Aaron Carroll plans for on-departure, on-arrival COVID-19 testing
Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, discussed plans for on-departure and on-arrival testing during his weekly COVID-19 webinar Wednesday.
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Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, discussed plans for on-departure and on-arrival testing during his weekly COVID-19 webinar Wednesday.
In a Wednesday COVID-19 webinar, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said IU will use Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall as its location for required flu shots.
The Bloomington Faculty Council presented updates from the employee benefits committee, voted on a resolution on the use of Online Course Questionnaire data from fall 2020 and discussed admissions reports from 2020 during Tuesday’s virtual meeting.
The front windows of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house look over cars on Woodlawn Avenue and 10th Street, students still walking across campus to in-person classes and the expanse of the arboretum.
The IU Board of Trustees voted 8-1 Friday to rename the sites on IU-Bloomington’s campus honoring former IU president David Starr Jordan.
Three greek organizations — Sigma Phi Epsilon, Omega Phi Beta and Lambda Sigma Upsilon — were given cease and desist orders effective Wednesday.
The oncoming cold weather brings not only flu season, but also extra challenges because it will overlap with the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett Saturday to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
When IU senior Sam Reitenour learned that David Starr Jordan’s name would be removed from campus last week his first feeling was one of relief, and then disappointment.
IU President Michael McRobbie is recommending the removal of former IU President David Starr Jordan’s name from Jordan Hall, the Jordan Avenue parking garage and Bloomington’s Jordan River at the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting on Oct. 1 and 2, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said.
One IU student was hospitalized for COVID-19, said Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, in the weekly “Ask Aaron” webinar on Wednesday.
The Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter at IU has been given a cease and desist order, according to IU spokesperson Chuck Carney.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, colleges and universities have been forced to alter not only their modes of instruction, but also their general business and funding practices. Because the pandemic has had negative financial effects globally, where the financial burden should lie remains a topic of debate.
IU’s December 2020 graduation ceremony, which was opened for both spring and fall 2020 graduates, will be virtual, IU said in an email. The university’s first-ever virtual commencement ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. on December 19 at a link that will be sent to graduates at a later date.
IU will use new on-campus labs to facilitate all of its mitigation testing efforts as early as mid-October, replacing Vault Health, the company located in New Jersey currently processing the university’s mitigation saliva tests.
Because CDC guidelines didn’t recommend COVID-19 entry testing for faculty and students as of June, IU made decisions about on-arrival testing at its own discretion.
Megan Miller is the deputy director for contact tracing of the IU COVID-19 Medical Response Team , which means she oversees contact tracing operations on all IU campuses.
The Monroe County Health Department did not state plans in a Thursday phone interview to enforce IU’s recommendation to close greek houses as COVID-19 cases continue to rise.
IU is proposing that $235 million be appropriated from Indiana’s state government to finance various construction projects as part of a state budget proposal for 2021.
After three-fourths of greek houses were directed to quarantine by the Monroe County Health Department during the last week, IU recommended Thursday all 40 houses close. The president of Phi Kappa Tau, a house that has not been quarantined, said IU’s policy is unfair to their fraternity.