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School of Communication
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August 19, 2022
Crafting is my pedagogical love language — and it works wonders in the college classroom
Essay written by Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, published by The Boston Globe.
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July 19, 2022
Meet the summer fellows who are helping our newsroom change how we cover Rochester
The Democrat and Chronicle features its 2022 Revising the Rochester Narrative summer fellows: Genae Shields '22 (photojournalism); Madeline Lathrop, fourth-year journalism student; and Justice Marbury '22 (photojournalism).
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May 9, 2022
Tea business bubbling for alumni entrepreneurs
Chinese tea culture, with its rich history existing since before the third century, has always been a lifelong passion for Tian Tian and Zining Chen. The graduates of RIT’s advertising and public relations program (2017) and master’s in entrepreneurship program (2019), yearned to share their culture in a new and exciting way—by founding Taichi Bubble Tea.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Kristine I. Simmons
Kristine I. Simmons BS ’90 is vice president of government affairs for Partnership for Public Service and is being honored by the College of Liberal Arts.
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April 25, 2022
Put on your dancing shoes
(585) Magazine talks to Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, about his book, Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America.
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April 5, 2022
‘North By Nuuk: Greenland After Rockwell Kent’ At Fenimore Art Museum
Bruce Austin, professor in the School of Communication, writes about Professor Emeritus Denis Defibaugh, who retraced Rockwell Kent’s voyage to Greenland.
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March 21, 2022
College of Liberal Arts honors students for writing excellence
Diverse subjects involving safety and autonomous automobiles, Black women in computing, and Italian cinema are just some of the winning entries for this year’s student writing awards, sponsored by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.
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March 15, 2022
Meet College of Liberal Arts Dean Anna Stenport
RIT’s College of Liberal Arts began the academic year under new leadership. Dean Anna Stenport joined RIT from Georgia Institute of Technology’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts in September following a nationwide search. Stenport is a professor of communication and an expert in transnational cinema and media, modern literature and drama, and visual and cultural studies, with a focus on the Arctic and Nordic regions.
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February 14, 2022
Creating a free speech campus culture
After the contested 2020 presidential election, the tumult of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and the national protests following the killing of George Floyd, RIT looked inward to see how to address the political climate with the student body. The result is an increased effort to create a campus culture of free speech and to give students the skills to participate in civil discourse respectfully and productively long after they graduate.
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February 11, 2022
In the galleries: The art of looking inward to provoke societal change
The Washington Post features RIT/NTID alumni Youmee Lee ’13 (professional technical communications) and Laural Hartman ’05 (illustration), ’07 MS (secondary education of students who are deaf or hard of hearing), ’20 MFA (fine arts studio) and former Dyer Arts Center Director Tabitha Jacques.
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January 17, 2022
School of Communication announces administrative changes, new director
RIT’s School of Communication has appointed Tracy Worrell, professor of communication, as its new director. The previous director, Kelly Norris Martin, is now associate dean of faculty and staff affairs in the College of Liberal Arts.
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January 10, 2022
How Mid-Century Album Art Revolutionized American Pop Culture
Blind Magazine features Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in Communications, and his new book, Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance.