In a message sent yesterday to the University community, David Figlio, provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education, and Liz Milavec, executive vice president for administration and finance and chief financial officer, shared COVID-19 guidance to help ensure a safe and healthy environment as well as manageable methods to address positive cases on campus.
The University will continue to follow CDC, New York State, and Monroe County guidance throughout the year, and University senior leaders and health officials will coordinate University planning. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to check the COVID-19 Resource Centerfor the most current information.
In today’s issue:
Diversity and re-entry supplement grants are available through the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Learn more about graduate programs at the Warner School of Education
Watch the live stream of today’s Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony
University flags on the Eastman Quadrangle and near the entrance of Strong Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department will be lowered Thursday, August 18, for Ana Daniels, a secretary IV in the immunology and rheumatology division of the Department of Medicine, who died on July 25. Daniels joined the University staff in 2001.
The University’s Treasury office warns the University community that fraudsters posing as technical support are calling merchants and directing employees to update card terminals by pressing a series of buttons on the terminal. The information the employee enters on the terminal is actually a refund transaction to a card controlled by the fraudster, who then directs the employee to batch the terminal out after completing the refund to set the payment in motion and make it more difficult to reverse the fraudulent transaction. It’s important for all merchants to be aware of this threat and to alert all employees about this scam. Legitimate technical support for terminals is requested by the merchant rather than initiated by the terminal support provider. Routine updates are typically pushed electronically outside of regular business hours, and the merchant doesn’t need to take any action. Contact Treasury@rochester.edu with questions.
Apply for diversity and re-entry supplement grants
Are you a trainee, postdoc, or early-career researcher from a group that is underrepresented in health research? Or are you restarting your research career after a hiatus to care for family or to pursue non-research endeavors, like military service? The Clinical and Translational Science Institute can help you get your research career off the ground with a National Institutes of Health diversity or re-entry supplement to the UL1 grant. Both supplement grants provide up to two years of salary support and fringe benefits for candidates to conduct research that aligns with the institute’s priorities. Submit a brief application form by Monday, August 22.
Attend an information session with Warner School of Education admissions on Tuesday, August 16, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at The Beer Market in College Town. Learn more about graduate programs in counseling, educational leadership, education policy, health professions education, higher education, human development, online teaching, program evaluation, and teaching. The next application deadline is October 15. Register in advance to attend. Light appetizers and a drink ticket will be provided. View all upcoming information sessions if you can’t make the August session. Contact Warner School’s admissions office with questions.
Incoming medical students will be formally inducted into the School of Medicine and Dentistry during the Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony at 9 a.m. today, August 12. Receiving their white coats symbolizes that the new students are joining their peers and predecessors in the medical profession. The ceremony will be streamed live.
In anticipation of the ceremony, several faculty members offer their best piece of advice as the first-year medical students start their new journey. Find the full video on the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Facebook page.
Face masks are optional for all students, faculty, staff, and visitors indoors. Patient care areas, as well as University shuttles and transportation, continue to require masking. A full description of Medical Center masking requirements is available on the URMC Intranet (University network access required).
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