Abdullah al Faruque, associate professor in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology, is being honored with the 2022 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty.
Students taking the Senior Capstone in Math were tasked with analyzing coronavirus policy this spring
Fifteen seniors who took the Senior Capstone in Math course this spring put their modeling skills to the test to help officials evaluate past coronavirus policies and predict future outcomes. At the end of the semester, the students presented the results to their clients, Jennifer Schneider, the Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety, and Suronda Gonzalez, executive director of Upstate New York College Collaboration.
Mathematical modeling has been a powerful tool for policymakers grappling with COVID-19 to help predict how targeted actions can impact the rates of infections, minimize the risk of exposures, increase recovery rates, and much more. Fifteen seniors who took the Senior Capstone in Math course this spring put their modeling skills to the test to help o
Tiger Testing is a sign of the times and a key strategy in RIT’s COVID-19 response.
The success of RIT’s Tiger Testing campaign is made possible by campus-wide collaborations involving more than 100 employees working behind the scenes to support RIT’s COVID-19 response.
Information and Technology Services Project Management Office and RIT Athletics are two of many departments that have helped the university create a safe environment during the coronavirus pandemic by facilitating high-volume testing this spring. Their efforts have enabled RIT leadership to monitor and mitigate COVID-19 on campus.
Nearly 13,000 students were tested by the end of the fall semester. In contrast, this spring, RIT has tested weekly the entire on-campus student body, or approximately 10,000 students, with a 95 percent compliance rate. This past weekend, RIT topped 100,000 tests administered on campus since January, according to Dr. Wendy Gelbard, RIT associate vice president of Wellness.