Owen Gottlieb, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, authored a chapter in The Archivability of Television: Essays on Preservation and Perseverance, a book in the Peabody Series in Media History—a collaboration of the University of Georgia Press and the Peabody Awards Collection. The chapter, titled “Heritage in Search of a Home: Archiving the Learning Designs and Artistry of Instructional Television of the 1970s and 1980s,” addresses the rescuing of historical collections that hold design implications for learning with games and interactive media today.

Dina Newman, professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, spearheaded the second annual Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research East meeting at RIT’s College of Science, May 28-30. The conference, which was supported by L. Kate Wright, school head, and Crystal Uminski, postdoctoral research associate, included 120 attendees from across the nation, with keynote talks, short talks, poster sessions, and a Shark Tank-style event.

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in Communications, was featured in an article titled “Self-Improvement Rewind” in the summer 2025 issue of Atomic Ranch. The article referenced his latest book, Designed for Success: Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records. 

How Rochester Institute of Technology is powering a new generation of women leaders >
Yahoo interviews Associate Professor Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard and members of the Hot Wheelz racing team for a story about women taking on leadership roles.

RIT blends brutalist roots with modern learning design >
Rochester Business Journal features Jacqueline Mozrall, dean of Saunders College of Business, speaking about the combination of brutalist architecture and modern renovations of Max Lowenthal Hall.

Largest-ever map of the universe reveals 800,000 galaxies >
Earth.com reports on the COSMOS-Web data release, co-led by Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, which reveals the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever.

1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet >
The Register interviews Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about the COSMOS-Web data release.

How air pollution affects mental health >
Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, highlights new research that links short-term spikes in PM2.5 to increased antidepressant use in an essay for Basis Point Insight.