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-11 posts tagged "COVID-19 response"
Emma Duffy | Tuesday, February 22, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken over college campuses in the last two years. Notre Dame has instituted countless safety precautions in place to remedy this issue, and now, the impact of these measures is being studied to test the effectiveness of the University’s overall response. The research was conducted by the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative
Isa Sheikh | Friday, January 14, 2022
As students left campus in December, COVID-19 cases surged across the country. That trend has continued as the United States is averaging more than 700,000 new cases a day, far more than at any previous point in the pandemic. Though the Omicron variant has proven less fatal and less likely to lead to serious symptoms,
Claire Kirner | Monday, September 13, 2021
Will I do important research for a bio lab? Teach English to children in Uganda? Become an Imagineer for a Disney theme park? Growing up in South Bend, and surrounded by ND students as a kid, it’s safe to say I had pretty high expectations for my freshman year at Notre Dame. These incredible people
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
According to the HERE dashboard, 10.42% of my undergrad classmates have tested positive for COVID-19. As of today, there have been 910 undergraduate cases reported at a university with an undergraduate population of 8,731. For reference, a quick Google search and a calculator shows that about 2.65% of Americans nationally have tested positive for coronavirus.
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, August 21, 2020
When we learned the institutions within the tri-campus community intended to have students return for the fall semester, we experienced a variety of emotions — excitement to reunite with our friends, relief to return to the classroom following the difficulties of remote instruction and reluctance to acknowledge that the in-person semester we were promised could
Letter to the Editor | Friday, August 21, 2020
Dear students, Our moment in the midst of this pandemic has arrived. It’s a moment that we never went looking for, but it’s our moment, nonetheless. Faced with a surge in COVID-positive cases during the early weeks of the fall semester, we are once again facing the possibility of returning home for remote instruction. How
Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, August 21, 2020
“Is the flight still on?” Refresh page “Wait… Yes.” This is the interaction that played out on a loop every 10 minutes on the night of my flight back to the U.S. As a Notre Dame student who lives abroad, I have to fly over 6,000 miles back and forth every semester. On Aug. 4,
Letter to the Editor | Friday, August 21, 2020
I read Stephanie McKay’s letter “Send the students home” in Wednesday’s Observer and agree in certain respects: 1. We cannot blame the students for doing what students do and wanting to be around each other — after all, they haven’t seen each other since March. Summer break felt like an eternity when it was only
Mia Marroquin | Friday, August 21, 2020
Senior year. The last ride. One final hurrah. It didn’t really hit me that I was entering my fourth and final year at Saint Mary’s until I stood on The Avenue with some of my closest friends, jumping up and down welcoming first-years to their new home. I quickly realized that I had become that
Maeve Filbin | Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Dr. Katie Conboy became the newest Saint Mary’s College President on June 1, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and a nationwide reckoning with racism and policing in America, and has been “drinking from the firehouse” ever since. After assuming office, Conboy successfully led the College in making several changes to the student experience,