(1) To familiarize myself with current data and approaches to minimize COVID-19 transmission, I enrolled in a six-hour contact tracing course offered by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and reviewed laboratory policies from the CDC and other Universities (2) To supplement university guidelines, we developed detailed guidelines to support research and teaching in Biosciences and Brooks (3) Using Microsoft Teams, we field questions from faculty and graduate students and contact university officials and/or review current research and CDC guidelines to provide recommendations