Your questions, answered: a Q&A with UF administrators on Fall reopening
The Alligator spoke with university administrators to answer reader-submitted questions regarding UF's reopening. Check out their answers below.
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The Alligator spoke with university administrators to answer reader-submitted questions regarding UF's reopening. Check out their answers below.
Eight hours in, two decisions made. Still lots of questions.
When Kirsten Zelonka gets sick, it feels like a roller coaster. All she can do is try to hold on, knuckles white and clutching the safety bar.
Kelli Agrawal said she felt like she didn’t belong. She was the only openly queer graduate student in her public health masters program when she came to UF in 2015.
While tabling at his first Pride event as a UF LGBTQ+ Affairs ambassador, an elderly woman approached Georges Obayi with tears in her eyes.
July 1
Lauren Mizell traded her mellophone and Gator Band uniform for a pair of goggles and protective gear. The cheers and chants became sirens and lights. Football tackles became gunshot wounds and 911 calls.
Every five to 15 minutes, a heart monitor beeped—then came the heart fluctuation, said Amanda Shelowitz, a 19-year-old UF health science sophomore. She shadowed EMTs throughout 2019, and the experience left her shaken.
A crowd of more than 100 healthcare workers knelt on the pavement in remembrance of George Floyd. For 10 minutes, only the sound of nearby cars and soft weeping settled over the courtyard. A light sprinkle fell.
UF is committed to reopening and welcoming students back to campus for the Fall semester. We are not waiting for COVID-19 to disappear, or for a cure or vaccine. We have decided that we must learn to live, study and work in the midst of COVID-19.
Curtis Murray sits rigidly in the chair at the dentist for 10 long minutes. Suddenly, he moans in distress and leaps from the seat. He runs straight from the room to his mother's car.
The last year of medical school means rotating between hospital services, traveling the country in search of residency programs and studying for the final board exam.
Two Gainesville-area Publix Supermarket employees have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first known positive cases of the virus at the essential business in Alachua County.
Students will likely pay nearly the same in fees for the Summer, despite classes moving online and a proposed change in student fees.
More than 2,000 people in UF’s Jewish community at Chabad used to get together to eat kugel, brisket and matzo to celebrate Passover.
The fourth telephone town hall meeting was held Wednesday night to discuss health care for the homeless, unemployment resources and other resident concerns amid the spread of COVID-19.
Two new COVID-19 cases were reported at UF today, marking the first cases announced at the university in almost a week.
UF Health researchers and staff are working to make essential resources available to combat COVID-19.
Alachua County’s positive COVID-19 cases reached 87 this evening, as the state’s confirmed cases continue to surge.