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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February 2022

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.
January 25, 2022

Juilee Decker, professor of history and director of the museum studies program, was awarded a Scholarly Research Fellowship at the Kentucky Historical Society to conduct research on her book Remembrance of Things Cast: Kentucky’s Monuments and Memorials in the Age of #TakeItDown.
January 20, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented two papers at the Allied Social Science Association Virtual Conference on Jan. 8 and 9, 2022.
January 18, 2022

Tamar Carroll, chair of the Department of History, joined the Board of Trustees of the National Susan B. Anthony House and Museum.
January 18, 2022

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, had his article “Marginalization of Indigenous People in Education Data Produces a False Narrative” featured in The Minority Report, an annual newsletter published by the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.
January 10, 2022

Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, and Shaun Foster, associate professor of 3D digital design, participated in the workshop “Building Human Rights Into The Metaverse” on Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, held on the AltSpace VR platform and organized by The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Access Now.
January 5, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented a paper at the Global Regional Development Hybrid Conference in Shenzen, China, on Dec. 5 and two papers at the Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International Hybrid Conference in Melbourne, Australia, on Dec. 6.

December 2021

December 14, 2021

Jeff Wagner, professor of economics, virtually presented an invited paper, “Economics of IP in Sustainable Waste Management with Application to Managing Satellite Debris in Low-Earth Orbit,” at the NextSpace 2021 European Symposium held near Bordeaux, France, on Dec. 7. This work is co-authored with Zachary Grzelka ’18 (economics), who is now a student at Syracuse Law School.
December 9, 2021

Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, professors in the Department of Philosophy, have received a grant from the Central New York Humanities Corridor through an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will fund the organization of a seminar—to be hosted virtually at RIT in spring 2022—on the legacy of Italian Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in terms of contemporary humanism, post-humanism, and trans-humanism.