Dear PI Colleagues, Many of you are returning to your labs and research spaces this week, and I wanted to send a note letting you know, again, how much I appreciate your patience as the university finalizes all the details of a gradual re-opening plan ...

Dear Colleagues, If you already use a UT Austin email address for University business, please disregard this message. If you use a non-UT email address, please take the time to read this message as this change in our email policy will impact you. I want to ...

Dear PI Colleagues, Please let me begin by saying that I know how difficult things have been for you and your teams these past two months. I appreciate your remarkable cooperation and effort in pausing research activities in March. I know the pause ...

Dear PI Colleagues, After several weeks of careful planning with your associate deans for research (ADRs), and with critical insight from UT health experts and the university-wide COVID-19 Recovery Executive Committee, I am pleased to announce a ...

Dear Colleagues, We are seeking your nominations for the fourth annual Research Administrator Awards to recognize two University Staff in the field of research administration. A research administrator supports principal investigators in achieving ...

Dear PI Colleagues: These past several weeks have brought waves of unexpected news — from stay-at-home orders and a laboratory research pause to hearing that both President Fenves and Provost McInnis would be leaving UT. I know how difficult ...

Dear PI Colleagues: Yesterday afternoon, Governor Abbott announced initial plans for select Texas businesses to re-open beginning May 1. With the Governor's announcement, and the scheduled expiration of the City of Austin's Stay Home ...

Dear PI Colleagues: I know that all of you are facing unprecedented personal and professional challenges as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, I am acutely aware of the painful impact that the pause in non-essential research ...

Dear PI Colleagues: We know that this is a trying time for all of you and regret extremely that circumstances require an additional painful restriction of research activity. Effective Tuesday March 24 at 5 PM, you must pause all laboratory research ...

Dear PI Colleagues: With President Fenves’ announcement that undergraduates will not be returning to campus, we are updating a few of the items that were in our memo of Sunday, March 15. At the moment, the policies in that memo all remain in effect ...