Good afternoon all. Charlie burden, vice president for research, scholarship and innovation, welcoming you to this month's the October town hall in case you're wondering if it was October. We have George Watson to thank for the music leading it. And so the Halloween theme. Thanks very much, George, not only for the music, but, but for supporting these Town Halls throughout the semester. So we'll go ahead and get started. As we always do. I will start by sharing my screen and slides as well. Hold on a second. There we go. So again, afternoon. All we're fortunate to have some guest with us this afternoon who I'll introduce in just a moment. But just to give you a run of the time together. As a reminder, we'll be recording this session for online posting so folks who can't join us live have the opportunity to to learn some of the information shared, as well as get a sense of the Q and a session. So as always, the Q and a function is open. So please submit your questions using that Q&A function. And here's the really the run of the agenda. So let me just start by calling your attention to a very important event to teach and in listening session, cultivating campus safety, which is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. The on this slide, the highlighted text for Mitchell Hall is a hyperlink to the information for this teach-in session, which is being led very appropriately by our Center for the Study of gender-based violence and the Division of Student Life here at the University of Delaware. I do want to just take a moment to acknowledge the difficult time UT's campus community has gone through in recent weeks, from the hate speech, from visitors to New York who lashed out to our LGBTQ plus friends, colleagues, students, family and community members to the horrific act of violence against one of our students committed by another student to the student who lost his life. The news has been very troubling and quite painful. We first keep the victims in our prayers, that God's grace be with them. And for those recovering, we pray for speedy at full recovery. And that they know the UT community, a sphere for them as we continue to work together to ensure safe campus community for all. And I mean, for all, I do draw your attention to the programming coming up tuesday, Mitchell Hall, and additional programming that you'll be hearing about in the coming days and weeks ahead. Also later this week, Lou Ross Sea, the Dean of the Graduate College, will be hosting his monthly graduate town hall for graduate students and postdocs. That's Thursday of this week, October 21st at 11 AM. And again, a bottom of the slide is a hyperlink for registration for that zoom based town hall. It's now my great pleasure to invite some guests from our campus research community to give you a brief about a 10 minute presentation of the disaster research centers. So many of you know, the Disaster Research Center is a long standing, decades long standing, excellent program and research and education here at the University of Delaware. Administratively, it's had several different homes. Up until July 1st of this year. It had spent the better part of a decade housed in the College of Arts and Sciences. And I'm pleased to let folks know many already do that. As of July 1st of this year, the Disaster Research Center has moved moved back to the research office. So it's a great pleasure that I have the opportunity to work very closely with a pressure watched and dwarf. And Jim Kendra, who are the co-directors of the Disaster Research Center. Trisha is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Jim is a professor in the Biden school. So now I'm going to shop, stop sharing my slides and turn the program over to Trisha and jam. And again, if you have questions for Jim and Tricia during their presentation, please add them to the chat because we will go ahead and cure aid and answer that an address those questions, Jim and Kendra soon as their presentation and soap soap to Jim and Kendra, There you go. To Tricia and to Jim. So please, Tricia and Jim, welcome. Well, Charlie, thanks so much for the kind welcome and the the, the very warm introduction. And thank you also for the opportunity to take a few minutes and introduce the disaster research center to the, to the UT community, to those who don't notice and perhaps to reintroduce center to those who do. And I would just ask if you are able to see my screen. Not yet. Let's make that possible. How about now? Yes. Great. So again, thanks so much. As, as Charlie said, he was asked to research center is the oldest center in the world devoted to the social science and management aspect of disasters. It was founded at Ohio State University in 1963 by three sociologists, which were Russell dynes, Yale current telly, and Eugene Haas, who eventually became professors of Sociology here at the University of Delaware. And they were interested at that time in the organizational and group aspects of crisis. In particular, how individuals and groups and organizations which shift and change and respond to various kinds of crisis situations. But of course it being the, the early sixties where there was some interest at the time, obviously in the Cold War. And concerns or thoughts about how populations would respond in the event of some kind of crisis. Some of their initial funding came from the Office of Civil Defense, but they pivoted fairly quickly away from that to take on interests in disasters of all sorts, which disasters from climatological origins, meteorological, seismic events, and industrial hazards, and technological hazards of different types. In fact, one of the very first large-scale studies that the Disaster Research Center did was the 1964 Alaska earthquake and tsunami. And it was there that DRC also pioneered one of research methods for which it has become very closely associated. And that's the method of quick response disaster research. Where the idea is to get a tune into the field as quickly as possible in order to gather data that might be transient, that might be a femoral, that could