Regardless of vaccination status, all employees coming to campus in any capacity for the fall 2021 semester must provide a viral test (antigen test or nucleic acid amplification test such as a PCR) by Wednesday, Sept. 8. Similarly, these testing protocols apply to all students living on or coming to campus in any capacity.

UTA has a number of free on-campus testing options that meet the required criteria. The results will be automatically reported to UTA.

Off-campus testing results will be accepted, but you will not be reimbursed for costs. You must upload the results to a digital portal that will be made available soon. Negative results from tests conducted more than 72 hours before the portal is made available will not be accepted.

Please continue to monitor your UTA email and the UTA COVID‑19 Information website for updates.

UTA has partnered with Walmart to establish on-campus COVID‑19 vaccination clinics open to all employees and students.

The clinics are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays, Aug. 18, 25, and Sept. 15, in the exercise rooms of the Maverick Activities Center.

The vaccine is free regardless of insurance status. Each vaccine clinic will operate on a walk-in-only basis.

UTA public health experts Erin Carlson and Rebecca Garner share why vaccines are imperative for the health and safety of the Maverick community.

The Office of Facilities Management has scheduled an electrical outage from 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, to about 2 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 21. Buildings affected include CAPPA (Architecture), Engineering Lab, Fine Arts, Earth & Environmental Sciences (Geoscience), Nanofab, Nedderman Hall, and Woolf Hall.

Available emergency back-up generators in these buildings will be maintained throughout this outage to power crucial services.

Save any computer work or data in progress during the outage. Additionally, to prevent any possible damage, turn off all electronic equipment including computers, scanners, and copiers prior to this outage. These devices do not need to be unplugged.

Anyone having questions or concerns, or needing emergency power to support research, should contact either Toby Buhrkuhl at 972-832-1490 or Jeff Johnson at 817-798-8456.

Faculty, staff, and students who conduct human-subject research or would like to know more about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process are invited to the virtual IRB Mini Conference 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Aug. 31. Hosted by the Office of Regulatory Services, this event will cover informed consent, recruitment of subjects, submissions to the IRB, and protecting human subject data. Registration is now open.

The Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence encourages faculty members to apply for three fellows programs.

• Service Learning Faculty Fellows Program—Fellows explore service-learning foundations, effective teaching practices, and research projects within service learning. For more information, contact Susan Dequeant at dequeant@uta.edu.
• Maverick Advantage Faculty Engagement Faculty Fellows Program—Fellows collaborate to learn how to integrate one of the five Maverick Advantage distinguishing activities into their courses. For more information, contact Susan Dequeant at dequeant@uta.edu or Nali Kim at nlkim@uta.edu.
• Professional Learning Community Program/Collaborate UTA—Faculty from across campus meet to develop strategies to enhance and assess teamwork in their courses. For more information, contact Andrew Clark at amclark@uta.edu.