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.
Terrance...
The University is preparing to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers, following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state of Texas.
Amy Young,...
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UT will offer almost 60% of spring classes online with a similar number of courses having online, hybrid and in-person modality as in the fall semester. Students living in residence halls may...
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The UT System Board of Regents unanimously approved Jay Hartzell as permanent president of the University on Sept. 21 after he served as interim president since June 1.
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Dell Medical School adapted safety protocols and teaching methods due to COVID-19 this year, leading to a different learning process for medical students.
Beth Nelson, associate dean of undergraduate...
As COVID-19 vaccinations enter the final stages of approval by the federal government, UT is preparing for distribution.
Jonathan Robb, director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, said the...
The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, both of which were over 90% effective in trials, incorporated research from UT scientists.
The UT research team designed two mutations...
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...
Austin Mayor Steve Adler commended UT’s COVID-19 research Wednesday at the UT COVID-19 Conference.
The two-day conference showcased UT researchers’ COVID-19 findings and featured Adler as...
The University hosted the first day of the UT COVID-19 Conference on Tuesday, showcasing UT researchers’ COVID-19 projects.
Tuesday’s keynote speaker was Lauren Ancel Meyers, the executive...
A study of over 5,000 virus samples from the Houston area discovered a mutation to the COVID-19 virus that potentially makes it more contagious.
In the first phase of testing, 71% of the virus samples...
New research from the Jackson School of Geosciences found an absence of permafrost under the seafloor along the coast of northeastern Alaska, according to a press release.
The finding countered...
Incumbent Democrat Sally Hernandez has been reelected the Travis County Sheriff as of 8 p.m. on election night, defeating Republican candidate Raul Vargas with 71.3% of the vote, according to KXAN news.
The...
The Butler School of Music has allowed minimal in-person instruction and instituted strict scheduling policies due to new research about aerosols produced by wind instruments.
Aerosols are small...
A therapy dog at Dell Seton Medical Center went missing Oct. 19 while on a walk at the Turkey Creek Trail of Emma Long Metropolitan Park.
Jack, a small poodle, worked as a part of the trauma services...
The Moody College of Communication is creating a stuttering center funded by a 10-year $20 million grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education...
A team in the College of Liberal Arts has received a $450,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a project dedicated to developing software to annotate audiovisual humanities collections.
Tanya...
A UT interdisciplinary research unit and graduate program is developing advanced computer models with the support of a $16.5 million Department of Energy agreement.
Robert Moser, deputy director of...
UT researchers found two insecticides approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency that have harmful and lethal effects on bees and other beneficial insects.
The new insecticides...
Undergraduates may return to campus labs and research spaces if approved by a principal investigator starting Oct. 14, according to a Thursday email from Alison Preston, interim vice president for research.
Jennifer...
A team of UT researchers is developing an inhalable therapy for COVID-19, but the research needs further funding to go to clinical trials.
Pharmacy professor Hugh Smyth said the treatment uses...
UT-Austin surpassed 25% Hispanic undergraduate enrollment for the first time, according to a Sept. 22 press release, qualifying UT to apply to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution.
Hispanic-Serving...
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.
According...
UT students returning to campus this fall could still amplify COVID-19 transmission in Austin, but there may be a delay in detecting the spread, according to a report by the UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
“Chains...
UT will seek guidance from the National Park Service to offer Indigenous remains requested by the Miakan-Garza Band for reburial, according to a letter from University President Jay Hartzell.
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While the UT community accounts for about 25% of COVID-19 cases in Travis County since Aug. 26, the first day of classes, Dell Medical School experts said there seems to be little transmission between...
UT will increase research workforce density to 50%, resume some in-person interactions with human subjects starting Sept. 23 and allow undergraduates to return to labs in early October, according to the...
UT has reported a total of 1,117 COVID-19 cases since March 1, including over 600 cases since classes started Aug. 26, according to the UT COVID-19 dashboard as of Thursday afternoon.
The University...