vanish in a few weeks. Um, if, if people aren't there to observe it as closely as possible, and ideally such a study would set the stage for a larger study or longer-term study that might be conducted in the in the same area. And actually since then, DRC, up to the present time, has conducted something like 700 post-disaster quick response field studies pretty much around the world. Obviously, a lot of the emphasis has been here in the US, but not exclusively. And it's research method that we continue to this day. Obviously, since the DRC was in Ohio for the first 20 years of its existence, there was, I guess unfortunately in a way ready access to events of flooding, of tornadoes, industrial and technological accidents of different sorts. If you see a photo from one of the earlier field studies. More recently, we've sent teams to Nepal to look at this between 2015 to look at aftermath of Nepal earthquake. Again, particularly with regard to how organizations responded to that event. Looking at inter-organizational coordination, in particular, among the various kinds of relief agencies that were in the field at that time. And then here also Hurricane Harvey. And again, this is just a very small representation of the large number of studies that TRC has done. Most of DRC is work has has been federally funded, but not exclusively. A lot of our funding comes from the National Science Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, national oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and and others. So DRC moved to the US, the University of Delaware in 1985. And I would say that, that even though the center was, was founded originally by sociologists, it has always had a very strong interdisciplinary orientation. In fact, two of the DRC directors who were also Professor of Sociology here in the late 1990s and enter quite recently. Their focus was on risk perception and risk communication. And much of their work, for example, was done with the California Seismic Safety permission, where there was a lot of interest in understanding how people would would adapt to the earthquake hazard. What would be the, the willingness to mitigate or retrofit buildings, houses, and so forth. So there's always been a fairly strong interdisciplinary connection. So that even though interdisciplinarity now is, is something that is very much appreciated throughout the academic world is something that DRC has had a long connection to. That advanced even more in around mid to late 2000s, 2006, 2007, when three civil engineers joined DRC as the core faculty. And then more recently, when we were very glad that we're able to be part of the cluster hire that was initiated in 2017, 2018, where we added a number of social scientists and a civil engineer to the, to the DRC core faculty. So for example, here we have number of DRC faculty who are part of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, then Department of Anthropology and the College of Health Sciences. And three of us from the biome School of Public Policy and Administration. And finally, four of our core faculty from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. So again, highly interdisciplinary. And one of the things I think that has been that has been invaluable about DRC over the course of its history. It, that is that it does provide a, a welcoming homework least one welcoming home for faculty who are interested in crossing the boundaries between various disciplines. It's part of what has given our work in disaster. It's, it's synergy. And one of the things about disaster is that it, it can touch on basically any area of human knowledge. And so we've been, we've been very glad to be able to both pursue and to advance the interdisciplinary work that, that DRC does over time. So DRC has certainly grown from a couple of directors and and basically that was just them to directors and to faculty. So that now we have two directors, 10 additional core faculty, two of our emeritus faculty, and a number of other students and staff who composed the Disaster Research Center. So in terms of current projects, as you might guess, for the last 18 months or so, a number of our projects have had a lot to do with, with COVID. That includes a very large community study of COVID here in the New York area, where we interviewed about 350 huge students, faculty, staff, administrators, New York residents, new or business people, representative of non-profit organizations and, and others. Basically looking at their adaptations to COVID in their lives, how they changed there. The different roles that they fill, either as, as, as faculty is members of a family, as members of business and so forth. So that was very, very large study and one that was very gratifying for the amount of response and interests that we that we had in that from when we first put out the call for participants in the summer of 2020. On up through the present, we have other projects that focus on critical infrastructure. In particular, most recently, how people adapt to losses of electricity and water service. A large study we've done on community recovery and resilience that was sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And speaking of interdisciplinarity, I think that was probably one of the most interdisciplinary studies that we've, that we've done, which consisted of a geographer, several sociologists to two physicians, a physicist, Biot, health statisticians, civil engineers, a mathematician, and several public health scholars. So not typically a group that you would see around the same conference table, but, but something that was, that was obviously interesting and, and, and satisfying to be a participant in studies on climate adaptation in coastal management, in particular, the idea of managed retreat from the shoreline. And multiple studies on how people as, as homeowners and householders can mitigate the risks to their, to their dwellings from hurricanes. We have study ongoing that looks at how the use of smartphone data to get a better understanding of how people evacuate disaster