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 2025

March 2025

  • March 26, 2025

    John Capps, professor of philosophy, organized a panel on pragmatism and the penal system and presented his paper “Pragmatism, Deterrence, and Collective Punishment” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy on March 14 in Washington, D.C.

  • March 24, 2025

    Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, will deliver the keynote address titled “Gathering as Necessary Resistance: On Black Women’s Social, Communal, and Digital Belonging" at St. John Fisher University for its Women’s History Month programming. Her talk will explore the role of community and placemaking in Black women’s experiences in academia and society.

  • March 24, 2025

    Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, was invited as a visiting professor at the University of Paris-East Creteil. She delivered lectures and workshops to graduate students on craftivism, artistic-based research, and exhibition curation.

  • March 24, 2025

    Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, gave the keynote address at the Law Enforcement Technologies: The Realm of Facial Recognition conference, held on March 13 and 14 at Côte d’Azur University in Nice, France. The keynote address, “Normalizing Facial Recognition Technology and the End of Obscurity,” discussed the profound risk to privacy posed by facial recognition technology, including in countries protected by the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act.

  • March 19, 2025

    Eun Sook Kwon, associate professor in the School of Communication, co-authored the study “What drives addiction on social media sites? The relationships between psychological well-being states, social media addiction, brand addiction and impulse buying on social media,” published in Computers in Human Behavior. The research examines how psychological well-being affects social media addiction and consumer behavior. The study was mentioned in The New York Times article “What Does it Take to Quit Shopping?”

  • March 14, 2025

    Evelyn Brister, professor in the Department of Philosophy, presented her book, A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits, as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series at Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources. She also spoke at the Western Places/Western Spaces conference, discussing sustainable community planning.

February 2025

  • February 28, 2025

    Jeffrey Wagner, professor of economics, and alumnus Michael Dortz published “Raising Rivals’ Costs and Right to Repair Laws: Separating the Sheep from the Goats?” in the Journal of Regulatory Economics. In addition, Wagner and alumni Nick Leary and Michael Zunino published “The Marginal Abatement Cost Function with Secondary Waste Markets” in Ecological Economics.

  • February 28, 2025

    Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented “Simple! Fast! Modern! Fun! Taking the Road to Success with Midcentury Self-Improvement Records” at Palm Springs Modernism Week, an annual festival highlighting midcentury modern architecture, art, interior design, landscape design, and vintage culture.