Kevin is a journalism senior with a minor in health communications from Houston, Texas. He is currently the associate managing editor, but has previously reported for news covering breaking news, science/research and COVID-19 news. He is also a reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune. Does he ever sleep?
Kevin Vu, Associate Managing Editor
• November 30, 2023
Finally, I’m free.
I remember telling myself:
“I’m quitting the Texan after my third semester as a senior news reporter.”
That turned to: “I’m quitting the Texan after I become news...
Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 11 de septiembre por Morgan Severson y Kevin Vu y fue traducido al español por Hannah Garza.
Los asesores de la Casa Blanca celebraron...
White House advisors held a campus press briefing on Sept. 25, inviting student publications across the country, including The Daily Texan, to share the Biden administration’s plan to address college...
What was previously thought to be liquid water detected under Mars’ ice-covered south pole is most likely volcanic terrain, according to a study published Jan. 24 led by a researcher at UT.
Scientists...
The Dell Medical School at UT-Austin launched the Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy on Dec. 16 — the first center in Texas to conduct clinical research on psychedelic drugs as mental health...
As COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant rapidly increase throughout Texas, UT will have faculty teach remotely for the first two weeks of the semester and return in person by Jan. 31, according...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the December 2 broadsheet.
The Linguistic Society of America elected a UT professor as its president for the first time since 1973, for a one-year term...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the November 2 flipbook.
UT researchers are working to create an intervention program for young adults with breast cancer to address unmet needs and issues.
Principal...
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the October 19 flipbook.
UT researchers identified a COVID-19 antibody that can prevent viral infection against COVID-19 and its current variants.
UT...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 19 flipbook.
Over 25 UT students gathered around the Tejas Club house Thursday evening protesting the spirit organization’s protection...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 12 flipbook.
Content warning: antisemitism
When Rachel Schlesinger and her roommates saw that a racist group hung an antisemitic...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 9 flipbook.
At night, a lizard hunts for cockroaches inside the halls of UT’s Skeleton Preparation Facility.
Kenneth Bader,...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 15 flipbook.
Researchers at UT are developing a robotic endoscope that allows doctors to “feel” cancer tumors, which could help doctors...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 11 flipbook.
Trigger Warning: suicide
UT-Austin and UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are studying intervention methods to determine...
University researchers, along with others from the University of Arizona, University of Houston and various Mexican institutions, worked together using laser mapping data to uncover hundreds of sites dating back from about 1,050 B.C. to 400 B.C.
The group of protesters demanded all Tejas members resign from positions of power in official UT organizations and for all University organizations to dissociate socially and professionally from Tejas.
For the next five years, as part of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers from UT, the University of California San Diego and Stanford University will look into and devise solutions for browsers attacked by hackers with malicious intent.
Three UT-Austin faculty members were selected as co-editors of one of the premier Asian Studies journals in the world beginning Oct. 1.
Founded in 1967, Modern Asian Studies publishes six issues per...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 8th flipbook.
Doctors may be able to monitor patients’ pneumonia symptoms from their homes for the first time as UT researchers...
Even though thousands of people attended ACL over its two weekends at the beginning of October, Austin health officials said 36 COVID-19 cases were attributed to the festival.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 24th flipbook.
UT engineers prototyped the first-ever portable disease diagnosis machine that could help medical professionals quickly...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 21 flipbook.
Rachel Sidopulos worked for the University for 14 years until she had to make the tough decision to quit after her...
Professors say they will continue to enforce seating charts as part of contact tracing efforts even though the University is scaling back exposure notifications.
University Health Services announced...
Historically Black higher education administrators spoke Saturday morning during the Texas Tribune Festival about the effects of the pandemic and racial unrest on historically Black colleges and universities
The...
Editor's Note: This first appeared in the September 17 flipbook issue.
As the University plans to shift most classes back in person next week, some UT professors still plan to offer hybrid models.
Some...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 14 flipbook.
On her way home for Labor Day weekend, mathematics freshman Maya Niyogi answered a call from an unknown number only...
Editor's note: This story first appeared as part of the September 8 flipbook.