Three UT students created a website for users to find and support locally owned and Black-owned restaurants.
LocoEats aggregates locally owned restaurants based on the location of the user. It...
Technical difficulties during the first day of the fall McCombs Career Expo caused some students to miss opportunities with recruiters and led to the postponement of the second day.
The career expo...
Editor’s note: This is an update to a story that was originally published on Sept. 10.
UT reported three coronavirus case clusters in West Campus with collectively about 100 positive cases on...
University Health Services offers free COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic students, faculty and staff through the Proactive Community Testing Program, but individuals who test positive must get a second...
The Miakan-Garza Band of Texas hosted a teach-in and ceremony Monday evening to continue to urge the University to return the remains of three of their ancestors.
Speakers recounted the history...
UT reported three coronavirus case clusters in West Campus with collectively about 100 positive cases on Thursday morning.
The University declined to communicate the addresses of the clusters, citing...
UT accounts for 23% of Travis County coronavirus cases in the past seven days, Austin Public Health officials said during a Friday news conference.
According to the UT COVID-19 dashboard, 112...
The University will continue to contact trace students, faculty and staff through an agreement between Dell Medical School and Austin Public Health, according to a message sent by UT Interim President...
The National Science Foundation selected UT on Aug. 26 to host the AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, which will help improve the basic technology behind artificial intelligence.
The...
The University denied a request this June from the Miakan-Garza Band, a Coahuiltecan tribe, for the remains of three Native Americans after the tribe initially requested them four years ago.
The Miakan-Garza...
Researchers around campus have reworked their schedules and forged new relationships with students to follow COVID-19 safety precautions while continuing research.
The Fall 2020 Planning Research Working...
The Counseling and Mental Health Center will continue to offer students the entirety of its services via telehealth this fall.
Ginny Maril, associate director for clinical services at CMHC, said individual...
While some lab instructors around campus have chosen to keep their courses in-person, many have transitioned to hybrid and web-based courses to better abide by COVID-19 safety precautions.
Of 1007 lab...
University Health Services will continue offering telehealth services this fall but will also use in-person services to distribute flu vaccinations and hold necessary visits.
Terrance Hines, chief...
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that asymptomatic members of the UT community can sign up for Proactive Community Testing.
University Health Services and UT Health Austin will...
Between 82 and 183 UT students may arrive infected with COVID-19 during the first week of classes, according to a report published Friday by a group of University researchers.
The COVID-19 Modeling...
Researchers at the University have continued work on multiple projects related to COVID-19, all attempting to eventually reduce the virus’s harmful effects as the number of cases in Texas increases.
The...
Texas Cafeteria, an informal collaboration between student organizations, has allowed student leaders to share resources and unite behind social movements amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group...
Some students are still deciding whether to live in on-campus residence halls as the University plans to have in-person classes during the fall semester while COVID-19 cases continue to increase in Texas.
Over...
Students have started fundraising and organizing protests to support the Black Lives Matter movement from across the state. After classes transitioned online due to COVID-19 concerns, some students moved...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Texas, nutrition junior Dalia Nouraldeen would regularly visit her doctor to manage Crohn’s disease, a chronic illness that causes inflammation in her intestines....
The co-founder of Alamo Drafthouse discussed his career Tuesday as part of the Entrepreneurship Live! series hosted by the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship.
Tim League, the co-founder and CEO...
The College of Natural Sciences Career Services hosted a panel Tuesday of current UT students and alumni on health care career opportunities that only require a bachelor’s degree.
The event, “How...
In an effort to promote heart-healthy eating habits, University Housing and Dining hosted a Mediterranean Dinner event at Jester Second Floor Dining and Kinsolving Dining on Thursday evening.
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The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection displayed the origins of the UT Center for Mexican American Studies on Thursday at the exhibit “CMAS at 50: A Legacy of Scholarship, Teaching, and...
A Latina/Latino studies professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discussed the ethnically ambiguous representation of Latinidad in Disney films and shows in a Thursday lecture at the...
