MavWire – Wednesday, November 4, 2020 – The University of Texas at Arlington

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Get a Flu Shot This Year. The best way to avoid getting the flu is to get a flu shot every year. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Flu shots available Monday

Make your appointment for a flu shot noon-2:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the Wetsel Service Center. The vaccine is free with UT Select and UT Connect membership. With no insurance, the shot is $20.

Faculty Senate open forum

The Faculty Senate will hold an open faculty forum noon-2 p.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 4, to follow up on ideas raised in the State of the University address.

Trinity parking lot

The Trinity Hall project will need to relocate the Trinity South fencing into the parking lot on Friday, Nov. 6, in order to start preparing the drive lane. Later, contractor parking will move, allowing for more faculty/staff slots.

Six sociology student worked as election clerks in east Arlington

Students volunteer for election

Sociology graduate student Desiree Alvarez served as an election judge at an east Arlington voting site and personally recruited five fellow sociology students to serve with her as election clerks.

Graphic of four people expressing free speech.

Free to be and disagree

UTA has a commitment to free speech and an open exchange of ideas. Read suggestions on how to respond when you disagree with messages expressed in free speech exercised on campus.

Travel reimbursement changes

The Office of Procurement and Payment Services updated items regarding procedure BF-PGS-PR8: Reimbursements and Payments Other Than for Travel and Purchase Order.

Electrical outage planned for Woolf Hall

The Office of Facilities Management has scheduled an electrical outage for Woolf Hall from 10:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, to no later than 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. Available emergency back-up generators in these buildings will be maintained throughout this outage to power crucial services.

Save any work or data in progress before 10:30 p.m. Friday to prevent possible data loss.

Questions or special needs? Call Toby Buhrkuhl at 972-832-1490 or Jeff Johnson at 817-798-8456.

Coming Up

Thursday, November 5

Flu shots available Monday

Faculty Senate open forum

Trinity parking lot

Students volunteer for election

Free to be and disagree

Travel reimbursement changes

Electrical outage planned for Woolf Hall

Center for Mexican American Studies: Jazmina Barrera

Mavember: Toiletry Donation Drive

Faculty Recital: Timothy Angel, violin

First-Generation Celebration Series

UTA Volleyball vs. Louisiana

Student Recital: Trenton Hall, voice

Maverick Theatre: 'Songs for a New World'

TEDxUTA 2020

Student Recital: England Nguyen, trombone

Student Recital: Lane Barrett, percussion

Graduate Recital: Nick Barnaby, bass

Hermanns Lecture Series: Making and Design Thinking as Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Approaches

UTA Startup Con & Global Entrepreneurship Week

Women's Faculty and Staff Network

Handshake Supervisor Training

Introduction to QGIS