The COVID Research Solutions for Campus Webinar Series highlights how the most up-to-date research is shaping campus operations during the pandemic. This series features some of CU Boulder’s top researchers working side-by-side with our exceptional campus operations experts. Sessions will be hosted by Terri Fiez, vice chancellor for research and innovation, and pose questions that allow our experts to highlight how this collaboration is putting the most advanced research into practice.
Webinar #1: Aerosols, HVAC, Buildings & Classrooms (August 6, 2020)
Panelists

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Professor, Chemistry; Institute Fellow, CIRES

Shelly Miller
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Environmental Engineering Program

Chris Ewing
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Facilities Management; Campus Planning, Design & Construction

Shannon Horn
Mechanical Engineer, Facilities Management

Terri Fiez
Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
- We need to talk about ventilation (The Atlantic: interviews CU experts and others, intro for general public)
- How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimized? (Shelly Miller: May 1, 2020)
- 14 min. interview with Colorado Public Ratio on aerosol transmission of COVID-19 (Jose-Luis Jimenez: August 3, 2020)
- Harvard-CU Boulder portable air cleaner calculator for schools.v1 (Shelly Miller: August 4, 2020)
- Coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets – here’s the science of infectious aerosols (Shelly Miller: August 24, 2020)
- A hopefully helpful short report on air cleaners (Shelly Miller: June 15, 2020)
- Intro to the COVID-19 aerosol transmission estimator (Jose-Luis Jimenez: July 22, 2020)
- COVID-19 room-level aerosol transmission estimator (Jose-Luis Jimenez)
- Why the arguments against aerosol transmission don’t hold water (Jose-Luis Jimenez: July 30, 2020)
- How to quantify the ventilation rate of an indoor space using an affordable CO2 monitor (Jose-Luis Jimenez: July 31, 2020)
- CU Boulder infrastructure mitigation efforts
- How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised? (Jose-Luis Jimenez, Shelly Miller and colleagues)
Webinar #2: Epidemiology, Monitoring and Awareness (August 10, 4–5:15 p.m.)
Panelists

Daniel Larremore
Assistant Professor, Computer Science (BioFrontiers Institute)

Matthew McQueen
Associate Professor, Integrative Physiology (Institute of Behavioral Genetics)

Katherine Erwin
Chief Human Resources Officer, Strategic Resources and Support

Jon Leslie
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Strategic Communications

JB Banks
Associate Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs; Dean of Students

Terri Fiez
Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
- The COVID-19 Testing Group (Daniel Larremore, with collaborators at Harvard and Northeastern University)
- Coronavirus control measures aren’t pointless – just slowing down the pandemic could save millions of lives (Matthew McQueen, The Conversation: March 11, 2020)
Webinar #3: Health Assessment, Surveillance & Testing (August 12, 12–1:15 p.m.)
Panelists

Cresten Mansfeldt
Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering; Environmental Engineering Program

Sara Sawyer
Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Jennifer McDuffie
Associate Vice Chancellor, Division of Student Affairs

Terri Fiez
Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
- New COVID-19 test returns results in 45 minutes, without nasal swab (July 22, 2020)
- Daily Health Questionnaire & Illness Reporting (Forms, Information and Resources)
- Campus Q&A—Health Assessment: Video and transcript (July 9, 2020)
- A community-deployable SARS-CoV-2 screening test using raw saliva with 45 minutes sample-to-results turnaround (Pre-print article, not yet peer reviewed)
- CSTE COVID-19 Sewage Surveillance Webinar (July 8, 2020)