Spring Semester 2025
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Spring Semester 2025
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Favorite music (general style or specific band), podcast, book, or movie:
Alternative rock. I’m usually singing along to Shinedown or Bad Omens in the car.
Shameless brag:
I can parallel park 98% perfectly!
Scariest thing you ever did & would you do it again?
I moved to Rochester from The Bronx. I would absolutely do it again. My life has taken a different route than I originally moved up here for, but I am the person today because of the leap I took. I can’t imagine my life any other way.
Advice for younger you:
Don’t doubt yourself so much. You are stronger than you know.
On your perfect day off, you’re most likely to be found:
Since it's cold right now you would find me at Lamberton Conservatory in Highland Park. Drinking coffee, sitting among all the pretty plants. Watching the quail and tortoises while writing or reading.

Newsmakers
June 17, 2025
Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, served as one of five invited speakers for Tech Ed 2025, hosted by Macmillan Learning in Austin, Texas. Her workshop, “Creating Connection: Building Collaborative and Supportive Learning Communities,” guided participants on how to discover practical, relationship-centered strategies aimed at fostering trust, belonging, and meaningful collaboration among students—and between students and instructors in the classroom.
June 5, 2025
Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in Communications, was featured in an article titled “Self-Improvement Rewind” in the summer 2025 issue of Atomic Ranch. The article referenced his latest book, Designed for Success: Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records.
May 30, 2025
Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and the head of the Department of Sustainability, received an Editor of Distinction Award from Springer Nature for his role as an Editor-in-Chief of letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.
May 28, 2025
Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor, and Abigail Block, an ASL-English Interpretation major and current Aberg Fellow in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published “Cuts to FEMA and Disaster Preparedness Will Disproportionately Harm Disabled Americans,” as part of the series “Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration,” for the Network in Canadian History & Environment. Block’s research involves how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are underserved by climate-related disaster preparedness campaigns.
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