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Buses and shuttles will begin operating Friday, Aug. 22. All Bio Buses will resume a normal schedule at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26. 

Dozens of members of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community gathered at the edge of Lake Mary Nell to remember university automotive mechanic Ed Watkins.

University staff recently installed solar panels on a cart used by grounds crews to extend the distance they can travel between battery charges while reducing operational expenses.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert and Student Government Association President Joe Incorvia offered gratitude Tuesday to dozens of employees who worked around the clock this year to keep the university running at the height of winter storms.

The campus community gathered Tuesday morning in the Numen Lumen Pavilion to celebrate the life of Ed Watkins, an auto mechanic who died April 18 while fishing with a friend from Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Physical Plant.

Workers spent Tuesday morning planting a tree in a campus grove known as Under the Oaks after a winter ice storm last month led to the removal of a tree that predated Â鶹ÊÓƵ's founding.

Due to Spring Break, all Bio Buses, except for the Downtown/East Burlington Route, will stop service on Friday, March 21 at 5:00pm.  

With power back to residence halls, workers are focusing efforts on debris removal, tree trimming and building repairs after ice and snow wreaked havoc on what was scheduled to be one of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s busiest weekends of the spring.