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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November 2024

  • November 15, 2024

    Kelly Feke, a fourth-year computational mathematics major and environmental science minor, published a letter to the editor on Cleveland.com on Nov. 13. The letter was part of a course assignment in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

  • November 15, 2024

    Amit Ray, associate professor in the Department of English, presented "Scaling Ignorance: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), Agnotology, and Ecology" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Dallas. His paper delved into GAI's proprietary frameworks, ecological impacts, and its role in producing cultural ignorance through opaque practices.

  • November 14, 2024

    Saige Moon Bock, a print and graphic media technology and psychology double major, and Isabella Marino, a 3D digital design major, received this year’s Blizzard Albany scholarships, which help support students in degree programs related to game design and development while also promoting diversity and inclusion in the field. Bock won the In It Together scholarship, a “reflection of the game studio’s commitment to quality and passion.” Marino won the Pathfinders scholarship, awarded to a student who “inspires others, is never satisfied, and embraces failures as lessons learned.”  

  • November 8, 2024

    Elena Sommers, principal lecturer in the Department of English, presented “My Students’ Lolita Jury Duty: Teaching with Reader-Response Theory” at the International Vladimir Nabokov Society’s Education Without Borders Conference on Nov. 1 at Cornell University. Sommers shared insights from her book, Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era.

  • November 4, 2024

    Juilee Decker, director of the museum studies program, and Roger Easton Jr., professor in the College of Science, co-chaired the “Imaging Science for Cultural Heritage” session at the Great Scientific Exchange on Oct. 24 in Raleigh, N.C. Additionally, Easton presented “Cultural Heritage Imaging: A Personal View” and Decker presented “Illuminating the Medieval and the Modern through Cultural Heritage Imaging,” which was co-authored by David Messinger, professor in the College of Science. Together, Decker, Easton, and Messinger co-direct RIT’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Lab.

  • November 4, 2024

    Shay Ryan Olmstead, lecturer in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, presented “Deconstructing ‘The [Cis] State’: New Potentials for Queer and Trans Legal Histories” at the American Society for Legal History 2024 Annual Meeting on Oct. 25. Their panel, “Mobilizing Law for LGBTQ+ Justice in the 1960s and 1970s,” featured discussions with legal scholars and practitioners on new directions in queer legal history.

  • November 4, 2024

    Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, delivered his talk “On Midcentury Vinyl and Cultural History” at the History Center of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff on Oct. 24 in Lake Forest, Ill. The event, in conjunction with the exhibit “Modern in the Midcentury,” was supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.