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Grad School in the Time of COVID: What's been happening the last few months

Now returning after an unplanned three month hiatus, this short research presentation will be an overview of what has happened over the months since my last power, and a quick glance at where this project is heading over the next several.  Dave, if you can get the lights, oh, and does anyone have an HDMI cord so I can connect my laptop to the projector?  As I mentioned in my last post, just short of three months ago, we had transitioned to online classes, and were starting to get information about our qualifying exam.  At about the same time, most of our labs shut down, or were reduced to critical employees.  By definition, 1st year grad students doing rotations were not critical employees (although a couple of labs side stepped their way around that).  This obviously threw a kink in a lot of plans.  We usually do three rotations, and from those choose a lab to do our thesis work in.  The third rotation just didn't happen.  Now, by this point,...