In a message to the campus community, Provost Persis Drell writes that Stanford plans to require all undergraduate, graduate and professional students coming to campus this fall to be vaccinated for COVID-19, with accommodations for those who cannot take a vaccination for medical or religious reasons.
Stanford suspends BOSP summer quarter programs in 11 locations
Stanford has announced plans to suspend 11 Bing Overseas Studies Program Summer Quarter 2020-21 study away programs. The viability of summer study abroad programs in Oxford and Santiago remain under review through early May.
Testing requirements for spring quarter for new undergraduates
The Dean of Students and Vaden Health Services provide guidance for undergraduates who will be living on campus this spring for the first time since March 2020.
Hitting the reset button: Building a better normal after the pandemic
Instead of emerging from the coronavirus pandemic resilient to crisis and catastrophe, Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki asks what if we grew stronger because of it?
March 19 marks the one-year anniversary of California's stay-at-home order. Despite a year apart, the Stanford community has contributed in meaningful ways toward research and helping others.
University leaders discuss decision-making in the time of COVID-19
The university’s response to the pandemic has required countless short- and long-term decisions and has drawn on the expertise of hundreds across the campus community.
James Swartz has spent a dozen years refining an underappreciated biotech technique into a radical new vaccine approach that could quickly protect billion of people from the next COVID-19-level pandemic.
Over first year of pandemic, confronting uncertainty with action at Stanford Medicine
A look back at Stanford Medicine’s efforts to educate, protect and care for patients and members of the public since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic a year ago today.
Dean of Students Mona Hicks and Vaden Health Services Executive Director Jim Jacobs provide information on optional, pre-travel COVID-19 testing for students who will be coming to Stanford for the first time in 2021.
A message to the campus community highlights a new web page that aims to help members of the campus community track the latest information about vaccine distribution.
Scheduling your COVID-19 tests to comply with twice-weekly requirement
Senior Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Students Mona Hicks and Vaden Medical Services Executive Director Dr. James R. Jacobs provide answers to student questions about twice weekly testing, compliance checks, and temporary absences from campus.
Associate Vice Provost Russell Furr provides an update on public health restrictions at Stanford following the state’s lifting of the regional stay-at-home order, which still leaves local counties in the highest-risk purple tier of the state’s COVID-19 framework.
Millions of Californians are combating COVID with their smartphone, are you?
The state is encouraging all Californians to do their part to stop by the spread of COVID, not only by wearing masks and social distancing, but also by activating the CA Notify exposure notification app.
Stanford continues to adjust to the pandemic challenges
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Persis Drell and Medical School Dean Lloyd Minor brought the campus community up to date Thursday with news of the university’s adjustments to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
Due to the continuing COVID-19 surge, lengthening public health restrictions and their likely impact on the on-campus undergraduate experience, Stanford unfortunately will not be able to have the frosh and sophomore classes on campus for the winter quarter as planned.
Though Stanford continues to await information on whether universities will play a role in COVID-19 vaccine administration beyond the healthcare setting, the State of California is providing more information about its vaccine plans overall.
County mandated change to breakroom and kitchenette access
To comply with capacity limitations set by Santa Clara County, Stanford is limiting access to breakrooms and will make alternative break spaces available.
Response to questions about vaccine distribution plans
Russell Furr, associate vice provost for Environmental Health & Safety, notes that Stanford Health Care has begun vaccinating healthcare workers, and says that there is currently no information available as to when the vaccine will be available for the broader community.
COVID-19 surveillance testing for faculty, staff and postdocs
The Health Alerts website provides detailed information on Stanford's surveillance testing program including requirements, locations and hours during winter quarter.
Message to undergraduate students on winter quarter
Susie Brubaker-Cole, vice provost for student affairs, and Sarah Church, vice provost for undergraduate education, address the impact of the latest local public health policies and Provost Drell’s message about winter quarter plans.
Message to grad students on public health policies, winter quarter
Susie Brubaker-Cole, vice provost for student affairs, and Stacey F. Bent, vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs, address the impact of the latest local public health policies and Provost Drell’s message about winter quarter plans.
A look inside Stanford’s expanded Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) lab
University photographer Andrew Brodhead takes us inside Stanford’s expanded Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) lab. This type of lab is capable of handling microbes that can cause serious or potentially lethal disease through inhalation, such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
A new wastewater testing approach capable of better detecting viral infection patterns in communities could prove a crucial step toward an informed public health response to diseases like COVID-19.
In a message to the Stanford community, Russell Furr, associate vice provost for environmental health & safety, details adjustments at Stanford in response to Santa Clara County moving to the purple “widespread risk” tier, effective Tuesday.
Innovative tools bolster Stanford’s COVID-19 surveillance testing program
Health Check and COVID dashboards work in tandem with Stanford’s testing program for those working on campus and as the university makes decisions on increasing the number of students and employees who can return.
