Messages from the
Vice President for Research
June 3, 2020
Shared: Update — University Email Policy
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 ...
May 29, 2020
Friday Updates About Research Restart
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 ...
May 21, 2020
Research Restart
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 ...
May 15, 2020
Research Administrator Awards: Nominate a Colleague!
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 ...
May 1, 2020
Leadership Transition and COVID-19 Research
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 ...
April 28, 2020
Research Restart Update
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 ...
April 16, 2020
COVID-19 and Planning Process for Resuming On-campus Research
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 ...
March 23, 2020
Pause in Laboratory Research Activities
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 ...
March 17, 2020
Update: COVID-19 and Research
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 ...
March 15, 2020
Lab and Core Operations and Human Subject Research
I know that the uncertainties around laboratory and human subject research are layered onto the already stressful uncertainties we all face during the current outbreak. You have a very difficult task before ...