Newsmakers

July 21, 2022

Juilee Decker, professor; Tamar Carroll, department chair; and Rebecca Edwards, professor, all in the Department of History, along with students and alumni from the museum studies program, attended the training program “Let’s Talk About Race,” led by Cheyney McKnight of Not Your Momma’s History, on June 16. This opportunity was made possible through the partnership between RIT and Genesee Country Village & Museum.

July 8, 2022

Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, professors in the Department of Philosophy, hosted the fifth annual international conference of the Society for Italian Philosophy (SIP) June 9-11. The conference, held virtually, opened with remarks from Vincenzo Scollo, the Italian Honorary Consul in Rochester, and was made possible in part through funding from James Myers, associate provost for international education and global studies. Featured keynote speakers were internationally renowned Italian philosophers Adriana Cavarero and Roberto Esposito.

July 7, 2022

Richard Newman, professor in the Department of History, was featured on the Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions Podcast discussing abolitionism, a global human rights movement during the 18th and 19th centuries aimed at ending slavery in the Atlantic world.

June 16, 2022

Joseph Henning, associate professor in the Department of History, received Honorable Mention for the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for his 2021 book Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire. The prize recognizes outstanding collections of primary source materials in the fields of international or diplomatic history, especially those distinguished by the inclusion of commentary designed to interpret the documents and set them within their historical context.

June 9, 2022

Katrina M. Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, and Francesca A. Williamson, Indiana University School of Medicine, co-authored “Breaking bread with storyworlding methodology: Black feminist/womanist commentary on unearthing communal lifeworlds,” published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Using a friendship as method approach, the authors engage in reflexive dialogue about storyworlding methodology and consider the transformative possibilities of this methodology and the new lines of inquiry it can create within the critical qualitative inquiry community.

June 9, 2022

The RIT/NTID Performing Arts production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, directed by Andy Head, assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts, received a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award at the 2022 KCACTF National Award Ceremony on May 21. The award “recognizes programs in higher education using theatrical production to promote long-term societal impact through an artistic lens, to encourage empathetic exploration of the complex cultural and physical world, and to advocate for justice on campus and throughout the world.” The production was also recognized with special achievement awards in production and performance ensemble unity, projection design, sound design, and lighting design.

May 27, 2022

Amitrajeet Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor in Economics, has been selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association. Distinguished Fellows have outstanding records of scholarship, service to the profession, and participation within the association in the advancement of regional analysis and related fields of study.

May 20, 2022

Duygu Akdevelioglu, assistant professor in the Department of MIS, Marketing and Analytics, Saunders College of Business, and Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, published “Stakeholders as Value Creators: The Role of Multi-Level Networks in Employee Wellness Programs” in the Journal of Macromarketing. The authors studied the RIT Wellness Center to explore value creation in multi-layered stakeholder networks in the context of employee wellness programs and marketization of wellness.

May 10, 2022

Sungmin Shin, adjunct faculty in the Department of Performing Arts, was invited for engagements this semester at several institutions nationally to present solo recitals and guitar master classes. Schools he visited include University at Buffalo, Eastman School of Music, University of South Carolina, University of Louisville, and Shenandoah University. He also presented clinics for nationally recognized guitar programs at Riverside High School in Loudon Country, Va., and Youth Performing Arts Magnet High School in Louisville, Ky.

May 4, 2022

Two psychology students from the College of Liberal Arts presented research at the annual Western New York Psychology Undergraduate Conference held at the University at Buffalo on April 9. Olivia Bo Allaby presented on “Early Pandemic Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Adults at High vs. Low Risk for COVID-19,” mentored by associate professors Rebecca Houston and Stephanie Godleski, and psychology department chair Joseph Baschnagel. Kaitlin Gunther presented on “Color is a Salient Cue for Goldfish Discriminating between 3D Stimuli Rotated in the Picture and Depth Planes,” mentored by Professor Caroline DeLong.