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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June 2022

  • June 9, 2022

    Katrina M. Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, and Francesca A. Williamson, Indiana University School of Medicine, co-authored “Breaking bread with storyworlding methodology: Black feminist/womanist commentary on unearthing communal lifeworlds,” published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Using a friendship as method approach, the authors engage in reflexive dialogue about storyworlding methodology and consider the transformative possibilities of this methodology and the new lines of inquiry it can create within the critical qualitative inquiry community.

  • June 9, 2022

    The RIT/NTID Performing Arts production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, directed by Andy Head, assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts, received a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award at the 2022 KCACTF National Award Ceremony on May 21. The award “recognizes programs in higher education using theatrical production to promote long-term societal impact through an artistic lens, to encourage empathetic exploration of the complex cultural and physical world, and to advocate for justice on campus and throughout the world.” The production was also recognized with special achievement awards in production and performance ensemble unity, projection design, sound design, and lighting design.

May 2022

  • May 27, 2022

    Amitrajeet Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor in Economics, has been selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association. Distinguished Fellows have outstanding records of scholarship, service to the profession, and participation within the association in the advancement of regional analysis and related fields of study.

  • May 20, 2022

    Duygu Akdevelioglu, assistant professor in the Department of MIS, Marketing and Analytics, Saunders College of Business, and Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, published “Stakeholders as Value Creators: The Role of Multi-Level Networks in Employee Wellness Programs” in the Journal of Macromarketing. The authors studied the RIT Wellness Center to explore value creation in multi-layered stakeholder networks in the context of employee wellness programs and marketization of wellness.

  • May 10, 2022

    Sungmin Shin, adjunct faculty in the Department of Performing Arts, was invited for engagements this semester at several institutions nationally to present solo recitals and guitar master classes. Schools he visited include University at Buffalo, Eastman School of Music, University of South Carolina, University of Louisville, and Shenandoah University. He also presented clinics for nationally recognized guitar programs at Riverside High School in Loudon Country, Va., and Youth Performing Arts Magnet High School in Louisville, Ky.

  • May 4, 2022

    Two psychology students from the College of Liberal Arts presented research at the annual Western New York Psychology Undergraduate Conference held at the University at Buffalo on April 9. Olivia Bo Allaby presented on “Early Pandemic Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Adults at High vs. Low Risk for COVID-19,” mentored by associate professors Rebecca Houston and Stephanie Godleski, and psychology department chair Joseph Baschnagel. Kaitlin Gunther presented on “Color is a Salient Cue for Goldfish Discriminating between 3D Stimuli Rotated in the Picture and Depth Planes,” mentored by Professor Caroline DeLong.

  • May 2, 2022

    Jason Scott, associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, and Rebecca Andrew ’13 (polymer chemistry), an adjunct faculty member, are part of a Rochester, N.Y., mixed curling team that has qualified for the 2022 World Competition. Team Pulli of the Rochester Curling Club concluded a five-day, round-robin USA Curling Mixed National Championship Tournament on April 16, winning a gold medal victory against a team from Illinois. The win qualifies the Rochester team to represent the United States at the 2022 World Mixed Curling Championships, which will be held in Aberdeen, Scotland, in October.

April 2022

  • April 27, 2022

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented two papers, one on competition for scarce venture capital by creative class members and another on how risk and competition policy affect the incentives to conduct R&D by vaccine manufacturers, at the annual conference of the Southern Regional Science Association held April 8-9 in Austin, Texas.

  • April 15, 2022

    Katrina M. Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, co-authored the book chapter “Let’s ‘SLAY’ Together: Building Sisterhood, Scholarly Identity, and Solidarity Among Black Female Doctoral Students” in the book Black Sisterhoods: Paradigms and Praxis, published this month.

  • April 5, 2022

    Katrina M. Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, presented “Medals, Movement, and Social Media: The Plight of Black Female Athletes and Patriotism” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) virtual conference for the Contemporary Issues in Sports Media panel on March 31.