Some students have created pods, closed groups of people who interact with one another but not with those outside of the group, to maintain social interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University began distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to members of the 1B group — people 65 and older or 16 and older with underlying health conditions — on Jan. 19, according to a UT spokesperson.
Resources including Student Emergency Services, Sure Walk and locations in the Texas Union will be available to students for the spring semester, following policies from the fall semester.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading member of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force, received the Ken Shine Prize in Health Leadership from Dell Medical School Thursday.
On-campus dorm residents at UT will be required to take a COVID-19 test within four days of returning to their residence hall according to an email they received Friday.
UT Health Austin received 2,925 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Monday to be distributed to frontline UT health care workers as part of the first Texas shipment in a nationwide vaccination effort.
According to the lawsuits, the defendants falsely accused classics professor Thomas Hubbard of promoting pedophilia, and their statements caused “significant damage” to him. He is seeking monetary damages.
