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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August 2023

  • August 15, 2023

    Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, spoke with the New Books Network about her book Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal. The book addresses the Cold War-era technoscientific, environmental, and diplomatic debates about building a sea-level canal across Central America with peaceful nuclear explosives.

  • August 11, 2023

    An interdisciplinary team presented “Music, Motion, and Mixed Reality: An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Based Educational Experience” at the SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator’s Forum on Aug. 9 in Los Angeles. Team members are Joe Geigel, professor in the Department of Computer Science; Thomas Warfield, director of dance; Yunn-Shan Ma, assistant professor in the School of Performing Arts; Shaun Foster, professor in the School of Design; and Dan Roach of DJR Design. The talk described collaborative educational experiences created during the Fall 2022 semester involving computation, design, art, and music.

  • August 11, 2023

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented a paper on centralized versus decentralized approaches to cleaning water pollution in the Ganges river at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on July 20 and at the University of Hyderabad on July 26. Batabyal also presented two more papers in a conference held July 24-25 at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

July 2023

  • July 27, 2023

    Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, led a two-day workshop on “Making & Memoir: Storytelling through Fibers” as a visiting instructor at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts in Boston.

  • July 21, 2023

    James Falotico, a fourth-year museum studies major, presented the paper “Build, Select, Reshuffle: Uncovering Distinct Features of Cultural Heritage Objects with Multispectral Imaging” at Archiving 2023 in June in Oslo, Norway. The paper was co-authored with Juilee Decker, professor and program director of museum studies; David Messinger, professor of imaging science; and Roger Easton Jr., professor of imaging science.

  • July 21, 2023

    Juilee Decker, professor and program director of museum studies, and David Messinger, professor of imaging science, presented their paper “Under the Hood: Multispectral Imaging for Historical Artifacts” at the 51st annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation in May in Jacksonville, Fla. Their project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, offers an accessible, user-friendly system and software that can be used on small format historical documents, sheet, and leaf collections to recover obscured and illegible text on historical materials and to document current condition.

  • July 13, 2023

    John Capps, professor of philosophy, and Camille Lea, a computer engineering and philosophy double major, had their book review, “Thinking Philosophically,” published in Metascience. They reviewed Julian Baggini’s recent book, How to Think Like a Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 2023).