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UT-Austin to launch Spotify playlist highlighting student musicians

Arthur Yong November 20, 2020

UT plans to debut a Spotify playlist featuring student artists in early December to showcase students’ work to the community. The playlist will contain songs from all genres and is intended to...

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UT-Austin students struggle to find roommates for upcoming semesters

Elyanna Calle November 20, 2020

Students planning to live in Austin next year are facing difficulties finding roommates, citing inability to meet new people and uncertainty about the future of the pandemic. Some students, particularly...

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COVID-19 pandemic accelerates across US, Texas, Austin as holidays approach

Andrew Zhang November 20, 2020

COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths and case numbers continue to climb nationally and locally, causing worry for some UT students as they look toward the holiday season. Texas surpassed 1 million COVID-19...

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PCT participation increases at UT-Austin, walk-ups no longer guaranteed

Amanda Figueroa-Nieves November 20, 2020

Proactive Community Testing participation is now approaching the program’s 5,000 tests per week capacity after increased participation. Program director Michael Godwin said in an email that several...

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The Daily Texan November 20, 2020

The Daily Texan Staff November 20, 2020

Students look forward to eating meals from their culture for Thanksgiving, UT should avoid admitting students to specific majors, and the UT System approves President Hartzell's $1.25 million salary.

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UT-Austin engineers develop self-watering soil

Arthur Yong November 20, 2020

UT engineers have developed a gel that allows farmers to grow crops in areas that were once deemed agriculturally unsuitable. The gel is a novel super moisture-absorbent gel, which extracts water from...

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UT-Austin researchers develop new communication chip to overcome poor signals in bad weather

Tori Duff November 20, 2020

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering are developing a communication chip that is able to send signals in harsh weather and over greater distances. The team is developing this technology...

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Austin-Travis County moves into Stage 4 risk category after surpassing 30 new hospitalizations Sunday

Anna Canizales November 20, 2020

Austin is moving into the Stage 4 risk category for COVID-19, meaning businesses should reduce operations to 25% capacity and residents should end all nonessential travel and gatherings, Austin Public...

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On-campus students change living situations during COVID-19 pandemic

Cole Krautkramer November 19, 2020

Some students have changed their living situations in UT residence halls this semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A little over 3,300 individuals moved onto campus at the start of the semester. About...

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UT senior compiles data from subreddits to evaluate student COVID-19 responses

Hairuo Yi November 19, 2020

UT student Michelle Xia attempted to determine student sentiments toward topics such as COVID-19 in a recent study using data from the UT and Texas A&M University subreddits. Xia used a system of...

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LBJ School report says COVID-19 deaths in Texas jails, prisons are 35% higher than in rest of US prison population

Lauren Womack November 18, 2020

A report from researchers in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs shows that incarcerated people in Texas jails and prisons are dying at a rate 35% higher than the rest of the United States prison...

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UT School of Nursing professor develops anti-racist toolkit for health care educators

Kevin Vu November 18, 2020

Two years ago, Danica Sumpter, a clinical assistant professor at the UT School of Nursing, listened to a KUT report on Black women’s maternal mortality and learned that Black women in the United...

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