald Observatory and the Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas. Dean’s Scholars go on to enter Ph.D., M.D. and other professional degrees at leading institutions worldwide, and many earn prestigious graduate fellowships after their time at UT Austin.
Thesis Gallery
Explore the capstone research of honors undergraduates, featuring theses that span disciplines and majors across CNS.
Potential Cellular and Immune Mechanisms
Potential Cellular and Immune Mechanisms Mediating Bilateral Retinal Ganglion Cell Response to Unilateral Optic Nerve Injury
Shelby Crowley, Class of 2026
This work integrates transcriptional and cellular analyses to examine how localized injury may produce distributed effects across the visual system and explores the potential role of early immune dynamics in coordinating regenerative responses.
Potential Cellular and Immune Mechanisms Mediating Bilateral Retinal Ganglion Cell Response to Unilateral Optic Nerve Injury
Shelby Crowley, Class of 2026
This work integrates transcriptional and cellular analyses to examine how localized injury may produce distributed effects across the visual system and explores the potential role of early immune dynamics in coordinating regenerative responses.
The Unknotting Number
The Unknotting Number Under Connecting Sum and Mutation
Srikha Chaganti, Class of 2026
In this thesis, we will explore the strategy employed to find the counterexample to the Unknotting Number Under Connected Sum conjecture, and the open problems that follow.
The Unknotting Number Under Connecting Sum and Mutation
Srikha Chaganti, Class of 2026
In this thesis, we will explore the strategy employed to find the counterexample to the Unknotting Number Under Connected Sum conjecture, and the open problems that follow.