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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April 2026

April 8, 2026

Experimental psychology MS students presented their work recently. Theresa Haas and Bea Pulido had work featured at the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting. Their work also was featured in the organization’s journal. Daniel Lindberg and Willow Rose presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference in Chicago. Rose also presented at the Central New York Environmental Science Conference on March 28. Rome Horace’s work was featured in McNair National Research Journal.
April 8, 2026

Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, presented “A Blue Economy: Horseshoe Crabs, Ocean Ecologies, and Biomedicine” at the Business History Conference in London.
April 3, 2026

Emily Wood and Katherine Wood, students in the biomedical sciences program, and experiential psychology MS student Natalie Fornieri presented their research at the 97th annual Eastern Psychological Association meeting March 6-8 in Boston. The research was conducted in collaboration with Stephanie Godleski and Rebecca Houston, associate professors, and Joseph Baschnagel, chair of the Department of Psychology.
April 3, 2026

Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published “Making Nature Accessible: Wallace Craig and the Wood Pewee” in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. The project highlights 'Deaf Gain' in the history of biology.

March 2026

March 27, 2026

Evelyn Brister, professor of philosophy, published “Value pluralism supports portfolio approaches in conservation” in Ambio: A Journal of Environment and Society. The article and a related presentation at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy traced how ethics supports inclusive decision-making for nature conservation.
March 27, 2026

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, was named a Fellow of the Southern Regional Science Association at its annual conference in Louisville, Ky.
March 27, 2026

Christine Kray, professor of anthropology, presented “Invisibles e importantes: Mujeres en los márgenes de la Guerra Social yucateca” for the II Congreso de la Red Iberoamericana de Historiadoras on March 21.
March 27, 2026

Cedric Bone, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student and AWARE-AI trainee; Angelique Armstrong, senior staff assistant in the College of Liberal Arts; and Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director, attended the 2026 NRT Annual Meeting in Golden, Colo., in March. The AWARE-AI group presented two posters and a talk.
March 27, 2026

Jeffrey Wagner, professor in the Department of Economics, and Mitchell Rieder, a fourth-year economics and computer science double major, presented their co-authored paper, “The Law and Economics of Tradeable Satellite Debris Permit Market,” at the Midwest Economics Association, March 20-22 in Chicago.
March 18, 2026

Amit Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Sustainability Department has been named a Fellow of the United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE). The award will be presented at the USSEE Biennial Conference in June.