Newsmakers

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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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December 2023

  • December 21, 2023

    Amit Batabyal, Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, has been selected to serve as an area editor of the Springer Nature journal Networks and Spatial Economics beginning in January 2024.

  • December 14, 2023

    Rebecca DeRoo, professor in the School of Communication and director of the visual culture program, published a book chapter in the exhibition catalogue Viva Varda! The catalogue accompanies the current retrospective exhibition at the Paris Cinematheque Francaise and examines the work of French film director Agnes Varda.

  • December 7, 2023

    Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented “On Midcentury Vinyl and Cultural History” on Nov. 30 at Stockholm University Business School and “Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records” on Dec. 4 for the Art Talk series at Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.

  • December 7, 2023

    Christopher Schreck, professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, was invited to give presentations of his work on decision-making processes that people use to manage their victimization risk, including the acquisition of weaponry, at Tulane and Pennsylvania State universities.

  • December 1, 2023

    Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, delivered an invited Zoom talk, “Craft Activism, Memory-Making, and Political Action,” to the MidAtlantic Fiber Association on Nov. 28.

November 2023

  • November 30, 2023

    Sara Armengot, associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, contributed “Language Programs at Rochester Institute of Technology: A Successful Recent Initiative (2018-Present)” to Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education, edited by Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix A. Kronenberg, and Scott Sterling, published this month in Springer’s Educational Linguistics book series. Armengot’s chapter documents the success of RIT’s applied modern language and culture Bachelor of Science degree program, which pairs language and culture with a professional, scientific, or other field to enable students to internationalize their education through sustained engagement with language and culture.

  • November 21, 2023

    The Center for Engaged Storycraft will hold a workshop on “Engaging Art to Tell a Story” for high school women on Dec. 9 in collaboration with the Memorial Art Gallery. The workshop will be led by Laura Shackelford, professor, Department of English; Karen “Ren” VanMeenen, principal lecturer, Department of English; Emily Offermann, illustration student; and MacKenzie Vanacore ’22 (English), with support from local storyteller and multimedia producer Rashida Burch-Washington and Adam Koneman, a MAG museum educator.

October 2023

  • October 24, 2023

    Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, recently published “The unrealised potential of women’s political leadership in the Caribbean: A co-constitutive approach” in the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. The Hon. Percival James Patterson, former prime minister of Jamaica, called the article a “well informed and penetrative analysis for essential political dialogue and action.”