Honors COVID-19 Symposium
Transformative Resiliency Building: Multi-Disciplinary Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
On February 26, the Honors Program hosted its first symposium in the spring semester, in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The Transformative resiliency building: Multi-disciplinary responses to the Covid-19 pandemic symposium, which was part of the Race and Equity Symposium, brought together Syracuse University researchers from different disciplines in a showcase of current and ongoing research on COVID-19. It provided a space for faculty, students and alumni across disciplinary boundaries to re-envision our society and to imagine how we can continue to build a more just and equitable society during COVID-19 and in its aftermath. The presentations were organized in three panels focusing on the themes of wastewater surveillance, health security and environmental research.
Symposium Schedule:
9:00 Opening Remarks
Dr. Ramesh Raina, Professor, College of Arts and Sciences and Interim Vice President for Research
9:05 – 10:30 am Panel 1: Wastewater Surveillance and Testing
Panel Moderator: Rick Burton, David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management, Falk College
Presenters
Brittany Kmush, Assistant Professor, Public Health, Falk College
- Scalable, Fast and Accurate SARS-COV-2 Wastewater Monitoring
David Larsen, Associate Professor, Public Health, Falk College
- The Science of Wastewater Surveillance: Building Interdisciplinary Teams to Address Problems
Aishwarya Chaya Raj, MS, Information Management, Patrick Prioletti, MS, Applied Data Science, Anishka Tahiliani, MS, Information Management, School of Information Studies
- The Importance of Resilient Cloud: Performance under Pressure of COVID-19
10:45 – 12:00 pm Panel 2: Health Security
Panel Moderator: Nardia Lipman, MA Candidate, Department of African American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Presenters
Vivian Yang, Advertising and Marketing (2024), Newhouse School and Whitman School
- A Renewed Vision: Racial Disparities in COVID-19
Haejoo Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
- Medical Liberty: A Historical Perspective
Samuel Gorovitz, Professor, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
- Ventilators, Guidelines, Judgment, and Trust
Danielle Smith, Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program
- Health Security: Consolidating Health Gains during Covid-19
12:15 – 1:30 pm Panel 3: Environmental Research
Panel Moderator: Danielle Smith, Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program
Presenters
Betania Allo, Vice President of Global Accounts, NSION Technologies, Inc.
- Applying NSC3 Platform to Emergency COVID-19 Response
Eric Schiff, Professor, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences and Executive Director, Syracuse Center of Excellence
- Post-pandemic Changes in Building Design and Retrofit: A Focus on Communities with Poor Housing
Jensen Zhang, Professor, College of Engineering & Computer Science
- Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Strategies Can Help to Reduce the Risk of Infection
Lee W. McKnight, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
- Mobilizing Rights: Early Warning Technologies and Community Resiliency by Design
1:30 pm Closing Remarks
Danielle Smith, Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program
