By David Schnyer Scientists working to understand how lifestyle, environmental exposures, and family history contribute to health and wellbeing are fundamentally interested in causal links. Catch that word “causal”? That means we want to understand when one thing causes something else to happen. Let’s take something we all believe to…

By Christine Julien As a computing researcher, I have spent the past two decades developing software and devices that allow humans to use technology to interact with their physical world and the people around them. …

By Mary Huber Karen Johnson, profesora titular de la Escuela de Enfermería e investigadora de Whole Communities–Whole Health, recuerda haber administrado su primera vacuna contra la COVID‑19 y la descarga de adrenalina que la invadió. Como enfermera de salud pública, había estado esperando su oportunidad de pasar a la primera…

By Mary Huber El nitrógeno y el oxígeno constituyen el 99 % del aire que respiramos, pero eso no es todo lo que da vueltas a nuestro alrededor mientras transcurre nuestro día. …

UT takes air quality investigation out of the lab and onto the road By Mary Huber Lee esta historia en español. Nitrogen and oxygen make up 99% of the air we breathe, but that’s not all that’s swirling around us as we go about our day. Other compounds like carbon…

Lee esta historia en español. Karen Johnson, an associate professor in the School of Nursing and Whole Communities–Whole Health researcher, remembers administering her first COVID-19 vaccine — and the rush of adrenaline that came over her. A public health nurse, she’d been waiting for her chance to step up to…

By: Sheri L. Burson To protect ourselves and others during the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have had to shift our everyday lives to our homes. This has led to a steep drop in the amount of physical activity our kids are getting. Prior to the pandemic, few U.S. children…

By Mary Huber Our dirty, smelly wastewater could hold something very valuable: the key to tracking COVID-19 hot spots in Austin before diagnostic testing is able to identify outbreaks. The novel coronavirus is a fecally shed virus, which means its signature shows up in our waste. …

By Frances Champagne In January 2020, I began my year as chair of Whole Communities–Whole Health. The world was a very different place. We were in the midst of preparing for a very ambitious faculty hiring plan. Our community engagement efforts were maturing and helping support a shared understanding of…