Newsmakers | College of Liberal Arts

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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November 2025

November 5, 2025

Eun Sook Kwon, associate professor in the School of Communication, has joined the Journal of Advertising Research as an associate editor.
November 3, 2025

Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, gave the keynote address titled “The Business Case for AI Ethics” at the 2025 Ethical Business in the Age of AI conference at the University of North Florida. His keynote addressed common challenges and frustrations business leaders face relating to AI and tech ethics and emphasized ethics as a strategic asset that can help companies reduce risk and build trust.

October 2025

October 30, 2025

Yuhan Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, participated in a roundtable discussion with journalist and activist Shiori Ito, following a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries on Oct. 25 at Hamilton College.
October 30, 2025

Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, delivered two talks and a filmed performance on “Democratizing craft knowledge in the U.S. university classroom” for the Bicentennial International Conference on Craft Sciences, Oct. 22-24 in Mariestad, Sweden.
October 27, 2025

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, presented on the panel “Navigating Internet Research as Black Women” at the 26th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers conference held in Niterói, Brazil.
October 23, 2025

Katherine Shomper, a third-year neuroscience student; alumnus Anthony Talion ’24 (biomedical sciences); and Rebecca Houston, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, presented “Effects of Cannabis Use and Binge Drinking on GoStop P3 Amplitude” at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research on Oct. 16 in Montreal.
October 23, 2025

Sandra Rothenberg, professor of management and public policy; Karl Korfmacher, professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences; and public policy alumni Mikkael Lamoca ‘24 and Roman Czornobil ’24 co-authored the paper “Potential of low-field MRI for increasing participation of Filipino Americans and underrepresented populations in Alzheimer's and dementia research.” Their research explores new strategies to increase participation of underrepresented populations in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia studies using low-field MRI technology.
October 21, 2025

Elizabeth Reeves O’Connor, principal lecturer in the School of Communication and director of the Expressive Communication Center, co-authored the essay “Connection Over Convention: Promoting Collaboration Between Communication Centers and Foundational Communication Courses to Support Student Diversity and Inclusive Practices,” published in Basic Communication Course Annual.
October 17, 2025

Rajesh Titung, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, co-authored "Securing the Weakest Link: Exploring Affective States Exploited in Phishing Emails with Large Language Models” with Esa Rantanen, associate professor, and Cecilia Alm, professor, in the Department of Psychology. The research was done in collaboration with ML-Labs, the Research Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning in Dublin, Ireland.
October 17, 2025

Esa Rantanen, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, presented three research papers from AWARE-AI’s Research Track on Cognitive Models for AI at the 69th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting ASPIRE, Oct. 13-17, in Chicago. The papers were “A Neural Hypervector Model of Memory-Driven Spatial Navigation,” with Will Gebhardt, a Ph.D. student in computing and information sciences; “The Future of Human Factors: Expanding Opportunities in Higher Education,” with students Bea Pulido, Theresa Haas, and Marley Reynolds from the experimental psychology master’s degree program; and “Whither Human Factors in the Era of AI?” written by Rantanen.