Newsmakers

Highlighting the professional and academic accomplishments of College of Liberal Arts students, faculty, and staff.

Newsmakers are a quick and easy way to acknowledge the professional and academic accomplishments of RIT students, faculty, and staff, such as publishing an article in a scholarly journal, presenting research at a conference, serving on a panel discussion, earning a scholarship, or winning an award. Newsmakers appear in News and Events as well as the "In the News" section on faculty/staff directory profile pages.

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April 2026

  • April 3, 2026

    Emily Wood and Katherine Wood, students in the biomedical sciences program, and experiential psychology MS student Natalie Fornieri presented their research at the 97th annual Eastern Psychological Association meeting March 6-8 in Boston. The research was conducted in collaboration with Stephanie Godleski and Rebecca Houston, associate professors, and Joseph Baschnagel , chair of the Department of Psychology.

  • April 3, 2026

    Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published “Making Nature Accessible: Wallace Craig and the Wood Pewee” in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. The project highlights 'Deaf Gain' in the history of biology.

March 2026

  • March 27, 2026

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, was named a Fellow of the Southern Regional Science Association at its annual conference in Louisville, Ky.

  • March 27, 2026

    Christine Kray, professor of anthropology, presented “Invisibles e importantes: Mujeres en los márgenes de la Guerra Social yucateca” for the II Congreso de la Red Iberoamericana de Historiadoras on March 21.

  • March 27, 2026

    Cedric Bone, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student and AWARE-AI trainee; Angelique Armstrong, senior staff assistant in the College of Liberal Arts; and Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director, attended the 2026 NRT Annual Meeting in Golden, Colo., in March. The AWARE-AI group presented two posters and a talk.

  • March 27, 2026

    Jeffrey Wagner, professor in the Department of Economics, and Mitchell Rieder, a fourth-year economics and computer science double major, presented their co-authored paper, “The Law and Economics of Tradeable Satellite Debris Permit Market,” at the Midwest Economics Association, March 20-22 in Chicago.

  • March 18, 2026

    Amit Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Sustainability Department has been named a Fellow of the United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE). The award will be presented at the USSEE Biennial Conference in June.

  • March 5, 2026

    Muhammad Salar Khan, assistant professor of public policy, co-authored the white paper “Financing the AI Triad: Compute, Data and Algorithms.” The paper proposes a framework for financing national AI ecosystems and argues that investments in compute, data, and algorithms should be treated as core economic infrastructure and outlines strategies for countries to build domestic AI capacity through coordinated public and private financing. Co-authors are researchers from the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative at the University of Oxford and partner institutions including Schmidt Sciences; University of California, Berkeley; Toronto Metropolitan University; and Georgetown University.

  • March 4, 2026

    Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, participated in the 2026 Social Science Foo Camp at the Microsoft AI campus in Mountain View, Calif., from Feb. 20-22. Foo Camp, an annual event hosted since 2003, is invitation-only and organized by Tim O’Reilly, Microsoft AI, Sage, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.