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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February 2022

February 17, 2022

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, won a $92,239 grant from the Sarah K. de Coizart Perpetual Charitable Trust foundation. This work will focus on assessing highway roadsides as potential habitat for threatened monarch butterflies.
February 10, 2022

Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, and Shaun Foster, associate professor of design, have been awarded a grant from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab for their project, “Ethical Issues Associated With Pervasive Eye-Tracking.”
February 8, 2022

Rebecca DeRoo, associate professor of communication and director of the visual culture program, was invited to present the opening lecture for the 60th anniversary of the International Film Series, College of Central Florida. DeRoo analyzed the groundbreaking film Cleo from 5 to 7, marking the film’s 60th anniversary.
February 1, 2022

John Edlund, professor of psychology, published “Saving Science Through Replication Studies” in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Victoria Covell, a fourth-year graphic design major; Samuel Langshteyn, a fourth-year film and animation major; and Serena Rush, a second-year psychology major, represented RIT/NTID in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and advanced to the final round of only sixteen actors. Kathryn Richer ’21 (applied arts and sciences) represented RIT/NTID in Design, Technology, and Management at the festival and received the Don Childs DTM Cross-Discipline Collaboration Award for her stage management work on last semester’s production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.
January 25, 2022

Juilee Decker, professor of history and director of the museum studies program, was awarded a Scholarly Research Fellowship at the Kentucky Historical Society to conduct research on her book Remembrance of Things Cast: Kentucky’s Monuments and Memorials in the Age of #TakeItDown.
January 20, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented two papers at the Allied Social Science Association Virtual Conference on Jan. 8 and 9, 2022.
January 18, 2022

Tamar Carroll, chair of the Department of History, joined the Board of Trustees of the National Susan B. Anthony House and Museum.
January 18, 2022

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, had his article “Marginalization of Indigenous People in Education Data Produces a False Narrative” featured in The Minority Report, an annual newsletter published by the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.
January 10, 2022

Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, and Shaun Foster, associate professor of 3D digital design, participated in the workshop “Building Human Rights Into The Metaverse” on Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, held on the AltSpace VR platform and organized by The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Access Now.