The University announced Friday that it will provide the largest investment in graduate student education of about nearly...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 3 flipbook.
After the Cockrell School of Engineering teamed up with the Red Cross to distribute a device that creates low-cost menstrual...
In space thousands of natural and human-made objects float around and collide with one another, preventing satellites and rockets from functioning correctly. Researchers from UT, the Massachusetts Institute...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the August 31 flipbook.
UT-Austin residence halls have reached 100% capacity with 7,400 students living across the 14 residence halls amid Stage...
About two dozen students protested for the removal of “The Eyes of Texas” as UT’s alma mater at Tuesday night’s Gone to Texas event welcoming new students.
The protesters stood next to the Longhorn...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the August 23 flipbook.
University Housing and Dining has added Jester City Limits to its unlimited meal plan program over the summer, turning the...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as a part of the August 23 flipbook.
Over 10,000 UT students could potentially contract COVID-19 during the fall semester according to an Aug. 11 report published...
Nasal and saliva COVID-19 tests through UT’s Proactive Community Testing program are completely booked for Tuesday, PCT program director Jessica Klima said.
The University announced last Monday that...
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated once more details become available.
Austin and Travis County officials amended an order Friday requiring masks in public schools, including...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the August 2 flipbook.
UT researchers identified six practices that can be used by public transit agencies to advance transportation equity, according...
UT researchers and doctors are beginning a three-year study on how to preserve important brain functions in adolescents with epilepsy that are in need of brain surgery.
The study is looking at ways...
Camp Texas, a retreat for incoming students, announced the cancelation of all four camp sessions due to positive COVID-19 cases amongst Camp Buckner staff Saturday. The announcement comes less than two...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the July 20 flipbook.
The newly proposed Austin city budget includes the largest Austin Police Department budget yet, despite cuts and calls from...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the July 12 flipbook.
As heat waves break records across the nation, some Austinites are becoming more vulnerable to the risks of the extreme temperatures...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the July 6 flipbook.
Texas will send nearly $100 million in federal COVID-19 relief money to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, with...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the July 6 flipbook.
When UT students Siya and Simon, who have been a couple since 2019, dealt COVID-19 over the last year, they found a few effective...
Students could likely contract a new and more infectious variant of COVID-19 if they are unvaccinated, a UT professor who has been tracking COVID-19 variants said.
The World Health Organization reported...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the June 22 flipbook.
When bilingual people lose the ability to speak due to brain damage from a stroke or head injury, deciding which language...
UT-Austin researchers found differences in how correct and incorrect memories are activated in the brain through watching rats in a maze. The study, published June 7, could help researchers understand...
UT faculty are examining the causes and effects of the 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico through a series of studies and are calling for better preparation for future storms intensified by climate change...
UT will return to 100% occupancy in classrooms and labs for the fall semester with the help of vaccinations and continued testing, according to an email from internal communications to the UT community...
UT-Austin’s COVID-19 Modeling Consortium developed a calculation for the number of isolation beds the city would need for people experiencing homelessness in an epidemic through a study published May...
The University, along with the rest of the country, is seeing a decrease in demand for the COVID-19 vaccine, with UT vaccine allocations dropping by more than half since March 22, according to state health...
UT student organization Longhorn Racing displayed the new generation of their solar car, the first new design in nine years, at their virtual annual showcase April 24.
Dell Children’s Medical Center will open a new comprehensive fetal care center May 3 that will be the only dedicated center in Central Texas for treating unborn children with conditions such as twin-to-twin...
The UT System has received equipment from the Department of Defense for 10 years through the 1033 Program, which gives leftover equipment to law enforcement.
UT researchers will begin studies to identify and answer questions about a rare heart defect that can trigger cardiac death during exercise or sports in young people next week. The disease has put families...
The School of Nursing launched two vaccination delivery programs in March that provide vaccines to underserved Austin communities.
The two programs, Vaccine Administration Mobile Operations (VAMOS)...
The University’s Center for Taiwan Studies, founded last month, will provide nearly $1 million through a five-year grant to fund educational opportunities focused on Taiwanese study.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UT-Austin collaborated in a March 25 study to increase the capabilities of lithium-ion batteries, which are often used in portable devices such...
