Saunders Faculty and Staff Go Above and Beyond
- Victor Perotti,
professor in the Department of MIS, Marketing, and Analytics, joined the Rochester Business Journal’s virtual panel AI for Business
in December. The panel covered emerging trends and challenges in artificial intelligence, offering insights into its impact on business policies and practices.
- Somail Bains ‘91 (MBA) will join the Saunders department of finance and accounting as an adjunct professor beginning January 2025. Bains is the director of sales operations at Integron, in Pittsford, NY.
- Carlo Candalla, chief financial officer at Healthcare Commons, Inc.,
in Carney’s Point, NJ, will join the Saunders department of finance and accounting as an adjunct professor beginning January 2025.
- John Tu,
Ph.D., senior associate dean and professor of management information systems, and Quang “Neo” Bui,
Ph.D, associate professor in the department of MIS, marketing, and analytics, working with undergraduate students from RIT China and Saunders College, co-authored a paper that received the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at the 34th Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology, at the 2024 ICIS conference in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper grew out of Tu and Bui’s Global Faculty Research Grant, “Online Communities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from China and the U.S.”
- Sheri Watkins ’18 (MBA) will join the Saunders department of finance and accounting as an adjunct professor beginning January 2025. Watkins is the chief of finance for Coordinated Care Services, Inc., Monroe County Office of Mental Health.
Learn more about these accomplishments and read previous months online.
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News
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Saunders College of Business has partnered with the Rochester Americans to offer RIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni discounted tickets to 2024-25 regular season Amerks and Knighthawks home games! To secure season-long deals on tickets and concessions, use code "RIT" when you visit this link.
- EMBA student leverages RIT for inclusive leadership growth. Chris Soukup, a graduate student in the RIT Executive MBA program, is the CEO of Communication Service for the Deaf, a nonprofit organization that provides resources and services to benefit the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community in the employment sector.
- Carrying coach's lacrosse lessons into life. Jake Coon has turned RIT men’s lacrosse into a national powerhouse. Coon, though, prefers to talk about the 15 classes of leaders he helped shape and the assistant coaches, including Saunders graduate Shawn Wilkins, who worked with him to build a top-notch program.
- WITR: Come for the music, stay for the community. Nestled in the basement of the Student Alumni Union, the WITR radio station space is a treasure trove of music, personalities, and nostalgia. The station and the music have greatly evolved since its first broadcast in 1961, but one thing has remained constant: the tight-knit network of students and alumni, including chief engineer Remy Rattner '26 (management information systems).
See these and past news online.
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Recap of Events
- 2024 DECA Region #10 High School Competition. Over 900 DECA students competed in the New York State Region #10 High School DECA Competition hosted by RIT's Saunders College of Business. Students presented their business plans to local business leaders who served as the competition’s judges. View photos
taken by Julia Pham.
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