Newsmakers

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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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April 2023

  • April 28, 2023

    Caroline DeLong, professor of psychology; psychology students Logan Brownell, Kaitlin Gunther, and Kera Hampton; sociology and anthropology student Izzy Deglans; experimental psychology graduate students Moet Aita and Matt Altobelli '22 (psychology); and alumni Katie Becker '22 (psychology), Jessica Wegman '20 (psychology), '22 MS (experimental psychology), and Kelsey Beers '22 (ASL-English interpretation) had two presentations at the 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition on April 13 in Melbourne, Fla. The presentations involved individual recognition in fish using visual cues and hand preferences for cognitive tasks in baboons.

  • April 21, 2023

    Romiere Horace, third-year psychology and criminal justice major, was awarded Best Poster Presentation Runner-up at the Western New York Undergraduate Psychology Conference held on April 15 at the University at Buffalo. Horace's poster, titled “Associations Between Gender, Moral Emotions, and Delinquent Behavior,” was co-authored by faculty mentor Rebecca J. Houston, associate professor in the Department of Psychology.

  • April 21, 2023

    Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, published the article “Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa” in American Anthropologist. The article employs Oceanic epistemological theories to explore the body as a site of knowledge production among Samoan Pentecostal women as they dance in a church-sponsored Zumba session, tracking foods, words, and feelings. It calls for orient critical studies of health to interrogate the dynamic qualities of materiality, including both the moving body and materials that move between or within bodies.

  • April 20, 2023

    Karen “Ren” vanMeenen, senior lecturer in the Department of English, presented “Using Graphic Novels to Enhance Social Emotional Learning” for Rochester School District elementary faculty and staff on April 12.

  • April 13, 2023

    Bruce Austin, professor in the School of Communication, authored “The First Traveling Art Exhibition,” published in Western New York Heritage (Spring, 2023). The essay is based on research conducted for his book A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley’s 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions (RIT Press, 2022).

  • April 7, 2023

    Yuhan Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures, gave a talk about “Literature in the Age of #MeToo: Retelling Sexual Violence in Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise and its Reception,” for the Chinese Studies Colloquium at Purdue University on March 20.

  • April 7, 2023

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented papers about centralized vs. decentralized water pollution control in the Ganges, optimal mask wearing in office environments, and strategic competition between vaccine-producing firms, in the annual conference of the Southern Regional Science Association in Savannah, Ga., March 31-April 1.

  • April 6, 2023

    Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, was an invited keynote speaker and panelist at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media's conference on Integrated Marketing Communications on March 30-31 in Oxford, Miss.

March 2023