COVID-19 Resources for Graduate Students
Below is a list of resources that might be useful during COVID-19. This is not an exhaustive list of resources, but a list of resources to the most immediate needs or to help you be successful remotely.
Join other graduate students and Graduate School staff for twice-weekly, informal "Chit Chats"! You can access them at this link. See below for the schedule of dates and times.
- University of Louisville Resources
- City of Louisville Resources
- Wellness
- Connect Virtually
- Professional Development
- Virtual Classes
- Virtual Tours and Museums
- Tour National Parks to National Landmarks
- Animal Webcams
- More Fun Things to Do
- More Family Activities
University of Louisville Resources
- University of Louisville Student Success Resources, including campus services
- Women’s Center COVID-19 Resources
- LGBT Center COVID-19 Resourcescan be found off their main page
- Campus Health Center
- On-Campus Food Pantry
- Counseling Center
- Graduate School Emergency Fund
- Student Affairs Emergency Fund
- Where to get food and other resources in Louisville during the COVID-19 outbreak
- City of Louisville on-going information about COVID-19
- List of farmer’s markets that include farmers that may have farm shares
- Loss of income
- Medicaid + SNAP
- University of Louisville Health Promotion will be leading live 10-minute guided relaxation practice from their Instagram Account every weekday at 2pm.
- The PhDBalance Instagram Account is a great community for supporting graduate students
- UofL Graduate Student - Graduate School "Chit Chats" are informal opportunities to connect virtually. Join one of our twice-weekly chats here.
- April 2020 Dates: Monday, April 6, 2pm-3pm; Wednesday, April 8, 7am-8am; Tuesday, April 14, 9:30pm-10:30pm; Thursday, April 16, 12pm-1pm; Monday, April 20, 5pm-6pm; Thursday, April 23, 2pm-3pm; Monday, April 27, 7am-8am; Tuesday, April 28, 2pm-3pm
- 450 free courses online right now
- Take an online course with Coursera
- Work on your ImaginePhD
- Download over 300,000 books from the New York Public Library for free
- There’s still time to sign up for the New GradCard Professional Development Newsletter!
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems! Join Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence at Home for a live daily doodle lesson at 11:00am MST. Videos will be available after live on the Kennedy Center YouTube channel.
- Join the McHarper Manor weekdays on Facebook for a daily art project tutorial. Art projects will range from watercolor paintings to chalk art to canvas painting and will take place live at 11:00am MST. Videos will be available after the live class on the McHarper Manor Facebook page.
- Missing group fitness classes or going to the gym? University of Louisville online gaming club and livestreamed fitness classes. Additionally, Get Healthy Now will be offering virtual group fitness classes Mon-Fri at 12:00pm and 5:30pm. The classes will take place on Zoom, you can download Zoom for free at https://zoom.us/signup . The Zoom link will be posted daily on our GHN Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ULghn. You can also check out the Planet Fitness Facebook page for live-streamed daily workouts several times a day. Is Yoga more your thing? Check out CorePower Yoga to keep up your practice from the comfort of your living room.
- For an introduction to mindfulness meditation that you can practice on your own, visit UCLA Health for downloadable guided meditations in both English and Spanish.
- The Louvre
- National Gallery of Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
- Van Gogh Museum
- National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
- British Museum
Tour National Parks to National Landmarks
- Go on a virtual field trip to Ellis Island
- Take a live look at Colonial Williamsburg
- Tour England through this 360 video
- Virtually discover Yellowstone National Park and 5 other National Parks thanks to virtual reality (and Google)!
- Talk a walk on the Great Wall of China
- Check out the view from Pompeii through Google Maps
- Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover
- San Diego Zoo
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
- Atlanta’s Zoo Panda Cam
- Georgia Aquarium
- Ouwehand Park Polar Bears
- Explore Live Cams
- Cincinnati Zoo
- Check out the 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2018
- Missing March Madness? Join CSI on Instagram for some March Madness fun of our own, Disney edition, everyday through our stories.
- Have a Netflix Party with friends while watching your favorite shows together!
- Choose from 15 Broadway plays and musicals that you can watch on stage from home. Musical television more your thing? Check out this list of 11 Musical TV Shows to binge watch while you’re home, in between your remote classes of course!
- Create a collaborative playlist with your friends or jam out to Rita Wilson’s Quarantunes playlist.
- Take up a new hobby such as making towel animals, crocheting, or choose from thousands of other tutorial videos on YouTube.
- Watch an Opera for free with the Metropolitan Opera
- Listen to a live recording from the Seattle Symphony
- Complete the Census
- Print off a free printable coloring page from the “Color Our Collections” campaign with coloring sheets from over 100 museums and libraries from around the world.
- Build a theme park with this Disney and Khan Academy collaboration for “Imagineering in a Box”
- Start your garden with a Rapid Response Victory Garden
- Free printable Disney coloring pages.
- A Principal’s list of things do during closures.
- Practical life indoor ideas for kids
- Playful Learning resources
- Crowd-sourced list of ideas for engagement with kids, including free and reduced resources online
- Education companies offering free subscriptions and resources
- Supporting individuals with Autism through uncertain times
Many thanks to the University of Colorado Boulder Center for Student Involvement for serving as a model!
If you have additional resources you think would be useful, please contact Dr. Michelle Rodems (michelle.rodems@louisville.edu).