The Andrew Ellington Lab and Lauren Ehrlich Lab in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, as well as the electrical and computer engineering professor Haris Vikalo’s research group, received the donations.
The Texas Prison Education Initiative offers free UT extension courses to women in the Lockhart Women’s Correctional Facility, but stopped classes when COVID-19 necessitated jails to lock down in March.
Faculty from the Cockrell School of Engineering are leading a four-year project in Alaska to study how climate change is affecting water quality and endangering Alaskan communities.
This month, the University of Texas System joined the Texas Library Coalition for United Action, a partnership between Texas universities to increase access to academic publications from their own faculty.
There are 58 estimated active cases on campus as of Tuesday. The positivity rate for clinical testing is 11.8% among students and 13.4% among faculty and staff since June 1.
The next step is to take samples from manholes around Austin to improve prevention and potential vaccination efforts in the future, a researcher on the project said.
