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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July 2020

  • July 23, 2020

    A paper on the effects of eye-contact in remote communication derived from a master’s thesis introduction is being cited in guides for workplace meetings and online teaching. The paper authors are Leanne Bohannon ’07 (psychology), ’10 (experimental psychology); Andrew Herbert, a professor in the Department of Psychology; Jeff Pelz, the Endowed Professorship in RIT’s Center for Imaging Science; and Esa Rantanen, associate professor in the Department of Psychology.

  • July 14, 2020

    Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, has been named a mentor for the 2019-2020 academic year for the Ecological Society of America in conjunction with the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis Project, an open education community supported by the National Science Foundation intended to increase the effectiveness of undergraduate STEM education.

  • July 5, 2020

    Cecilia O. Alm, associate professor of English, was Diversity and Inclusion co-chair with Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, research scientist at Google, for ACL 2020, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, which took place virtually July 5-10. ACL is the world’s leading venue for computational research on natural language.

June 2020

  • June 25, 2020

    Chris Ferrari, a second-year marketing and political science double major from Spencerport, N.Y., ran for the Spencerport Board of Education and finished fourth. He was 92 votes short of winning a seat on the board.

May 2020

  • May 6, 2020

    Eva Hall, a fifth-year biomedical engineering major from North Hollywood, Calif.; Nina Lentini, a fourth-year film production major from Mattituck, N.Y.; Matt Miller, a fifth-year electrical engineering major from Buffalo, N.Y.; and Jessica Visco, of Orchard Park, N.Y., who graduated in December with a degree in media arts and technology, were inducted May 6 into the National Italian Honor Society, Gamma Kappa Alpha, for excellence in Italian studies. They were nominated by Elisabetta D’Amanda, principal lecturer of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.

April 2020

  • April 28, 2020

    Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, recently published two papers: “A Brand Culture Approach to Brand Literacy: Consumer Co-creation and Emerging Chinese Luxury Brands," in the Journal of Cultural Management Research and “Branding as Soft Power: Brand Culture and the 2008 Beijing Olympics,” in the book Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds.

  • April 9, 2020

    Michael Laver, professor of history and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, published a book titled The Dutch East India Company and Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy with Bloomsbury Press.

  • April 8, 2020

    John Capps, professor of philosophy, received an honorable mention in the American Association of Philosophy Teachers’ Lenssen Prize competition for his article, “The Case for Discussion-Intensive Pedagogy.” It was one of three articles to receive an honorable mention for the 2018-2019 period.

March 2020