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Alfred W. Harris Faculty-Alumni Center
Better known as the Faculty Club, the Faculty-Alumni Center is located on the fourth floor of the Florence Building (E) on the South Campus. A lunch buffet is served Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on-campus catering can be provided. Meeting rooms are available for small or large business gatherings, dinner parties, or social functions, and a bar area overlooks the Plaza. For membership information, call 214-648-2653.
Campus Security
Wear your ID Badge at all times, with your photo clearly visible, to help increase security on campus. Your ID card also allows you to check out items from the library and will allow access to restricted areas, such as the member facilities at the Bryan Williams, M.D. Student Center, campus parking lots/garages, and animal rooms to which you have been granted access.
University Police Department
The UT Southwestern Medical Center Police Department is the law enforcement agency that provides security, enforces state and local laws, and takes accident, offense, and incident reports for the UT Southwestern campus. Visit the University Police website to learn about crime prevention, campus crime statistics, and services.
Phone numbers:
On-Campus Emergency: 911
Off-Campus Emergency or from cell phone: 214-648-8911
Non-Emergency: 214-648-8311
Call Boxes
Emergency Call Boxes are located in most of the garages and throughout the campus. The boxes have a blue light to assist you in locating it should you need assistance from the Police Department. The boxes are marked "Emergency" in large lettering.
Childcare
UT Southwestern offers stimulating, high quality care for children aged six weeks through kindergarten at two centers on campus. For information about other childcare and senior care options, visit Child Care/Education and Senior Care.
Core Facilities for Conducting Research
Link to listing of more than 30 Core Facilities on campus and these Core Facilities not listed on the website:
Employee Benefits
Employees learn about their benefits through customized group and individual education sessions, at which the unique aspects of the benefits available for employees of the State and institutions of higher education in Texas are discussed.
Participation in a retirement program through the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) is mandatory for regular employees. Faculty members and postdoctoral scholars paid a salary alternatively may participate in the Optional Retirement Program (ORP). The choice must be made within 30 days of employment or the plan selection will default to TRS. In addition to the TRS or ORP Retirement plans, all employees may participate in the UTSaver TSA 403(b) and/or the UTSaver DCP 457(b) retirement programs.
Learn more about these plans and other Human Resources programs:
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Benefits Quick Reference
- Teacher Retirement System
- Optional Retirement Program
- Voluntary Retirement Programs
- Employee Discount Program
- Employee Assistance Program
Hiring/Interviewing
- Conducting an Effective Interview, 47-minute video
- Running a Research Lab, the art and science of matching skill sets to jobs; 62-minute video
- Staffing the Lab, a guide from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Information Resources
The mission of Information Resources is to support UT Southwestern Medical Center, including its Hospitals and Clinics, by providing computing, networking, audiovisual, voice and data telecommunication, and television services to all client organizations and individuals in a timely and reliable fashion.
Visit Information Resources to learn about specific services, including:
- Hardware
- Information Security
- Network
- Phones
- Software and Applications
- Training
- Web Browsers
as well as special information for students and postdocs. For quick reference, use the Information Resources A-Z Index.
Living in the Dallas Area
- Cost of Living Calculator
- Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Dallas Life (www.utsouthwestern.edu/life-at/dallas-life/)
- Dallas Neighborhood Guide
- Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Guide Live (arts, entertainment, and restaurants)
- North Texas Commission
- Public Schools
- Private Schools
- Wikipedia: Dallas TX
Purchasing
The Supply Chain Management is charged with the responsibility of acquiring goods, services, and equipment to support research, education, and administration for the best value. Detailed information and help should be sought from your departmental administrative support team. Note that multiple bids are required for equipment or supplies costing more than $5,000; an exception can be considered for sole source/brand purchase by completion of form 309, Justification for Proprietary Purchase.
Research
UT Southwestern aims to remain at the forefront of biomedical research. The Research Administration Office assists investigators in fulfilling their responsibility of managing research projects correctly and carefully. UT Southwestern provides an array of services to support research projects, including core facilities.
- Clinical Trials
- Funding for New Investigators
- Funding Resources
- Grants.gov
- Labs
- NIH New Investigators Program
- Office for Technology Development
- Research (Internet)
- Research (Intranet)
- Research Administration Policies and Procedures
- Research Administration Technical Support Team
- Research Compliance
- Research Grants and Contracts
- What You Should Know about Animal Research and the IACUC at UT Southwestern
- What You Should Know about Human Research and the IRB
Transportation
Facilities Management provides shuttle services between campuses, hospitals, and clinical buildings. The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) operates a network of buses and light rail trains. The Trinity Railway Express Trinity Railway Express (TRE), which is a commuter train connecting Dallas and Fort Worth has a stop behind Parkland Hospital/Children’s Medical Center, down a stairway from Medical Center Drive. UT Southwestern subsidizes DART Passes for employees, providing a great savings for employees and students.
Dallas also has a system of recommended bike routes on city streets. You can pay for a map of bike routes at City Hall or have one mailed to you.
Web Resources for Faculty
A comprehensive listing of links to useful information is available at Web Resources in the left navigation of the Faculty Corner website. You are encouraged to bookmark the Web Resources page, which links to information about these topics:
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Your Own Lab Website
UT Southwestern has recently launched a new online community dedicated to research labs (http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/). Accessible from both utsouthwestern.edu and MyUTSW, the new website takes advantage of the strength of the utsouthwestern.edu URL to increase Google rankings for every lab website housed within.
Lab websites can now be quickly found either by Google search or through the onsite alphabetical browser and search functions. With the ability to find and see all UT Southwestern lab websites, potential students and postdocs can more readily find research that appeals to them. As a result, this community plays a key role in UT Southwestern’s recruitment efforts.
There is no cost to your lab to create a website within the Labs community. In addition, training is available if you would like to maintain your own lab website(s). The training course is also free.
Faculty and/or representatives from labs who do not currently have a lab website are invited to contact the web content team by emailing web@utsouthwestern.edu.
