Christopher Knight’s Return to Campus Request Summary

SUBMISSION DATE: 04/05/2021
SENT TO: John Jeka 04/05/2021
Submission Number 1499
Opening Phases Phase 3
Name Christopher Knight
Academic Classification Associate Professor
PI Email caknight@udel.edu
Emergency Contact / Phone Number 3024636398
College College of Health Sciences
Department KINESIOLOGY and APPL PHYSIOLOGY
Lab/Facility STAR HEALTH SCIENCE COMPLEX
Physical Distancing and Density Requirements Room 235 in the Tower at STAR is a research laboratory that I share with Dr. Roxana Burciu, her students and staff. Her team is already approved for use of this space. I seek approval for occasional access to the lab for myself and my team of two graduate students. My team is not presently collecting data from human subjects but my students need to access laboratory equipment to develop their research protocols, obtain data files, and to collect test data from themselves for use in a graduate course.

This lab is 302 square feet in size and our two research teams will coordinate lab activities such that
a) my team members are not present during any of Dr. Burciu’s data collections with human subjects and
b) we do not exceed the 2-person maximum.

While minimizing the frequency of lab use, I also wish to provide safe opportunities for my students to diminish their feelings of isolation and being disconnected from graduate training activities and the research environment.
In addition to coordinating our lab activities through a shared google calendar, we will
1) Wear surgical mask at all times
2) Maintain physical distancing with 6 feet of spacing
3) Clean equipment and appliances we used as well as contact points throughout the space (chair arm rests, door knob etc.).
4) All lab members will take the covid-19 training prior to returning to campus and will take the daily health survey before going into the lab + have their temp checked at the front desk.

Additional team members that will need access

Madelyn Guidash

TITLE: Research Assistant, EMAIL: mguidash@udel.edu, CONTACT: , LAB/FACILITY: STAR HEALTH SCIENCE COMPLEX, RM# The Tower at STAR, 235

Rebecca Daniels

TITLE: Research Assistant, EMAIL: rdaniels@udel.edu, CONTACT: , LAB/FACILITY: STAR HEALTH SCIENCE COMPLEX, RM# The Tower at Star, 235

Department Chair John Jeka
Department Chair Email jjeka@udel.edu
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