The McKinney Fellows presented on their research at the McKinney Fellows Symposium held in the D. T. Blackstock Auditorium at the Applied Research Laboratories on Thursday, September 18th, 2025. The current McKinney Fellows are (from left to right in the picture below) Anika Cho, Cassidy Christie, Kayla Cecil, Philip Kaufinger, and Chirag Gokani. Anika joined the program this fall and is the newest McKinney Fellow. The abstracts of the talks can be found here.

The Chester M. McKinney Graduate Fellowship in Acoustics is awarded annually to one incoming student to the Graduate Program in Acoustics, providing the opportunity to perform funded research at the Applied Research Laboratories at UT Austin.