UT began administering COVID-19 vaccines to all Texas adults on Mar. 29 in accordance with new state guidelines, but is still prioritizing Texans that were eligible under previous vaccination phases.
A College of Pharmacy research center will receive funding to increase the accessibility of biosimilar drugs for cancer treatments from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Oncology Research Program and Pfizer Inc.
Trigger Warning: This story contains discussion of anti-Asian racism and violence.
UT Chinese international students and alums gathered virtually Saturday night to discuss Asian hate in the United States...
UT Health Austin will need more clinical volunteers to help with COVID-19 vaccination efforts since Texas announced all adults will be eligible to receive the vaccine starting Monday.
Stephanie Morgan,...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 23 issue of The Daily Texan.
The Cockrell School of Engineering opened a new center to focus on advancing additive manufacturing, also known...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 12 issue of The Daily Texan.
Spring 2020
Nearly one year ago, UT canceled classes and closed operations on March 13, 2020....
UT substance use initiative SHIFT published an open letter to the UT community last Sunday speaking on a drug-trafficking incident that occurred in December 2020, when 13 current and former UT-Austin students...
Hundreds lined up outside Gregory Gym on Monday after thousands of individuals who do not qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine made an appointment after a scheduling link was unofficially spread.
UT Health...
UT researchers, in collaboration with experts around the world, discovered asteroid dust within a crater in the Yucatán Peninsula that links the extinction of 75% of life on Earth, including the...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 23 print edition.
Despite this week’s higher temperatures, Austin is still reeling from the effects of last week’s...
Researchers at the Dell Children’s Medical Center are set to investigate a disease found in children caused by COVID-19 through a five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Multisystem...
A UT psychology study published on Feb. 16 found that the changes in a person’s language on social media before and after a breakup can expose their emotional and logical thinking.
Psychology...
Editor’s Note: This story was updated regularly until Sunday, February 22. Information within this story may no longer be up to date.
The Daily Texan is tracking press briefings held by city...
Over 60 students and staff members who were not in the 1A or 1B group received a dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine Sunday to prevent them from being wasted, University Spokesperson J.B. Bird said.
On...
Editor’s Note: This story was updated regularly until Sunday, February 22. Information within this story may no longer be up to date.
Students living off campus continue to face power and...
Associate dance professor Gesel Mason received a grant of just under $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in December, which will support her ongoing project to preserve the works and...
UT researchers published a Jan. 27 analysis on the DNA sequence of switchgrass, a plant which could be a promising, environmentally-friendly fuel source that does not emit carbon dioxide into the air.
UT...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 2 print edition.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin published a study Jan. 28 explaining how remdesivir,...
UT-Austin students and faculty will lead two out of five teams participating in NASA’s University Leadership Initiative, which provides funding for university research teams to work on projects for...
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...
UT released its first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to members of the UT community last month and will continue the effort to vaccinate the UT population as new groups become eligible.
Last...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the leading member of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force, received the Ken...
A new dashboard from the UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium will allow families and school officials to estimate the probability of an infected case emerging at schools across the United States on a weekly...
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...
The United States Department of Energy announced an $18 million grant to support and expand the capabilities of their lasers in facilities across the U.S. in late October, and UT-Austin will receive $4.1...
Government junior Kara Adamcik said she dropped out halfway through the semester because of problems around her physical and mental well-being.
“I wasn’t taking care of myself because I...
Frontera, a supercomputer at UT’s Texas Advanced Computing Center, is helping researchers simulate storm surges to predict weather emergencies and assist with potential weather-related evacuations...
UT will allow study abroad programs to take place in the spring semester, according to Education Abroad.
Heather Thompson, director of Education Abroad, said Texas Global will continue to monitor the...
While some prospective graduate students deferred their admissions to graduate programs this fall due to COVID-19, others have used the pandemic as a way to find new programs to gain more expertise.
Gregorio...
A technology company donated high-performance computing equipment to two UT labs in the College of Natural Sciences to support the labs’ COVID-19 research.
Advanced Micro Devices, an American...
