Accomplishments from Saunders Students

At Saunders College of Business, students are always on to something amazing, even before graduating! If you are a student at Saunders College and have exciting news to share, email communications@saunders.rit.edu.

November 2024

Amal Aboushanab ’25 (hospitality and tourism management), Daniel Lootens ’26 (management information systems), Kimberly Kaleta ’25 (marketing), Luchunzi Wang ’26 (MS hospitality business management), Matilda Gjini ’26 (MS hospitality business management), and Dan Hooper ’27 (hospitality and tourism management) attended The Hospitality Show, October 28-30, in San Antonio, Texas. The Show featured programming, networking, breakout presentations, and an exhibition hall featuring hundreds of vendors.

October 2024

Amanda Bosh, Ph.D., ‘24 (Executive Online MBA) has been promoted to Executive Director of Lowell Observatory, in Flagstaff, AZ, where she previously served as Chief Operating Officer. States W. Lowell Putnam, Sole Trustee of Lowell Observatory, “We are excited to welcome Amanda as our new Executive Director. Her extensive experience in planetary science, along with her proven leadership as Chief Operating Officer, makes her the ideal candidate to guide the observatory through this next era of discovery and public engagement.”

Joshua Michaels ’26 (marketing), Chad Chapman ’27 (computer science), Emmanuel Boakye ’26 (individualized study), and Nemesis Velasquez ’26 (new media interactive development) are the inaugural winners of the Ramsey Family Innovation Award, which provides annual support for a student team each year enrolled in the RIT Student Accelerator program. The team, led by Michaels, developed OnCall, a platform that connects available nurses to nearby healthcare facilities.

Chris Soukup ‘25 (Online Executive MBA) published an article, “How Companies Can Use AI to Better Serve Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Customers,” in Harvard Business Review. Soukup is the CEO of Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD), a pioneer of accessible communication services and technologies for the deaf community for nearly 50 years.

September 2024

Annie Hong ’25 (management information systems) completed an internship this past summer as an Operations Analyst Intern with JPMorgan Chase in New York City. She reports that she “had the opportunity to work on KYC [know your customer] due diligence for high-income clients from Latin America.”

Ericka Chen ’26 (accounting and management information systems) completed an internship this past summer at the New York Climate Exchange in New York City. This was the first year for the internship program, and Ericka was the first student from RIT to participate.

August 2024

Justin Maine '28 (business exploration), graduate of Dansville High School, Jack TeBeau (marketing and management information systems), and Keegan Dennis '28 (finance), graduates of Livonia High School are 2024 recipients of E. Philip Saunders Endowed Business Scholarships. The three recipients will receive scholarships valued at up to $100,000 over the course of four years. The award was established in 2006 by E. Philip Saunders to provide four-year scholarships annually to graduates of designated Livingston County high schools who are enrolled in Saunders College of Business.

Joshua Michaels ’26 (marketing) and his team presented “OnCall,” a digital nursing agency, as part of the RIT Student Accelerator Demos, on August 7.  Notably, his was the first team in over a decade and 21 cohorts to be awarded the Ramsey Fellowship for Innovation.

Adelle Young ’24 (graphic design), who worked as a graphic designer for Saunders College during her junior year at RIT, has begun a new job as Contract Graphic Designer for TPH Academy.

Emma Schock ’25 (management information systems) completed a successful summer 2024 IT internship with St. Luke’s University Health Network in Lehigh Valley, PA.

Amal Aboushanab ’25 (hospitality and tourism management) began, on June 10, 2024, a Management Training Internship with Marriott International at Renaissance Sharm El Sheikh Golden View Beach Resort in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Logan Burns ’25 (accounting) has been named a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Scholar. The award comes with a $15,000 scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year.

Emma Goetze ’25 (management information systems) is completing a summer internship at the Lake House on Canandaigua. She joins Cornell hospitality; interns to help staff The Lake House, one of Greater Rochester's premier hospitality destinations in the Finger Lakes.

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