something vacuum. Complement field observations or interviews, methodologies and studies on post-disaster care for, for pets in disaster. So obviously a very wide ranging set of studies that, you know, that we continue to pursue. Apart from DRC is research work. Another thing that we, that we are particularly active in, various kinds of outreach and public engagement. We consider this to be one of the primary missions of DRC. Not just to to do the research work, but also to ensure that it finds application and to ensure that it's also available to public officials or to journalists or others who are in a position to either used to use our findings. To spread the more widely. So we've participated in many of the new our community day activities, or at least no, prior to prior to COVID. So you see one photograph there. We contribute op-eds and editorials in various media like this one here by our professor AR siders on managed retreat. And we also try to be as accessible as we can to journalists and writers of every description. Again, part of our goal is to get the, to get the best information out into the public, either through our own efforts or through the efforts of others as, you know, as much as we can. And apart from that, apart from the research and the and the public outreach, there's also something else that we have maintained as a as a kind of a customer DRC over a long period of time. And that is what we call the GRC experience. And that is where we, we believe that it is important for the graduate students to be as fully immersed in project work as quickly as possible. As soon as they arrive at DRC. That means that we devolved to them a great deal of responsibility for project management. That means that that they're really responsible as soon as we can make them for, you know, for managing the projects that they're working on. And that has been, I think a fairly large part of the success that the students have found. They have a number of successful career paths available to them. For example, most of our doctoral students have found positions in academia or in government or a private non-profit sectors. Whereas the master's students typically find responsible positions in private organizations, consulting firms, the non-profit sector, or of course, are of course government and government emergency management agencies. And fat is just the very quick overview of the, of the center. So now I will turn things over to Trisha to talk about the clientele, a resource collection. Thank you. And I will say I know Charlie, we're a little over our time, so I'm going to go through your mind very quickly, but I think it's really important for that, the research community to know what resources are available to them. An outlet general, click through to the next slide and I'll move through it quickly. So thinking about the, the current tally collection, this is housed within the Disaster Research Center and was founded by one of our co-founders, EL core IntelliJ. It's a tremendous resource that's available for faculty and students on campus. We have very rare, hard to find original disaster research materials. This conclude include anything from something that's very timely, like our mean collection from the COVID-19 pandemic that we're still dealing with. Two very extensive historical research data or tribal holdings, including interview data. Hard to find documents, really numbering in the hundreds of thousands. We have an open stacks that is on site. This is just a very small portion, if any of you have been to DRC, you'll have seen what we have available there, but we also have off-site storage where we can pull material. There's a number of ways that we can help researchers who have sustained interest or a developing interests in this area. I know a lot of people around campus are doing work on COVID-19 and climate change. So even if you don't think about yourself as a disaster research center, we can help by providing materials related. She's study design. There is a lot of comparative studies that we have going back to the 1700s, where you can compare something that's going on now, as opposed to a few decades ago or a few 100 years ago. We also have an opportunity for data storage. So as you are generating your own data for your projects, researchers can have the option to gift data to the center so that future researchers can make use of it. There are specific procedures involved in terms of the deed of gift, from what restrictions or embargoes on it too. We can also provide guidance on other mechanisms to store data in the long-term so that it isn't something that just you make use of for your students, but something that really can be beneficial in the long run. That's fine. These are just a few of the examples of how people who are outside of the disaster Research Center have made use of the collection be at rand Corporation asking us for some of the original documents of the creation of theme as higher education program, we recently had an historian from Yale University using some upper or oral histories, examining these. The term vulnerability for a research on a book on climate change. And even wildfire managers who are requesting information on decision-making in the post incident period. So there's a lot of ways that we provide help to those who are outside of the university. In the next slide I reference. This is chance. So we had a New York Times contributing author contact us doing work on the 1964 earthquake and a journalist, she played a key role in that response. Coming across the extensive collections from one of our first studies. And having that play a central role in his book. So thinking about how, in what happens 50 years ago can generate new insight and findings on something that is being produced today. And then the last thing that I'll leave you with is contact information. Valerie Marlowe, who is our Assistant Director for archives and collections. You can reach out to us or have your students reach out to us if you want to make use of the library. Generally, we are now working on a 90 day