Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, Since March, we’ve witnessed COVID-19 spreading throughout the globe, claiming more than 300,000 lives in the U.S. and 1.6 million worldwide to date. Dangerously high spikes have pushed ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, For many of us, this may be an especially difficult time. In Central Texas, fall feels like it’s finally arrived, courses are winding down, and now is when most of us would make plans to travel for the ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, I wanted to let you know that in addition to last week’s announcement about extended research shift hours and Animal Resources Center services, the Fall 2020 Planning Executive Committee has decided ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, The Fall 2020 Planning Executive Committee and university health experts continue to monitor COVID-19 conditions on campus. Infection rates, particularly among faculty and staff, remain ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, Thank you for your continued patience as we finalized a plan to help undergraduate students return to on-campus research this semester. As I mentioned in my email to you on September 18, their ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, Two of UT’s core values are Learning and Discovery, which is why so many of you have been asking, understandably, if and when the university would be able to allow undergraduates ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, In my email to you at the start of the semester, I mentioned that both the Research Working Group and Health Working Group were developing a plan to allow some forms of human subjects research to ...

Dear PI Colleagues, This week, we’ve begun to see an increase in positive COVID-19 cases within our undergraduate student population. This is concerning but not unexpected. That said, expected or not, there’s nothing easy about COVID-19 ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, As a new academic year begins, I want to thank you sincerely for your patience, cooperation, and hard work these past months. Each of you has had to adapt to unforeseen constraints since the pandemic ...

Dear PI Colleagues, We’re only two weeks away from the start of the fall semester, which seems both impossible and long overdue. The spring and summer were filled with many unknowns, and now new questions will arise about how to keep ourselves ...