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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April 2023

April 7, 2023

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented papers about centralized vs. decentralized water pollution control in the Ganges, optimal mask wearing in office environments, and strategic competition between vaccine-producing firms, in the annual conference of the Southern Regional Science Association in Savannah, Ga., March 31-April 1.
April 6, 2023

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Matthew Gregg, senior economist, Center for Indian Country Development, had their work cited by The Brookings Institution in the research report “Why the federal government needs to change how it collects data on Native Americans.”
April 6, 2023

Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, was an invited keynote speaker and panelist at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media's conference on Integrated Marketing Communications on March 30-31 in Oxford, Miss.

March 2023

March 31, 2023

Sandra Rothenberg, professor of management and chair of the Department of Public Policy, and Charlotte Lefkovich ’18 (mechanical engineering) ’18 MS (science, technology, and public policy) had a paper, “Identification of predicate creep under the 510(k) process: A case study of a robotic surgical device,” published in the journal PLOS ONE.
March 31, 2023

Eric Hittinger, associate professor in the Department of Public Policy, and Eric Williams, professor in the Department of Sustainability, were recently awarded a $265,000 National Science Foundation grant for a research project titled “CAS-Climate: Linking Activities, Expenditures and Energy Use into an Integrated Systems Model to Understand and Predict Energy Futures.” This is part of a collaborative project with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology that is focused on understanding the large-scale interactions between behavior and energy use across the United States, with the goal of answering questions about the energy system implications of trends like telework, online shopping, or increased urban density.
March 31, 2023

Rebecca Houston, professor of psychology, mentored four psychology students who presented their research at the annual Eastern Psychological Association meeting March 2-4 in Boston. Olivia Bo Allaby presented her work on cognitive reserve, aging, executive functioning, and memory; Finn Cohen presented his research on emotion regulation and Cluster B personality disorders; Romiere Horace presented his research on gender, moral emotions, and trauma; and Jeremiah Ramkissoon presented his work on internet-related addictions, impulsivity, gender, and socioeconomic status.
March 27, 2023

Michael Winans, specialist in applied linguistics at the English Language Center, presented “The obligations and characteristics of a professional second language teacher: Perceptions during teacher education” at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. He also attended the TESOL International conference, where he organized the Computer-assisted Language Learning Graduate Research Forum in the Electronic Village.
March 27, 2023

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, gave a talk on “Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance” for the research series in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths University on March 9 in London. The talk was initially scheduled for March 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19.
March 27, 2023

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and her colleagues in the Nutrire CoLab conducted a duo-ethnographic project about caring in academia during COVID-19. The paper, “Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research,” led by Hardin, was published in the journal Field Methods.
March 20, 2023

Margaret Bailey, professor of mechanical engineering and founding director of AdvanceRIT, and Laura Shackelford, professor of English, recently published a book, Women in Engineering – Energy and the Environment. The book features technology and innovation achievements from women in mechanical engineering and provides insight into women’s trajectories, motivations, biographies, and contributions in the field.