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April 13, 2020
RIT Rallies: Alumnus creates template for communities to manage COVID-19
Nick Giordano, who graduated from RIT in 2016 with a degree in management information systems, has created a website template that helps communities track and manage the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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April 13, 2020
RIT student Emily Mahoney awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Emily Mahoney, a third-year chemistry student from Cazenovia, N.Y., is one of 396 students nationwide named 2020-2021 Goldwater Scholars. The award is based on academic merit and research experience, and virtually all intend to obtain a Ph.D. as their highest degree.
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April 13, 2020
Assistant Professor Michael Murdoch earns NSF CAREER award
Michael Murdoch, an assistant professor of color science, received a prestigious National Science Foundation award to research how the human visual system perceives a mix of augmented reality and real-world content.
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April 13, 2020
RIT Ambulance, FMS convert van to transport students in quarantine on campus
As the majority of students moved out of residence housing because of CV-19, several remained behind in quarantine. To ease their temporary stay and to provide better access to services needed, most were moved to different campus accommodations by an FMS van refitted by members of the RIT Ambulance group and Facilities Management Services.
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April 12, 2020
RIT Rallies: Alumni group develops low-cost emergency ventilator
In early March, RIT alumnus Corey Mack ’11 (mechanical engineering technology) received an email from the U.S. Department of Defense asking start-ups and entrepreneurs to build emergency ventilators for under $300. Within a few days, his idea became a design that complied closely with the required pieces of emergency ventilators.
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April 10, 2020
RIT alumnus spearheading field hospitals in New York City
Dr. Christopher Tanski, who graduated from RIT in 2000, is overseeing every medical professional treating coronavirus patients on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort and at the Javits Convention Center field hospital in New York City. Tanski, who started on April 9, is an attending physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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April 10, 2020
Message from RIT President Munson: The CARES Act
Legislation recently passed by the U.S. Congress, and signed into law by the President, will provide important relief to RIT and other higher education institutions in New York State impacted by the educational and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 9, 2020
RIT brings expertise to bear on medical device needs
Rochester Business Journal talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about a prototype for an emergency portable ventilator.
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April 8, 2020
RIT president discusses university status, near future, on WITR
During a 45-minute question and answer radio show, President Munson discussed the current climate and campus as well as the future, including the 2020 commencement.
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April 8, 2020
RIT FoodShare open for request and pickup service for those in need
People needing food may still turn to RIT’s FoodShare, which is now offering request and pickup service from 3 to 7 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday through May 7.
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April 8, 2020
RIT Rallies: Dining donating hundreds of meals to front-line medical personnel
With fewer people eating on campus due to alternative delivery of coursework, RIT Dining has decided to serve a different customer. They’re sending packaged meals to Rochester Regional Health, the university’s affiliated partner, to serve its workers who are helping our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 8, 2020
RIT/NTID wins coveted prize to create accessible books as part of global reading initiative
NTID is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s books in languages children use and understand to serve regions of the world where children have few or no books for preschool or kindergarten.