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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March 2023

March 27, 2023

Michael Winans, specialist in applied linguistics at the English Language Center, presented “The obligations and characteristics of a professional second language teacher: Perceptions during teacher education” at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. He also attended the TESOL International conference, where he organized the Computer-assisted Language Learning Graduate Research Forum in the Electronic Village.
March 27, 2023

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, gave a talk on “Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance” for the research series in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths University on March 9 in London. The talk was initially scheduled for March 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19.
March 27, 2023

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and her colleagues in the Nutrire CoLab conducted a duo-ethnographic project about caring in academia during COVID-19. The paper, “Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research,” led by Hardin, was published in the journal Field Methods.
March 20, 2023

Margaret Bailey, professor of mechanical engineering and founding director of AdvanceRIT, and Laura Shackelford, professor of English, recently published a book, Women in Engineering – Energy and the Environment. The book features technology and innovation achievements from women in mechanical engineering and provides insight into women’s trajectories, motivations, biographies, and contributions in the field.
March 10, 2023

Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, delivered an invited talk and led a workshop titled “The Joy Machine: The Mandate for Crafting in the Classroom, and Tips to Get Started” at SUNY Geneseo on March 1. Mandell is also one of 20 artists whose work is on display at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center for the exhibition “As I Recall Her: Artists Expand the Legacy of the Douglass Women.” Her submission, “Rethinking Lilacs: A Sweater,” is a hand-knit piece made, in part, from the soil at the Rochester-Penfield border.
March 9, 2023

Abby Bratton ’22 (biomedical engineering), ’22 MS (science, technology, and public policy); Austin Davis, a biomedical engineering and science, technology, and public policy student; Julia Vaillancourt ’22 (biomedical engineering), ’22 MS (science, technology, and public policy); and Mercy Chado ’22 (biomedical engineering), ’22 MS (science, technology, and public policy), along with Sandra Rothenberg in the Department of Public Policy and Ezekiel Leo in the Department of Management, co-authored “Predicate Data Availability in the Ventilator 510(K) Network,” published in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance.

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to complete a book on his biomedical horseshoe crab research. Whitney has previously received grants from the National Science Foundation and Leverhulme Trust to fund this research.
February 16, 2023

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, will deliver the opening talk for Le Moyne College's celebration of Women's History Month on March 2 in Syracuse, N.Y. Overby will present “On Black Women and Representation: Looking and Talking Back through Digital Discourses and Media Images.”
February 2, 2023

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, had the paper “Using Taxes to Attract the Creative Class in the Presence of a Region-Specific Rent” accepted for publication in the Review of Regional Studies and a second paper titled “On Mask Wearing in Environments With and Without a Mask Mandate” accepted for publication in Economics Bulletin.
February 2, 2023

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, co-authored a memo, “How Much Did Native American Life Expectancy Drop During COVID-19?” published in ECONOFACT, a non-partisan publication designed to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies.