Branding
June 5, 2024
UT Health San Antonio’s Office of Marketing, Communications and Media does not handle death notices of current or former employees. A brief story for publication in the university’s internal newsletter, This Week, or the university’s external news source, Newsroom, is limited to longstanding executive leadership — deans, vice presidents, members of the executive committee — whose impact across the university was […]
June 5, 2024
Spell out numbers zero through nine in text. Use numerals for numbers 10 and higher. For amounts in the millions, billions and trillions, use a figure-word combination: 1 million people, $2 billion. For large numbers, do not use more than two numerals beyond the decimimal point. $1.7 million, 3.75 million people. Use .5 to indicate […]
June 5, 2024
Always referred to in this terminology: the only National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center in Central and South Texas. Example: The Mays Cancer Center was named a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center.
June 5, 2024
Cloud-based information system at the UT Health San Antonio San Antonio Mays Cancer Center, home to MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Medical Arts and Research Center. No space between My and Chart, C is capped.
June 5, 2024
Develops collaborative efforts within the resources of the military system in San Antonio in combination with the articulated strengths of the health science center. The Military Health Institute is an official institute of UT Health San Antonio. Never MHI in running copy. Use “the institute” on second reference.
June 5, 2024
Naming convention depends on usage. For anything related to patients or patient care ONLY: Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. Second reference: Mays Cancer Center All other references (academic, research): Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio or Mays Cancer Center at UT Health […]
June 5, 2024
On first reference, use the full name: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine. After that, the Long School of Medicine or the medical school.
June 5, 2024
Avoid using web addresses in body text. Linking is more concise and links offer a powerful way to enhance the reader’s experience. Use links to offer extra information that the reader can seek out, as opposed to bulking up an article with information that may not be specific to the point of the content at […]
June 5, 2024
The UT Health San Antonio Regional Campus at Laredo is now the UT Education and Research Center in Laredo.
June 5, 2024
Use the formal names of each institute and center on first reference. Spell out “and” instead of using the ampersand in all running copy. For instance, it is the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases. See departments, divisions, centers, institutes and schools. […]