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16 hours ago The Lawrence University Environmental Organization is introducing a sustainable menstruation project in collaboration with the Student Alliance Against Sexual Harassment and Assault (SAASHA), the Lawrence University Disability Working Group (LUDWiG), the Diversity and Intercultural Center (D&IC) and the Lawrence Food Pantry.   According to junior Lauren Kelly, the president of the LU Environmental Organization, SAASHA will be educating students on period poverty and how to use the...

On-campus vaccination clinic reaches over 100 at EOU On-campus vaccination clinic reaches over 100 at EOU An EOU student receives the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine from COVID Response Nurse Elizabeth Sieders at the on-campus vaccination clinic May 4. May 13, 2021 LA GRANDE, Ore. – Dance music, free snacks and door prizes greeted the 110 people who attended an on-campus COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Eastern Oregon University on May 4.  The university partnered with CHD, Inc. Public Health, which ...

Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened May 12 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area Chicago Tribune staff, Chicago Tribune © Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune Noemy Godina, 45, a nurse at Cook County Health North Riverside Health Center, draws up a syringe of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on March 17, 2021, in North Riverside. In a letter to the school community, administrators wrote the decision was made as confidence in the vaccine’s effectiveness has increased an...

Northwestern University announced Wednesday that students will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine next academic year. In a letter to the school community, administrators wrote the decision was made as confidence in the vaccine’s effectiveness has increased and the supply has grown to meet the demand in Illinois. Meanwhile, U.S. health advisers endorsed use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in ...

Evanston Now New rule to take effect in the fall. (Shutterstock) Northwestern University will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the time classes start in the fall, or they “will not be able to register” for 2021-22 courses. Exceptions will be allowed for religious and medical reasons, but otherwise, all NU students will have to receive either the one-shot or two-shot dosage of any vaccine approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration or by t...

Eric Fredericks/Flickr Northwestern University is another local college to require students to be vaccinated before returning to campus this fall. “As confidence increases in the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine and the supply has met the demand in Illinois, Northwestern will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the 2021-22 academic year,” the school said. “COVID-19 vaccines are the most important tool to help end the pandemic, and requiring students to be vaccin...

Northwestern will require students to be fully vaccinated for the 2021-22 academic year. Faculty, staff and visitors will not be required to get the vaccine, Provost Kathleen Hagerty announced in a Wednesday community email. Students who cannot provide proof of their vaccination status and have not received an exemption may not be eligible to register...

Northwestern University announced Wednesday that students will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine next academic year.

12 hours ago Students, faculty and staff will be returning to in-person living and learning this Fall Term, announced by President Mark Burstein on April 28. The Lawrence Pandemic Planning Team (LPPT) worked together with colleagues and public health experts to create the Fall Term plan.  According to Burstein’s email, the decision was “grounded in the guiding principles that have framed our planning from the pandemic’s inception: to protect the health and safety of our community; to sus...

Get our free mobile app In a new message from Carleton Colleges President, Steve Poskanzer, shared Wednesday, April 28th, 2021, says that Carleton College students, faculty, and staff will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine prior to the start of Fall Term 2021. President Poskanzer writes that the decisions he has made that he lays out in his latest message, including the decision to require the vaccine, were developed "in conjunction with medical and epidemiological experts." He also says...