Newsmakers

December 7, 2023

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented “On Midcentury Vinyl and Cultural History” on Nov. 30 at Stockholm University Business School and “Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records” on Dec. 4 for the Art Talk series at Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.

December 7, 2023

Christopher Schreck, professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, was invited to give presentations of his work on decision-making processes that people use to manage their victimization risk, including the acquisition of weaponry, at Tulane and Pennsylvania State universities.

December 1, 2023

Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, delivered an invited Zoom talk, “Craft Activism, Memory-Making, and Political Action,” to the MidAtlantic Fiber Association on Nov. 28.

November 30, 2023

Sara Armengot, associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, contributed “Language Programs at Rochester Institute of Technology: A Successful Recent Initiative (2018-Present)” to Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education, edited by Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix A. Kronenberg, and Scott Sterling, published this month in Springer’s Educational Linguistics book series. Armengot’s chapter documents the success of RIT’s applied modern language and culture Bachelor of Science degree program, which pairs language and culture with a professional, scientific, or other field to enable students to internationalize their education through sustained engagement with language and culture.

November 21, 2023

The Center for Engaged Storycraft will hold a workshop on “Engaging Art to Tell a Story” for high school women on Dec. 9 in collaboration with the Memorial Art Gallery. The workshop will be led by Laura Shackelford, professor, Department of English; Karen “Ren” VanMeenen, principal lecturer, Department of English; Emily Offermann, illustration student; and MacKenzie Vanacore ’22 (English), with support from local storyteller and multimedia producer Rashida Burch-Washington and Adam Koneman, a MAG museum educator.

November 3, 2023

Irshad Altheimer, director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives, presented “Assessing Gaps in Services for Violence Victims and How We Can Fix Them” during a panel discussion in October at the URMC Public Health Grand Rounds.

October 24, 2023

Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, recently published “The unrealised potential of women’s political leadership in the Caribbean: A co-constitutive approach” in the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. The Hon. Percival James Patterson, former prime minister of Jamaica, called the article a “well informed and penetrative analysis for essential political dialogue and action.”

October 24, 2023

Irshad Altheimer, professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives, was the keynote speaker for the Ibero American Action League’s 2023 State of the LatinX Community Virtual Luncheon on Oct. 16. Altheimer presented on “Nuestro Barrio, Rochester’s Future: A focus on the current public safety issues facing the El Camino Neighborhood.”

October 17, 2023

Several members of RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives and the Monroe Crime Analysis Center presented at the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ Public Safety Symposium on Sept. 26 in Albany, N.Y. Jennifer McColl and Brandon Zicari, both crime analysts, presented “Car Theft Groups in Rochester”; Karlee Crist, a crime analyst, and Melissa Frasca, an investigator with the Rochester Police Department, presented “Partners in Crime: Building Relationships between Crime Analysts and Law Enforcement”; and Kylene McGrath, an analyst working on the Gun Involved Violence Elimination grant, and Lt. Kara Anglin, with the Rochester Police Department, presented “Intel Drives the Ops: The Role of a Crime Analyst in Pro-Active Policing.”

October 17, 2023

Rebecca DeRoo, professor and director of the visual culture program, presented “Illuminating Public and Domestic Labor: Mary Kelly’s 1970s Feminist Art Activism” at the Feminist Art History Conference, held in late September at American University in Washington, D.C.