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 ...

Dear PI Colleagues, I’m pleased to let you know that Mary Steinhardt will be UT’s next research integrity officer (RIO), effective Sept. 1, 2020. The research integrity officer is responsible for addressing all allegations of research misconduct while ensuring ...

Dear PI Colleagues, We’re getting closer to the start of the fall semester, and I want to send a few important updates your way. This will be most relevant to those of you working or conducting research on campus. Proactive Community Testing ...

Dear PI Colleagues, We want to make you aware of an ongoing and evolving national situation that may affect some members of our research community. The FBI notified us last week that, due to the recent closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Last week, I shared some testing updates with you and let you know that on-campus research activities will remain at Research Level 3 (ultralow density). This is still the case, but with one new and important modification ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Graduate Students, and Postdocs, Along with the Fall 2020 Planning Executive Committee, I continue to closely monitor the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Travis County. At present, on-campus research activities will ...