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Five students and four Auburn University employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and of those, one student and two employees have been hospitalized, according to Fred Kam, medical director for the Auburn University Medical Clinic.
With education rapidly adjusting as institutions across the globe move to remote instruction, college professors are learning to adjust with it. For Auburn professor Adam Jortner, this acclimation has provided a breeding ground for BuzzFeed recognition and TikTok fame.
Students who still need to gather their belongings from residence halls will have to delay move-out plans. University Housing announced it will suspend its early move-out days because of Gov. Kay Ivey's stay-at-home order issued on April 3.
Before Gov. Kay Ivey issued a stay-at-home order on April 3, making Alabama one of the last states in the South to issue such a directive, East Alabama Medical Center had been “pleading with the public” to stay home. Now, the hospital is saying that the order is, so far, essentially ineffective because of the exceptions that were put in place.
While a lot of students’ experience at Auburn is often dominated by the time they spend on campus, Daniel Donohoe, freshman in professional flight, said his experience has been shaped by the time he has spent five miles above campus.
For many classes and majors, the transition to online was relatively smooth. Some classes were already set up with lots of online resources even before the University closed.
Storybook Farms, a non-profit organization in Auburn, decided to postpone events and move to online programming to provide support for children and continue their mission of bridging the gap between hope and hardship.
The show must go on.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreck norms for businesses across the world, workers and owners are coping with an unprecedented financial and economic situation.
Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has partnered with a nonprofit organization that works to relieve medical debt.
Update April 6, 1:20 p.m. — The original live updates page is functioning again and will continue to be updated moving forwarded. This page will no longer be updated.
On March 31, EAMC’s Chief of Staff Michael Roberts, M.D. used the Penn Medicine CHIME tool to look at where East Alabama Medical Center—and its collective communities—stand regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus and social distancing. After sharing the resulting data with his colleague, Ricardo Maldonado, M.D., infectious disease specialist, the two knew it was make or break time.
In a interview with ESPN 106.7's The Lunch Break on Friday, former Auburn basketball player KT Harrell announced he would be returning to Auburn to join the men's basketball staff.
Auburn signee Sharife Cooper continues to rack up awards and achievements for his time at McEachern High School.
On Friday the SEC announced that all in-person athletic activities, including team and individual practices, meetings and other organized gatherings, whether voluntary or required, as well as camps and coaches clinics, will be suspended through at least May 31.
Gov. Kay Ivey issued a stay-at-home order on Friday that will be effective beginning on Saturday, April 4 at 5 p.m. and expire on April 30.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has suspended many organizations from normal operations, some work continues remotely with software such as Zoom allowing virtual conferencing. Faculty of Auburn University’s main campus aren’t the only ones who’ve had to make this transition; the University also manages the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. The directors of the federally mandated groups addressed the Auburn University Board of Trustees in a specially called teleconference meeting on April 3 to share how they are handling remote work and social distancing.
UPDATE: Gov. Kay Ivey has issued a stay-at-home order and the mayor has expressed his full support of the directive.
The Auburn University Board of Trustees approved a transferal of a parcel of land from the North Alabama Horticulture Substation to the Alabama Department of Transportation for $12,000 in a specially called teleconference meeting on April 3.
The number of people hospitalized at East Alabama Medical Center with confirmed cases of COVID-19 has more than tripled in one week — going from 9 patients on March 25 to 30 patients on April 1 — and the hospital is urging residents in Southeast Alabama to practice “shelter-in-place” mandates, even as the state hesitates to issue such a directive.
