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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April 2024

April 29, 2024

Jeffrey Wagner, professor of economics, presented “The Economics of Sustainable Space Waste Management” at The Business of Space 2024 Conference: Economics, Commerce, and Sustainability of New Space, at The University of Alabama in Huntsville on April 23. Wagner’s talk was based on the chapter he contributed to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the ‘New’ Space Economy.
April 29, 2024

Marjorie Prokosch, assistant professor of psychology, won best faculty talk at the Northeastern Evolutionary Society’s Annual Conference on April 20 for the presentation, “Hierarchies and Hazards: Examining the Links Between Formidability, Worldview, and Beliefs About Disasters and Climate.”
April 26, 2024

Caroline DeLong, professor of psychology; Anna Sofia Hege, a first-year graduate student in the experimental psychology master’s degree program; and Logan Brownell, a fourth-year psychology major, presented posters at the 31st annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, April 11-12 in Albuquerque, N.M. The posters focused on research on cognitive abilities in olive baboons, goldfish, and otters. Several undergraduate students contributed including Isabel Hanick-Herman, McKenzie Wolfe, and Victoria Curtis, as well as RIT alumnae Jessica Wegman and Katie Becker.
April 26, 2024

The research of Christine Keiner, chair of the Science, Technology, and Society department, was featured in A Passion for Oysters, a documentary that aired on Maryland Public Television on April 24, as part of its 20th annual Chesapeake Bay Week programming.
April 25, 2024

Amit Batabyal, Distinguished Professor, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented a webinar on sustainable technologies to faculty and students at Sri Sri University in Cuttack, India, on April 18.
April 22, 2024

Tamar Carroll, professor and chair of the Department of History, presented “Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak and LGBTQ Workplace Rights in the 1990s” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April 11 in New Orleans. The paper examines the use of portrait photography to promote LGBTQ rights and inclusion in the workplace.
April 22, 2024

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy, had a translation of Italian philosopher Elena Pulcini’s volume, Between Care and Justice: The Passions as Social Resource, published in the SUNY Press series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy. The volume addresses two fundamental questions: Why care for others when we are not bound by personal relationships and why commit to justice when it does not personally affect us?
April 15, 2024

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented talks at Kings College London and University of Bristol, United Kingdom, March 13-14. His presentations focused on corporate uses of photography and advertising aesthetics and how mid-century media paved a path to the contemporary world of social media influencers.
April 10, 2024

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, has been elected vice chair-elect of the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association.
April 10, 2024

Amit Batabyal, Distinguished Professor, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented two papers at the Southern Regional Science Association annual conference, April 4-6, in Arlington, Va. The first paper was about how AI-based technology affects regional economic growth, and the second paper was about decentralized vs. centralized cleanup of water pollution in the Ganges river in India.