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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March 2022

March 1, 2022

Rebecca Houston, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, recently presented on the “Electrophysiology of Human Aggression” as part of a workshop on the Neurobiology and Toxicology of Aggression at the 2022 American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting in Seattle.
March 1, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented two papers about urban crime and competition for venture capital at the annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association Feb. 19-20 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was an invited panelist for the Feb. 10 Zoom event, “The Douglass Women: Another Look at Anna Murray and Rosetta,” which was organized by 540 West Main.
February 18, 2022

Uli Linke, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, was the winner of the 2021 AMPS-UCL Press Journal Award. Linke received the award in recognition of her article “The optics of dispossession: urban precarity as political art,” which appeared in the December 2021 issue of the journal Architecture_MPS, a publication of the Architecture Media Politics Society.
February 17, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was a presenter for the Zoom event “Craft, Protest and Feminism: Disruptors Yesterday and Today,” hosted by Carpenters Hall and the National Liberty Museum on Feb. 2 in Philadelphia.
February 17, 2022

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, won a $92,239 grant from the Sarah K. de Coizart Perpetual Charitable Trust foundation. This work will focus on assessing highway roadsides as potential habitat for threatened monarch butterflies.
February 10, 2022

Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, and Shaun Foster, associate professor of design, have been awarded a grant from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab for their project, “Ethical Issues Associated With Pervasive Eye-Tracking.”
February 8, 2022

Rebecca DeRoo, associate professor of communication and director of the visual culture program, was invited to present the opening lecture for the 60th anniversary of the International Film Series, College of Central Florida. DeRoo analyzed the groundbreaking film Cleo from 5 to 7, marking the film’s 60th anniversary.
February 1, 2022

John Edlund, professor of psychology, published “Saving Science Through Replication Studies” in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Victoria Covell, a fourth-year graphic design major; Samuel Langshteyn, a fourth-year film and animation major; and Serena Rush, a second-year psychology major, represented RIT/NTID in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and advanced to the final round of only sixteen actors. Kathryn Richer ’21 (applied arts and sciences) represented RIT/NTID in Design, Technology, and Management at the festival and received the Don Childs DTM Cross-Discipline Collaboration Award for her stage management work on last semester’s production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.