ÂÒÂ×С¿É°®

August 11, 2021

Dear Colleagues:Ìý

We write today to provide information about plans to help protect the health and safety of our campus community during the coming academic year.Ìý

The University will require all students, faculty, and staff—regardless of vaccination status—who will be on campus during the fall semester to be tested for the coronavirus this month, as we did a year ago and in January. (The only exception will be those individuals who have tested positive via a valid PCR test and have recovered within the previous 90 days.) Testing will take place in Conte Forum August 16-29, with the first week devoted to faculty, staff, graduate/professional students, and undergraduates living off campus. The second week will primarily be for undergraduate students in University housing, and will be tied to their scheduled residence hall move-in times. Residential undergraduate students must be tested before they will be allowed into their campus housing.Ìý

During the week of August 16-21, faculty and staff testing will be available in Conte Forum on a walk-in basis. The schedule for next week is as follows:

• Mon 8/16
  8 am – 5 pmÌý
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• Tue 8/17
  8 am – 5 pm
  
  
• Wed 8/18
  6:30 am – 4 pm
  
  
• Thu 8/19
  10 am – 6 pm
  
  
• Fri 8/20
  8 am – 5 pm
  
  
• Sat 8/21
  9 am – 3 pm
  

Faculty and staff may also seek testing in Conte Forum August 22-29, but should expect longer wait times due to student volume:

• Sun 8/22
  9 am – 5 pmÌý
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• Mon 8/23
  8 am – 7 pm
  
  
• Tue 8/24
  9 am – 7 pm
  
  
• Wed 8/25
  6:30 am – 7 pm
  
  
• Thu 8/26
  9 am – 7 pm
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• Fri 8/27
  8 am – 7 pm
  
  
• Sat 8/28
  9 am – 7 pm
  
  
• Sun 8/29
  10 am – 5 pm

To access the testing center, all faculty, staff, and students will have to present the ÂÒÂ×С¿É°® symptom check via theÌýÌýupon entry to Conte Forum, and will need to wear a mask while in Conte for testing. Upon completion of the test, wristbands will be distributed, which we ask all members of the ÂÒÂ×С¿É°® community to wear through September 3. All who have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 90 days must acquire a wristband at the Conte Forum test site. (Faculty and staff must provide documentation of a positive PCR test to University Health Services in Conte.) ÂÒÂ×С¿É°® will utilize its on-campus laboratory and continue to work with the Broad Inst