turnaround given COVID-19 and a lot of the inquiries that we are having. But at the same time, if you are from the University of Delaware, that is prioritized. So just make sure when you're reaching out that you say that you're part of Uji and then we can bump you up in the queue on that front. So thank you so much for Shenzhen. Thanks. Thanks so much for that great overview and presentation. I thank you what a lot of folks appetite. So maybe I'll just tee up one question and we can leave the resources slide on the screen for a moment so people can, can jot down those URLs or e-mail address. And that was either of you or both. Comment a little bit more. You mentioned the, the cluster higher search of a few years ago. And one of the challenges COVID has presented, of course, is that some of our newest faculty colleagues we haven't had a chance to engage with and in traditional way. So maybe you could just say a little bit more about the, the interests and the expertise of some of the new faculty that you've brought on board. Sure. And so maybe I'll take two and Jim will cover the other two. So thinking about Sarah Young, he's in the Sociology Department and she has a joint appointments at courtesy appointment in the Biden school. She is coming, she came as a more advanced assistant professor, has done considerable work not only on evacuation decision-making to the projects that Jim had mentioned on pets and disasters. She had a book that just came out this year with a former DRC and sociology alumni. A lot of work on infant and maternal well-being in the post-disaster environment. Again, doing a lot of interdisciplinary work. And Jennifer traumatic who also had a book come out this year on Hurricane Katrina and recovery from the anthropology department very much interested in long-term recovery issues, the cultural aspects of disasters. And both have really hit the ground running in terms of interdisciplinary external grants that they've submitted. Them. There are two faculty that were hired as part of, as part of that cluster hire process. One is Professor AR siders who has joined appointments in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Geography. She she's also a lawyer and her interests are in coastal land use and coastal management. One of the one of the areas of research that she's pursuing and developing a very strong reputation on is the idea of, of managed retreat and how we can encourage less use of the coastal zone and encouraged where possible people to, to move away from the coastal zone. Anticipating that that's going to be a site of considerable hazards with climate change over the next decade. And then there's Professor Shang Zhou Dong, who was a civil engineer. His interests are in infrastructure risk management. So mom, his recent studies are again how people respond to losses of electricity and water. And he also has interests in various aspects of transportation as well. Great. Thanks. Thanks so much for that. Thanks for a great overview presentation again, I hope they interdisciplinarity. Really wet Folks appetite, lots of opportunities for collaboration, strengthening existing ones, developing new ones in it. And it's Tricia said the cartel a collection is really a remarkable asset and resource that, that's only outpaced by the quality of the faculty that we have in the Disaster Research Center, but, but a great resource for our faculty, staff and students across campus. So please, I encourage folks if they're interested to, to follow up with Tricia and jam. And now I will go back to sharing my screen. I think Kim, Let's see how this works. Okay, there we go. So I'm back to our regularly scheduled programming, so to speak, if you will. So just a quick updates and then what I want to leave time at the end certainly for, for questions. So this most recent wave of COVID, driven by the delta variant is certainly subsiding nationally and in the state of Delaware. But as you'll notice on this slide, the numbers in terms of daily case count in the state are still relatively high from a perspective of the 18 or 19 month view of the pandemic. So I think that helps putting contexts that while numbers have decreased recently, there's still a fair bit of COVID and our communities in the state, with respect to the more local numbers. Very, very pleased to report that the number of new positive cases on-campus for last week were a single digit numbers per day. And along the right-hand side you see the total number of positive cases per week since we started doing on campus surveillance testing a little bit over a year ago. So the started the spring 21 semester, you saw that spike and of course week we saw a spike in the beginning of this fall semester, but now we've, we've dropped down to very manageable numbers and we certainly want to continue to take all the precautions that we know work to keep those numbers low so we can continue on in a very productive fall semester. I'll say a little bit about vaccination, vaccination rates. So again, on the BUT COVID dashboard, you can get updates. More than 90 percent of our students fully vaccinated, more than 90 percent of employees who are coming to campus or I've come to campus and in the last seven days are fully vaccinated. As a reminder, since the beginning of the fall semester prior to that, we had a vaccine requirement for students. And as you will have seen and announcements that came out from Human Resources last week, as well as some verbal announcements from President sourness or the week before the general faculty meeting of the Board of Trustees Meeting by December 8th. It's our expectation that all employees will be fully vaccinated. And I'll say in just a moment why that requirement is being put in place. There will be, as the asterix notes here, medical and religious exemptions with the expectation that those exempted individuals, as they are currently are expected to test weekly. Starting to get questions are continuing perhaps to get questions about boosters. Lot of information is coming out around boosters. So we're continuing to monitor