Newsmakers | College of Liberal Arts

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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March 2022

March 18, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, associate professor of computational linguistics and language science, presented the paper “Remote early research experiences for undergraduate students in computing,” authored with Reynold Bailey, professor of computer science, and Hannah Miller, Ph.D. student in computing and information sciences, at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2022 in Providence, R.I.
March 18, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor in Economics, participated in a webinar on the feasibility of a universal basic income for Rochester that was organized by the Interfaith Impact of New York State on March 13.
March 15, 2022

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented “Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance” at Modernism Week in Palm Springs, Calif., on Feb. 22. Modernism Week’s signature February event is an annual celebration of midcentury modern design, architecture, art, fashion, and culture.
March 4, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, presented “Critical Crafting In and Beyond Humanities Classrooms: 19th-Century Material Culture and 21st-Century Open Pedagogy” during the “Crafting Communities” symposia, held Feb. 25 via Zoom and jointly organized by the University of Manitoba, University of Alberta, and University of Victoria.
March 1, 2022

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, was an invited panelist for the film series Representation in Media to discuss the film Harder They Fall. The event was hosted by the Our Voices Project, whose mission is sharing experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color through visual storytelling.
March 1, 2022

Rebecca Houston, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, recently presented on the “Electrophysiology of Human Aggression” as part of a workshop on the Neurobiology and Toxicology of Aggression at the 2022 American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting in Seattle.
March 1, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented two papers about urban crime and competition for venture capital at the annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association Feb. 19-20 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was an invited panelist for the Feb. 10 Zoom event, “The Douglass Women: Another Look at Anna Murray and Rosetta,” which was organized by 540 West Main.
February 18, 2022

Uli Linke, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, was the winner of the 2021 AMPS-UCL Press Journal Award. Linke received the award in recognition of her article “The optics of dispossession: urban precarity as political art,” which appeared in the December 2021 issue of the journal Architecture_MPS, a publication of the Architecture Media Politics Society.
February 17, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was a presenter for the Zoom event “Craft, Protest and Feminism: Disruptors Yesterday and Today,” hosted by Carpenters Hall and the National Liberty Museum on Feb. 2 in Philadelphia.