[Faculty] UPDATED GUIDANCE REGARDING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

[Antin, Parker B - (pba)]

CALS Faculty,

Over the past few days there have been commiunications and messages from numerous sources providing varying guidance regarding the continuance of research on campus.  We recognize that these have created both confusion and concern among CALS faculty who have ongoing projects with significant  investments in time and resources.

The following guidance is aligned with University policy at this time and supersedes any other CALS communications you have received regarding the continuance of research on campus.

As detailed in four guidance documents available here https://research.arizona.edu/covid19, research is permissible on campus to sustain our research operations to the extent possible while ensuring the safety and health of all researchers and our research labs and facilities. This should be accomplished through robust discussions with laboratory personnel and development of mitigation plans that maximize social distancing while maintaining research activities. Specific University guidance for all facility, staff and students is as follows:


  *   Non-essential in-person activity in laboratories is discouraged and  it is strongly encouraged that all possible non-essential research work be migrated to online / work-from-home modes;
  *   The implementation of robust social distancing measures among personnel in your research spaces—for example, by mixing remote work, onsite work, staggering schedules, and by holding meetings by teleconference—should be developed immediately.

You should seek to minimize the number of people working overall in your laboratories, and also at any one time, while sustaining your research program to the extent possible.

I hope the this clarifies the present policies regarding the continuance of research on campus.  Please contact me and/or your unit head with additional questions that you may have.  I’m available 24/7.

Stay safe and healthy,

Parker


Parker B. Antin, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research
Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension
Associate Dean for Research
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
College of Medicine
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