[Che-student-staff-list] FW: Coronavirus announcement from the Provost - Telecommuting - Chemical Engineering insights

Mon Mar 16 16:02:23 EDT 2020

Dear All,

Due to Outlook issues, and on behalf of Dr. Kim, I am resending his email sent earlier this morning in order to ensure everyone receives the important message from our School Head. You will find his message below.
For those who receive duplicates, I apologize for the inconvenience.

To that effect, the School is currently working to implement such changes and effective tomorrow most employees will be teleworking where possible until April 3 i.e. Grad Office, and Undergraduate Office. In the coming days, we will be reaching out to those employees with details regarding this. Please note that the Main Office currently at this point will still be open, however the workforce will be significantly reduced due to this teleworking policy and we appreciate your patience throughout this time.

Please understand the situation is very fluid, and we encourage you stay up-to-date on the CoVid-19 Purdue Website<https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q1/need-to-know-info-about-covid-2019.html> for any potential changes/updates. We all appreciate your cooperation and effort in keeping our community safe while maintaining an exemplary work ethic through this unfortunate time. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you,
Joshua

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From: Kim, Sangtae
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 10:17 AM
To: chme at ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:chme at ecn.purdue.edu>
Cc: Corti, David S <dscorti at purdue.edu<mailto:dscorti at purdue.edu>>; Guerrero, Betty Lou <blg at purdue.edu<mailto:blg at purdue.edu>>; Nagy, Gabriela <nagyg at purdue.edu<mailto:nagyg at purdue.edu>>; Kim, Sangtae <kim55 at purdue.edu<mailto:kim55 at purdue.edu>>
Subject: Coronavirus announcement from the Provost - Telecommuting - Chemical Engineering insights

To the Purdue CHE community, please stay safe as we strive collectively to “flatten the curve” on this pandemic. They goal is to lower the peak (number of critically ill) to a level that can be managed by our healthcare infrastructure.

·         To the faculty and staff: the announcement on telecommuting/remote work by the Provost Jay Akridge and HR VP Chris Ruhl is the official endorsement of the CHE plan we enacted last week. We do our work, but in a manner that dampens transmission of the virus. On the research front, many groups already have a process in place, shared with the School (X.O. David Corti and Safety Officer Gabriela Nagy).

·         To the students: a number of excellent computer simulations are now on the internet and YouTube with data from the regions of China, Italy, and the USA to create models on the impact of isolation procedures/policy on the peak numbers. This virus is borne by micro-droplet aerosols that can enter ventilation systems. And on ceramic and stainless steel surfaces, the virus half-life is many hours if not days. Healthy but infected individuals that do not show any symptoms thus become “super-spreaders”.

·         Mass testing (supply chain issues): there are acute shortages of the reagents used by the Qiagen and Roche tests, even though the factories in Hilden, Germany and Barcelona, Spain are working around the clock. It will take some time to ramp up production in the USA (per Qiagen statement re the plant in Germantown, MD). Without the onset of large-scale testing, the duration of these self-isolation policies may be longer than the original estimates.

Again, please do you part to keep everyone safe!

  --- Sang

Sangtae Kim
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

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As all of you know, the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve very quickly. Both the spread of the virus and the responses to mitigate that spread (PK-12 school closings, day care closings, etc.) have an impact on our Purdue community. As indicated in communications last week, our campus remains open and we will be offering remote instruction until at least April 3. To assist with social distancing and to diminish transmission of the disease, we will be allowing telecommuting/remote work on a temporary basis for all positions where such work is possible, whenever such work is possible (including research functions).

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