Newsmakers

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Newsmakers

Highlighting the professional and academic accomplishments of College of Liberal Arts students, faculty, and staff.

Newsmakers are a quick and easy way to acknowledge the professional and academic accomplishments of RIT students, faculty, and staff, such as publishing an article in a scholarly journal, presenting research at a conference, serving on a panel discussion, earning a scholarship, or winning an award. Newsmakers appear in News and Events as well as the "In the News" section on faculty/staff directory profile pages.

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December 2024

  • December 2, 2024

    Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, received the 2024 Dr. Molefi K. Asante Award from the National Communication Association. This award recognizes Gordon’s exceptional contributions to publishing scholarship advancing Black studies in the field of communication.

November 2024

  • November 19, 2024

    Erica Haskell, school director; Andy Head, assistant professor; Alexa Scott-Flaherty, senior lecturer; Thomas Warfield, Professor of Practice; and Ben Willmott, director of operations and administration for the School of Performing Arts, presented “Building a Performing Arts Ecosystem in a STEM-Focused Institution” during the a2ru conference on Nov. 14 at RIT. The panel explored the challenges and successes of establishing a campuswide performing arts ecosystem and scholarship program.

  • November 15, 2024

    Kelly Feke, a fourth-year computational mathematics major and environmental science minor, published a letter to the editor on Cleveland.com on Nov. 13. The letter was part of a course assignment in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

  • November 15, 2024

    Amit Ray, associate professor in the Department of English, presented "Scaling Ignorance: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), Agnotology, and Ecology" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Dallas. His paper delved into GAI's proprietary frameworks, ecological impacts, and its role in producing cultural ignorance through opaque practices.

  • November 14, 2024

    Saige Moon Bock, a print and graphic media technology and psychology double major, and Isabella Marino, a 3D digital design major, received this year’s Blizzard Albany scholarships, which help support students in degree programs related to game design and development while also promoting diversity and inclusion in the field. Bock won the In It Together scholarship, a “reflection of the game studio’s commitment to quality and passion.” Marino won the Pathfinders scholarship, awarded to a student who “inspires others, is never satisfied, and embraces failures as lessons learned.”  

  • November 8, 2024

    Elena Sommers, principal lecturer in the Department of English, presented “My Students’ Lolita Jury Duty: Teaching with Reader-Response Theory” at the International Vladimir Nabokov Society’s Education Without Borders Conference on Nov. 1 at Cornell University. Sommers shared insights from her book, Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era.