Editor’s note: This story has been updated with information about a party the professor attended.

A Rutgers professor at the New Brunswick campus has tested positive for the coronavirus, the university announced Sunday morning — the first known case in the state university system.

In an email to students, faculty and staff, Antonio Calcado, Rutgers’ executive vice president and chief operating officer wrote that a biomedical engineering professor was exposed to the virus at “a non-Rutgers location” in late February and is currently self-isolating. The professor’s test came back Saturday night, Calcado wrote.

NJ Advance Media obtained a copy of the Rutgers email and a university official confirmed the test result.

Rutgers spokeswoman Dory Devlin confirmed that the professor attended a private party in Princeton on Feb. 29, where 14 residents were later asked to self-isolate following exposure to the virus. Two people from the Boston area were also at the event and tested positive after returning home, Princeton health officials previously said.

Following the professor’s exposure, but before he began self-isolating, he was in contact with a number of people at Rutgers, Calcado said. Those people have been identified, notified and asked to self-isolate. Calcado said the professor has “the full support” of the university and its Occupational Health Department.

The professor had come into contact with two students and “a limited number” of faculty and staff, Devlin wrote in an email.

Calcado also said Rutgers’ Biomedical Engineering Building on the Busch campus, in Piscataway, is “being cleaned and disinfected in accordance with CDC guidelines,” with a focus on often-touched surfaces.

“In a community of nearly 100,000 students, faculty and staff, it is reasonable to expect that this is only the first of several incidents of COVID-19 that will involve members of our community,” Calcado wrote. “I expect that each member of our university community will continue to support one another during this health crisis.”

Rutgers students, faculty and staff are advised to practice social distancing, good hygiene and “use common sense and good judgment,” Calcado wrote.

More information about how Rutgers is responding to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus can be found on its coronavirus website, Calcado wrote.

Previously, the university told faculty and staff they could telecommute “wherever feasible." The university also said last week it is expanding its paid time-off policies in response to the outbreak.

All Rutgers campuses currently remain open. Spring break was extended and some classes are now online-only, according to the university’s website.

For Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick students:

Classes are cancelled from Thursday, March 12, through the end of spring break on Sunday, March 22.

After that, starting Monday, March 23, all classes will be only online through at least Friday, April 3.

Students are also “strongly encouraged” to remain off campus through April 3.

And for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Science students:

Starting Monday, March 16, all RBHS classes with more than 15 participants will be provided remotely. However, no changes are being made to clinical rotations or instruction.

“I want to thank everyone who has been working to respond to the presence of COVID-19 in our community and throughout New Jersey,” Calcado wrote. “These are understandably difficult times and have required all of us to exercise conscientious behavior and compassion toward one another.”

Follow the CDC website for more and updated information. For coverage of coronavirus in New Jersey, follow www.nj.com/coronavirus.

J. Dale Shoemaker is a reporter on the data & investigations team. He can be reached at jshoemaker@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JDale_Shoemaker.