Faculty Stories

RISD team led by principal investigator Johanna Barthmaier-Payne and researchers at URI, UNH and University of Louisville will develop nature-based climate solutions to stormwater management issues. 

Hyperallergic reviews book about the 1923 RISD alum by art historian and RISD faculty member Suzanne Scanlan.

The new hires round out RISD’s Architecture & Design, Experimental and Foundation Studies, Fine Arts and Liberal Arts divisions.

President Crystal Williams, Provost Touba Ghadessi, other academic leaders address the Class of 2028 at uplifting Convocation ceremony. 

As a designer and educator, RISD alum and faculty member Rene Payne strives to break down social and cultural barriers. 

Four ongoing research projects by faculty and recent alums focus on composting, improving the visual data used to drive climate research, sustainable biomaterials and tenants’ rights.

RISD faculty member Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the scholar who rediscovered the narrative, said he hopes the book will restore fugitive and abolitionist John S. Jacobs to history.

A RISD professor, a Hyundai lab and a group of Argentine artisans turn robotics upside down.

The course is taught by new faculty member Juana Estrada Hernandez, who focuses on contemporary approaches to the medium.