information as it comes from the CDC and local health professionals. And so as guidance changes with respect to booster is if and when it does, that information will be communicated to campus on a timely basis. So the employee vaccination requirement, this really stems from the White House executive order that was issued in early September and subsequent guidance that came from the safer federal work force task force in late September. The University of Delaware because currently just did in the research realm alone, we have, as of last week's inventory a 175 active contracts and what the federal government calls contract like instruments. So those are things such as cooperative agreements that total $360 million and active awards. And so the executive order makes it really pretty straightforwardly clear that any entity, in this case, the University of Delaware, contracting with the federal government through these contract and contract like instruments is obligated to abide by the executive order. And so it's a relatively broadly written order with respect to vaccination mandates for employees for those entities contracting with the federal government. So specifically applies to all of our employees full and part-time that are working in the US regardless of location. So even if you're working remotely, there is a vaccination expectation. And there's also an expectation for those working at the institution, even if they are not working directly on the contract or the contract like instrument. And then lastly, I just mentioned that it also applies to subcontract so many of you know, sometimes the University of Delaware entrusted to 100 agreement where the prime recipient of the federal dollars is another institution might be university, might be some other entity. And then they contract with the University of Delaware by a subcontract. Or the flip is true, namely the University of Delaware is the prime and we're passing down subcontract terms to a partner organization. So subcontract ys are obligated to comply, and so the university will be complying. Let me just back up and emphasize that the compliance date, which was indicated in the e-mail from HR is full compliance by December 8th, and full compliance is defined as two weeks beyond your second shot of vaccine or your laugh shoot me or last shot a vaccine. The second shot, if it's a two shot, Pfizer or Moderna, and a single shot if it's j and j. So that puts you at, I believe it was November 24th, The last day to get the final shot to be sure that you're two weeks out by the time you get to December 8th. And if folks have additional questions and I imagined, you may just encourage you to follow up with with Human Resources and as additional information becomes available, it will certainly be shared. Just to reminder from last time that UD events, we expect all attendees ages 12 and older to show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours of the event. As well as those all attendees aged 12 and older show the daily health screen. So complete the Qualtrics survey. With regard to campus, we continue to do health screen compliance checks that a variety of locations, including classrooms where faculty instructors are at their discretion, allowed to ask their students to show the green. Check. Again in that setting, it's important that your request to show the green check is applied consistently and equitably across all the students in your classroom. With regard to testing, there's still remains ample opportunity for testing of all types, particularly the surveillance testing. So the Dashboard data shows here that last week we dropped below 3000 tests total between asymptomatic UTI sponsor testing, some state-sponsored testing on campus, and a little bit of Student Health Services Testing for symptomatic individuals, we can reach numbers in excess of 6 thousand. So I would encourage folks to continue to use testing is a way to monitor their health status even if you've been vaccinated and encourage classmates, friends, family members, community UD, community members to continue to be tested. And then lastly, research travel guidelines. Again to remind you if you're traveling domestically, that travel is permitted for Udi based research travel, the application form hasn't been required for quite some time and that continues to be the case. However, if you are traveling internationally on research university business, you are asked to complete the application form that affirms that all travelers are fully vaccinated. And we are permitting universities permitting travel to countries that are level 12 and even three in the CDC guidance, traveled to level four countries continues to be prohibited at this time. And so with that, I'll turn it back over to Tracy Brian to always does a great job as our facilitator for the Q and a. And so I'm sure Tracy has been paying attention to the Q&A and the chat. Tracy turn it over to you. Thank you, Charlie. Good afternoon to you and to all of our attendees. We have one question in the Q and a so far. So this one is just a vaccine requirements include consult was paid for on UD awards. They would not be UD employees or sub awardees. While we're looking through that right now and trying to understand the extent to which consultants would be obligated. And as soon as we have clarity on that question, we'll share it back out with the research community. Okay, Very good. That's the only question we've received. I guess the good news is since we got one, we know the Q and a is working. Yes. Well, we'll wait just a minute or two and see if there are other questions that that come in. But if not, I don't think anyone will be opposed to ascending early. Nothing more so far. Oh, here we go. Why is unmasking permitted in conference rooms? I'm not sure I'm masking is permitted in a conference rooms if that would be the person presenting is allowed to unmask if they can maintain physical distancing from all other attendees in the conference from so it's only the presenter that has the option to unmask at their discretion provided that