Newsmakers

September 7, 2022

RIT’s chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, received a model chapter award for the fifth consecutive year. In 2022, Psi Chi awarded 28 model chapter awards (out of more than 1,200 chapters worldwide). This award reflects the involvement and engagement of the students and the quality of the student leadership.

August 31, 2022

Hannah DeFelice, an environmental science BS/MS student and RIT/NTID U-RISE research fellow, presented a poster titled “Impacts of roadside habitat restoration on animal-related vehicular collisions in New York, USA,” co-authored with Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, at the international joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution on Aug. 17, 2022.

August 31, 2022

Ann Howard, professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, was an invited speaker for the University of Rochester Urban Fellows program. The 10-week summer program engages local undergraduates in roughly 300-hour fellowships with community organizations, faculty- and community-led urban issue dialogues, and community events.

August 26, 2022

Stephanie Godleski, associate professor of psychology, served on a panel on maternal health organized by New York Sen. Samra Brouk on Aug. 10. Godleski discussed the importance of maternal mental health.

August 24, 2022

Richard Newman, professor in the Department of History, attended a conference panel in July celebrating the 20th anniversary of his first major book, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (2002). The panel, which met at the 43rd annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) in New Orleans, included five professors from around the nation who discussed the impact of Newman’s book on antislavery scholarship. 

August 22, 2022

Michael Dortz, a computer science and economics double major, and Jeffrey Wagner, professor of economics, co-presented their research paper, “Raising Rivals’ Costs and Right-to-Repair Laws: Separating the Sheep from the Goats?” at the annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, held at Columbia Law School on Aug. 5.

August 19, 2022

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy and director of the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program, published Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times (SUNY Press). The volume gathers 14 contributions written by Italian philosophers within the context of the precariousness and vulnerability revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the geographical, socio-political, and medical contexts in which the reflections originate, Rethinking Life proposes a different configuration of life and collective living centered on relational subjectivities, interconnectedness, interdependence, and solidarity.

August 19, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented a paper about the strategic competition between vaccine producing firms and a paper about the impact of climate change on pollution in the Ganges river in Kanpur, India, during the virtual annual conference of the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO), Aug. 1-2.

August 4, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, professor in the Department of Psychology, was tutorial co-chair with Miguel Ballesteros from Amazon, and Yulia Tsvetkov from the University of Washington, for the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Seattle.

August 4, 2022

Rebecca Houston, associate professor of psychology, was an invited speaker as part of the Pain Relief Innovations Lab Guest Speaker series at Stanford University School of Medicine on July 14. Houston’s talk was on “Event-related Potentials as Biomarkers in Substance Use Disorders and Treatment.”