Newsmakers

August 31, 2021

Rain Bosworth, assistant professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at NTID, was awarded $250,000 by the James S. McDonnell Foundation for a three-year research project titled “Do Tactile Exploratory Behaviors Predict Language Development in Deaf Signing Children?” This work is done in collaboration with Allison Fitch, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology; Matthew Dye, associate professor at NTID; and Guoyu Lu, assistant professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.

August 30, 2021

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy and director of the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program, published Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking (SUNY Press). The co-edited volume offers a unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of 11 Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy while extending philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

August 23, 2021

Farhad Akhbardeh, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, published a paper at the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 main conference on “Handling Extreme Class Imbalance in Technical Logbook Datasets,” together with Associate Professor Cecilia Alm, Assistant Professor Marcos Zampieri, and Associate Professor Travis Desell, who are affiliated with the computing and information sciences Ph.D. program.

August 10, 2021

Qing Miao, assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy, was awarded a $62,600 grant for her research, “Does Preparedness Reduce Losses from Coastal Hazards? An Empirical Study of U.S. Counties.” This research is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of New Hampshire Coastal Response Research Center.

July 29, 2021

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, published “The Racialized Strategy of Using Skin in Marketing and Consumer Culture,” with Janet Borgerson in Spark, the online magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity. He was also invited to join the University of Michigan’s Diversity Scholars Network.

July 29, 2021

Laura Lentz and Sungmin Shin, adjunct faculty members in the performing arts department, are releasing an album through the internationally recognized record label ArtistShare with their Rochester-based group fivebyfive.

July 22, 2021

Thomas Warfield, RIT’s director of dance, was a vocalist at the July 10 Henrietta Pride event at Henrietta Town Hall.

July 9, 2021

Tom Dooley, lecturer in the School of Communication, was nominated for three New York Emmy awards for work broadcast by WXXI: producer for NOW THIS: Nicholas H. Ruth, producer for Arts InFocus: Move To Include Special, and associate producer for Journeys Through The Finger Lakes. He currently has two New York Emmy awards.

July 9, 2021

Joseph Fornieri, professor of political science and director of RIT’s Center for Statesmanship, Law, and Liberty, authored a pop quiz on the Pentagon Papers to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of their release, titled “Rediscovering America: A Quiz on the Pentagon Papers.” The quiz was published in more than 50 newspapers across the country, including the Las Vegas Sun, Arizona Daily Sun, and the Napa Valley Register. You can take the quiz yourself on the Inside Sources website.

June 24, 2021

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, has been named a 2021 RSAI (Regional Science Association International) Fellow. The fellowship is an international honor awarded to distinguished scholars with a proven research record in the interdisciplinary field of regional science, which analyzes economic, political, and social change in sub-national geographic entities such as states and counties. Less than 5 percent of the RSAI membership holds this title at any one point in time.