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A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
On March 6, 2020, the University of Washington became the first higher education institution in the U.S. to announce a move to remote instruction and work in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. This timeline takes a look back at the past year, from the perspectives of how the UW community adapted and the impact the UW’s researchers had in response to the virus in our state, the nation and around the world.
UW NEWSNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) updates
- Healthy Washington plan: All three UW campuses are in Phase 2; see what that means for you
- Latest information and updates from UW Environmental Health & Safety
- Human Resources: Child care options and resources
- Latest news releases:
- Video: Free coronavirus testing for UW community open for more enrollment
- Recent news coverage: UW experts comment on COVID-19
- Experts available: Our list of COVID-19 experts is available to reporters
- Tracking COVID-19: UW geographer creates interactive map of the novel coronavirus
OPINION AND ANALYSIS
Written by UW researchers, faculty and graduate students
- Opinion: Vaccine inequality and structural racist optics | South Seattle Emerald4 days ago
- Opinion: NASA needs to rename the James Webb Space Telescope | Scientific American4 days ago
- Opinion: Twenty years after 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, are we ready for the Next One? | The Seattle Times5 days ago
UW Notebook
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Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance
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Faculty/staff honors: Polymer Physics Prize, anthropology dissertation award
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UW books in brief: Historian Anand Yang explores British ‘penal transportation’; world music textbooks by Patricia Shehan Campbell
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