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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April 2023

  • April 20, 2023

    Karen “Ren” vanMeenen, senior lecturer in the Department of English, presented “Using Graphic Novels to Enhance Social Emotional Learning” for Rochester School District elementary faculty and staff on April 12.

  • April 13, 2023

    Bruce Austin, professor in the School of Communication, authored “The First Traveling Art Exhibition,” published in Western New York Heritage (Spring, 2023). The essay is based on research conducted for his book A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley’s 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions (RIT Press, 2022).

  • April 7, 2023

    Yuhan Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures, gave a talk about “Literature in the Age of #MeToo: Retelling Sexual Violence in Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise and its Reception,” for the Chinese Studies Colloquium at Purdue University on March 20.

  • April 7, 2023

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented papers about centralized vs. decentralized water pollution control in the Ganges, optimal mask wearing in office environments, and strategic competition between vaccine-producing firms, in the annual conference of the Southern Regional Science Association in Savannah, Ga., March 31-April 1.

  • April 6, 2023

    Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, was an invited keynote speaker and panelist at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media's conference on Integrated Marketing Communications on March 30-31 in Oxford, Miss.

March 2023

  • March 31, 2023

    Eric Hittinger, associate professor in the Department of Public Policy, and Eric Williams, professor in the Department of Sustainability, were recently awarded a $265,000 National Science Foundation grant for a research project titled “CAS-Climate: Linking Activities, Expenditures and Energy Use into an Integrated Systems Model to Understand and Predict Energy Futures.” This is part of a collaborative project with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology that is focused on understanding the large-scale interactions between behavior and energy use across the United States, with the goal of answering questions about the energy system implications of trends like telework, online shopping, or increased urban density.

  • March 31, 2023

    Rebecca Houston, professor of psychology, mentored four psychology students who presented their research at the annual Eastern Psychological Association meeting March 2-4 in Boston. Olivia Bo Allaby presented her work on cognitive reserve, aging, executive functioning, and memory; Finn Cohen presented his research on emotion regulation and Cluster B personality disorders; Romiere Horace presented his research on gender, moral emotions, and trauma; and Jeremiah Ramkissoon presented his work on internet-related addictions, impulsivity, gender, and socioeconomic status.