As Emporia State prepares to reopen its campus in August, congregated living is a particular health concern.

Emporia State students, employees, vendors and visitors will all be required to wear face coverings in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the coming academic year.

Emporia State answered questions about race and police brutality during a Friday morning Zoom meeting led by Aswad Allen, ESU’s chief diversity officer.

A conversation surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent death of George Flyod will be hosted by Aswad Allen, Emporia State’s chief diversity officer, over Zoom. The call starts at 11:30 p.m. this Friday and will be open to all/students and faculty. 

As Emporia State prepares to reopen later this summer masks will be provided to faculty and staff, President Allison Garrett said during Monday’s virtual town hall. With 180 attendees, this was the first town hall administration plans to hold to keep the ESU community apprised of the coronav…

A virtual Town Hall meeting will be held Monday to discuss the future of Emporia State in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an email Thursday, President Allison Garrett also announced that in-person classes will resume this fall.

As a number of businesses are forced to close their doors, some students continue to fulfill essential jobs amidst coronavirus concerns.  

As Emporia receives 500 testing kits and three analyzers from Abbot laboratories, new clusters of positive cases for COVID-19 have been identified in Tyson, Simmons, Hostess and Detroit Diesel.

As the global coronavirus pandemic forces school and business closures across the world, Lyon County and Emporia have continued to work together as a community to provide for its healthcare services.

County officials announced that Lyon County would be under a stay-at-home order as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday morning in a Facebook live stream on Wednesday. The order is effective for 30 days, until April 25.

Although Lyon County may be under a stay-at-home order by as early as Tuesday, so far county officials say no such order has been issued.

From Flint Hills Community Health Center:

Council Grove has confirmed their first two positive cases of COVID-19 earlier this week in a press release from Morris County Hospital.

Emporia State will be closing the dorms by April 1. The announcement came late Tuesday afternoon, following Gov. Laura Kelly's announcement that K-12 schools will be closed and classes remain online through the end of the semester.

The Bulletin has suspended it's print publication until the current health emergency is over, but the website will continue to be updated with stories about campus and the region.

The Topeka Capital-Journal is reporting that three more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Johnson County, bringing the total to 11 confirmed cases in Kansas.

Local healthcare and emergency response professionals were invited to talk about the novel coronavirus and the towns response plan Friday morning by local radio station KVOE, 1400 AM or 96.9 FM.

Hours before Kansas recorded its first coronavirus death and the governor declared a state of emergency, Emporia State announced a plan on Thursday to help fight the spread of the disease by extending spring break and moving classes online.

From March 16-20, all face-to-face classes are canceled because of COVID-19. Classes will resume online only starting March 23 until further notice.

The Prophet Aquatic Research and Outreach Center is being built north of Emporia State, next to King Lake and campus woods. PAROC will have more than just a few classrooms and laboratory spaces for students. 

The newly revised Emporia State chapter of the Kansas National Educators Association (KNEA) hosted its first event of the semester in Visser hall with sweet treats and a presentation to potential members. 

With voting for members of associated student government slated to take place March 3-5, online and throughout campus, and the first readings of the line item budget proposals, the third ASG meeting of the semester brought in onlookers and RSO representatives. 

Jim Harris will make his directorial debut at Emporia State with “Death by Design,” which Harris describes as a “who-done-it,” comedy. The play will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 26-29 in the Karl C. Bruder theater. 

William Wilburn stood sweating Wednesday afternoon over hundreds of gallons of water boiling in a huge vat in the kitchen of the Sodexo cafeteria in the Memorial Union. His perspiration wasn’t from nerves, but from boiling water for the 60 seconds required by the Kansas Department of Health …

Only one pair of students is currently running for Associated Student Government president and vice-president. Candidate Brayden Soper, sophomore political science major, is running with Amaya Oshel, junior sociology major. 

Emporia State is planning to join other MIAA schools in serving alcohol at football games. A taskforce has been put together to explore the different potentials for problems and advantages.

Emporia State has added a plug-in to Canvas systems called Blackboard Ally to further promote accessibility throughout Emporia State.

With blood drives yesterday and from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. today in the Skyline room, I have been consistently reminded to donate given the need for O positive blood.

“Vampire virgins,” meet every Tuesday night, typically after dark, in the fourth floor of Plumb Hall. Their practices are safe but can be nauseating. 

Every other December, a handful of students visit the home of the San Salvador Rock Iguana with David McKenzie, biology professor, to experience field ecology. During the last trip, one of the iguanas was killed.