they're fully vaccinated. Okay, Very good. We also have a comment here from Marx. See for it Who says that? For the next vaccination clinic on campus, it will also include the opportunity to get the flu vaccine. So just wanted to make that point and thank you, Mark. Yeah, thank you, Mark for that. I mean, that question has come up and it turns out that one can receive both shots at the same day. And in fact, you'd think you can even receive it in the same arm at different parts of the arm are different arms if you prefer, but to get vaccinated for both COVID and the influenza. Okay, Very good. And Charlie, we have another question. What happens to the faculty and staff if they do not comply with the vaccine mandate, this person wants to know what they get fired. So. Hr and General Counsel on the university is looking at that at this point, it's very clear that the university expects that we will comply and that there will be consequences for individuals who are in noncompliance. Okay, Thank you. The vote visual asked do you have to wear a mask when working in your office alone? If you're in your office alone, you do not have to wear a mask now, by any chance of interacting with other individuals, you should have your mask handy nearby as I do right here. Great. Can family members attend the next 2D vaccine clinic this person wants to now, I will defer to mark c for Dan. If mark is able is still on to answer that question, he would be the best source. Okay. We'll give mark a minute there. Another question. When booster shots become available, will you provide days and will they be required? So we continue to be in contact with the providers for vaccines. And so if boosters become required or are even more important, generally important than they are already, we envision having some vaccine events provided, the supplies available. And then in terms of required, again, we will look towards CDC and Delaware Division of Public Health for guidance in terms of what are the best recommendations to keep our campus safe. And then we'll communicate those decisions broadly. Okay, Thank you, Charlie, question here. If we are employing students from other universities this summer for a federally funded research project. What is the process for validating their vaccination status? I would imagine they would have to upload their vaccination status like our employees and students have had to do currently. And so that that would be the expectation you have there. Their employees, student employees, they would be subject to the vaccination mandate is our current interpretation of the executive order. Okay. Thank you. And Mark C. For notes that yes, the clinic is open to the public. He says that the daily story with all the registration information, check that out that was distributed last week, but he asked if you need more information, please contact him. Thank you, Mark. Thanks, Mark. Appreciate it. Here's another one. The CDC has finally acknowledge the role of airborne transmission and public health experts are speaking up. The six foot roll is widely considered OBS, obsolete. This person writes, why are people allowed to unmask if they are by themselves in a conference room. This can result in the next person being, being infected by the virus that is filled the room. I think that perspective that I've heard before, but certainly not consistent with all of the guidance that we here at UT are being provided. So we'll stick with the guidance says it's currently described and certainly as the science evolves, as we've learned over the last 820 months, as the science evolves and the public health guidelines change, university will change with them. But no changes on that matter just yet. Okay, thank you. This person asks is a picture of your vaccination card on your phone sufficient for proof of vaccination? I believe uploading of photographs both sides, front and back of the vaccine card is accepted? Yes. And another one here, if an employee should get the booster, should they submit it to HR? I think that's not required at this time, but certainly keep track of that boost or documentation because one could imagine, as we talked about earlier, that that down the road that may be important information to upload, but it's not required at this time. Okay. Thank you. And then one individual wanted to know if the slides and audio or available from town hall. We always make those available on the research office website. Just letting them know and we've addressed all the questions so far. Excellent. Thanks very much, Tracy. As always, some we can. Oh, is there one more? Yeah. When is the last day to submit a religious slash medical exemption and how long is the turn around to hear back? I think they are each a each exemption request is reviewed, so it's a matter of days. I would encourage folks to get those requests and sooner because I could imagine that as we get closer to the deadline, if people are waiting towards the deadline, the turnaround time could be impacted by volume. So get them in as soon as possible would be my recommendation. Okay. Very good. Okay. Seeing no more questions. I think we'll we'll call it an afternoon. Good to see everyone. Thanks again to nutrition, Jim, for that great overview of the Disaster Research Center. As we've talked about in the past, we are going to use these town halls as an opportunity to keep our campus community. And those who join us informed about a lot of the great research, scholarly, and creative activities that at UD. So I'm glad that Tricia and Jim were able to join us and I would invite others if you're interested in presenting at a future research town hall to drop me an email and we'd love to hear from you. So until November, stay safe, everyone, take care.
COVID-19 TownHall 10-18-21
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A town hall hosted on October 18, 2021, provides important updates for the UD research community, from campus operations to grants administration, and ways you can help our local community at this time.
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