Email notifications have been delivered to the following categories of University community members letting them know that URMC Employee Health was able to schedule them for a COVID-19 vaccination:
Faculty, staff and matriculated students 65 years and older
Warner School and Eastman School students who are working in preschool-grade 12 settings (students registered for clinical experiences, e.g., practica, internships, field experiences, student teaching, or relevant EDF courses in teaching, counseling, and administration)
Individuals who accepted these appointments must sign an attestation of their eligibility and show their University ID. The clinics for these groups have been completed—for the first dose—and the registration link contained in these emails has expired; subsequent notifications sent to these groups will include new registration instructions.
As vaccine supplies allow, additional slots will be made available more broadly for in-person instructional faculty, who are also approved within the current New York State eligibility designations. Invitations for this expanded group will be delivered through University email. More information is posted here.
Since Friday’s notice in @Rochester, there are five new cases of COVID-19 to report: one River Campus student and two employees; and two Medical Campus students. Please note that the University’s COVID-19 Dashboard is updated daily. Whenever a new case is known, the contact-tracing process begins immediately with confirmed exposures being contacted and required to quarantine.
It’s also extremely important for the health of the University community that individuals continue to adhere to the face masking and social distancing protocols. Even as some individuals are now receiving their first or second dose of the vaccine, these practices to prevent the transmission of the virus cannot be relaxed.
If you think you’re experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms, it’s important to report them through Dr. Chat Bot immediately. Even if you think your symptoms might be something else—like a cold, seasonal congestion, or allergies—it’s still important to tell University health professionals and contact tracers what you’re experiencing.
UR Medicine Launches COVID-19 Vaccination Centers for Patients
UR Medicine began phoning patients Sunday in randomized order, offering appointments at two locations: Manhattan Square Park office space, and the Saunders Building on the Medical Center campus.
UR Medicine expects to open more vaccine centers in the coming weeks to accommodate larger volumes of patients; they will also deploy mobile clinics.
New tool helps seniors with breast cancer make chemotherapy decisions
A new tool, developed in part by the Wilmot Cancer Institute, can predict which older women with early-stage breast cancer are more likely to experience severe chemotherapy side effects and which ones are not. The Rochester team was led by Allison Magnuson, an assistant professor of medicine, hematology and oncology.
One sign of an inbred population is eggs that fail to hatch, which is occurring at Archbold Biological Station with increasing frequency. If this was true at Archbold, it was likely the case elsewhere. “It kind of freaked out the scrub-jay community,” says Nancy Chen, an assistant professor of biology.
Chen annually travels to Venus, Florida, to study Florida scrub-jays, an endangered population of wild birds that have been individually marked and monitored since 1969.
To ensure timely tuition reimbursement, proof of tuition cost, proof of payment, and proof of successful course completion need to be received by the Office of Total Rewards via email no later than 90 days following course completion. For more information, visit the tuition web page.
'Lunch and Listen' program for Medical Center staff and clinical workers
The next “Lunch and Listen” concert from Eastman Performing Arts Medicine and the Office of Patient Experience takes place today, Tuesday, January 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST. Medical Center staff and clinical workers can join via Zoom to hear artists from the Eastman School of Music, and call in to make requests. This week’s concert features Letitia Jap ’19E (DMA) on violin, and Kenneth Kam, a graduate student of Eastman Professor of Guitar Nicholas Goluses, on guitar.
Open Educational Resources in the humanities
The River Campus Libraries will host an hour-long workshop today, Tuesday, January 19, at 2 p.m. EST on open educational resources and open pedagogy. Authors from Open Pedagogy Approaches will speak on their chapters, which will cover the challenges of creating an open anthology and harnessing the power of student-created content. Register here to attend.
Goal-setting with a resilient mind
Join Well-U on Wednesday, January 20, at 12:30 p.m. EST for a webinar that will walk you through how understanding and strengthening resilience can help you to set goals and make them a reality.
Learn how to copy materials from a previous course into your upcoming course
This workshop will cover how to copy individual items, individual tests, and full course materials into the template used by Arts, Sciences & Engineering, the Warner School of Education, School of Medicine and Dentistry graduate programs, the Eastman School of Music, and the Eastman Institute of Oral Health. The process will work for other school templates, but will be demonstrated with this template. Register to attend the workshop, taking place Thursday, January 21, at noon EST.
Learn more about staying active and safe in winter, whether you’re indoors or outdoors. Find out how to layer up when going outside for physical activity and get inspired by new indoor workout routines that include resistance training, low-impact cardio, and stretching. The taped presentation led by Jennifer Lee, lifestyle counselor at the Center for Community Health & Prevention, will be available on the Center’s Facebook page on Thursday, January 21, at 11 a.m. EST.
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UR Medicine has launched its first COVID-19 vaccine centers for patients aged 65 and older
