Newsmakers

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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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April 2024

  • April 5, 2024

    Rebecca Scales, associate professor of history, received a 2024 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to continue research for her book project Polio and its Afterlives: Disability and Epidemic Disease in France. Scales will be working in Paris and Strasbourg, France, over the summer.

  • April 4, 2024

    Richard Newman, professor in the Department of History, is featured as a consultant and commentator in an upcoming PBS documentary, Poisoned Ground, premiering on April 22. The film tells the story of the chemical crisis and resulting activism at Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, in the 1970s and 1980s. A free preview screening of the film will be hosted by Buffalo Toronto Public Media on April 10. Pre-registration for the screening is required.

  • April 2, 2024

    Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, and Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published “Squished Bugs: Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in Ecology” in Environmental Humanities, an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal with a focus on publishing the best interdisciplinary scholarship on environmental topics.

March 2024

  • March 27, 2024

    James Walter, a third-year psychology major, was a panelist for the talk “And Now, Kiss: Learning about Intimacy from Romancing, Dating Sims, and Otome Games” and showcased his dating sim game designed to teach healthy relationships and beliefs at the PAX East conference March 21-24 in Boston.

  • March 22, 2024

    Students Olivia Bo Allaby, Ciara Bailey, Finn Cohen, Romiere Horace, Morgan Johnson, Megan Kelly, and Erika Mitchell, from the Department of Psychology, and Matthew Altobelli, a recent graduate of the experimental psychology master’s degree program, presented research at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting, Feb. 29-March 2 in Philadelphia. Faculty mentors from the psychology department are Joseph Baschnagel, Stephanie Godleski, Rebecca Houston, Marjorie Prokosch, Lindsay Schenkel, and Tina Sutton.

  • March 21, 2024

    Richard Newman, professor of history, was a featured speaker at a symposium, Religion and the American Revolution, hosted by the George Washington Presidential Library on Feb. 11 at Mount Vernon in Virginia. Newman’s talk was part of a gala fundraiser for Virginia’s Historic Pohick Church, which celebrated its 250th anniversary, and focused on African American religious leaders who helped inspire the abolitionist movement during the American Revolutionary era.

  • March 18, 2024

    Rebecca Scales, associate professor of history, edited a roundtable discussion published in the journal French History about the past, present, and future of disability history in France and Francophone contexts.

February 2024