Tagged - COVID-19

Students reflect on UR’s fall reopening plans

Since the fall semester kicked off on Wednesday, the Rochesterian’s confidence in the University’s reopening plans seems to be paying off so far. 

Dissatisfied by administration’s reopening process, UR faculty launch AAUP chapter

72 UR faculty members frustrated with administrations’ actions surrounding reopening have launched a chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

The FOMO of an online semester

In this “semester like never before,” the key is to get creative.

We are still in a pandemic

We always think it can’t happen to us, until it does. We are not immune.

Research at Rochester: Through texts and city ruins, Remus digs up history

You might find her 10,000 feet in the air, towering over Chavín de Huántar, exploring through Ghana, or mingling with shopkeepers in our Public Market.

All of Rochester is depending on all of us

There is a special kind of irony in a student receiving the privilege of a higher education transmitting a deadly disease to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation.

How a transnasal lobotomy made me reevaluate my life

What was supposed to be a brief nasal swab scrambled my brain like an ostrich egg. I immediately blacked out for 18 hours. I think.

I have taken the Flag Lounge into my own hands

There were 163 flags hanging in the lounge, each one three by five feet. That’s a lot to just "hide." Where are they now?

Varsity football to become scooter club due to pandemic

Maybe a cavalry charge would be a good analogy? Either way, they’re zooming around campus on scooters and having a blast doing it. 

Study shows food provides protection from COVID-19

“Because social distancing is required at all times, and I can’t have any visitors, the news that food prevents coronavirus spread has completely saved my social life,”