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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November 2018

  • November 1, 2018

    Caroline Snyder, emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Science, Technology and Society, was honored with the 2018 Distinguished Service Award at the Sierra Club Award Ceremony in Denver, Colo., last fall. She shares the award with David Lewis, research director for the Focus for Health Foundation. They were both granted this award for their research on the long-term harm caused by biosolids as fertilizer for food and forage.