Numerous faculty were included on the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influencer Rankings, including: Sonya Douglass, Chris Emdin, Jeff Henig, Henry Levin, Bettina Love, Aaron Pallas, Judith Scott Clayton and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz. 

John Allegrante, delivered presentations on and discussed his new book, Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs, at numerous organizations in China in November, and joined two of the book's co-editors in December to discuss the book during a forum in London at the UCL Institute of Education.

Randall Allsup, Jeanne Goffi-Fynn and Patrick Schmidt presented at the 2024 International Society for Music Education Conference last year in Helsinki. 

Nicole Brittingham Furlonge presented the keynote address at the October 2024 Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools, during which she discussed listening while leading amid conflict.

Drew X. Coles assumed a new position as a Board Member for Jazz and Commercial Music on the Board of Directors of The College Music Society.

Melissa Collier-Meek authored an article selected as a finalist for the Article of the Year Award from the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation.

Noah Drezner was honored as the inaugural recipient of the University of Rochester's President's Award for Inclusive Excellence.

Rajashi Ghosh and Terrence Earl Maltbia served as guest editors of “Advancing Coaching Scholarship,” published in Coaching in Frontiers in Psychology.

Lisa Hochtritt was awarded the distinction of 2025 Distinguished Fellow by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) in recognition of significant contributions to the field.

Jennifer Lena joined legal scholar Brian Soucek and philosopher Jonathan Gilmore for a discussion on Permitting Art: Visual Arts and the First Amendment on the Streets of New York. 

Xiaodong Lin-Siegler delivered the keynote address at the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools’ Leadership Summit. In her remarks, Lin-Siegler — Director of the Education for Persistence and Innovation Center — discussed her research on strategies for educators that leverage failure to improve student success across STEM fields .

Mary Mendenhall was awarded the CIES Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award and was recognized by The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), along with her coauthors, for their book, Education and Resilience in Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Gemma Moya-Galé was honored with the 2025 Fellowship, ASPIRE! Peer and Near-Peer Mentoring Program on behalf of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) Office for Research.

Sonali Rajan spoke about the impact of gun violence on children at “Protecting Public Safety,” an event hosted by the Washington Post.

Michael Rebell was named 2024 Outstanding Public Educator by the Horace Mann League.

Amra Sabic-El-Rayess’  Three Summers was named a School Library Journal’s Best Book of 2024 as well as a Best Book of the Year and Best Coming-of-Age Story of 2024 by Kirkus Reviews. Three Summers was also selected as the cover title for the Kirkus Collection "Islam Around the World: Learning."

Elaine Smolen has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Reviewer Award from the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.

Amina Tawasil presented “Muslimness, Empire, and Fieldwork Under Surveillance in the Islamic Republic of Iran” at the 2024 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) meeting. She also recently delivered the keynote address — "Decolonizing the Ethnographic Experience: Affective Reflexivity in Fieldwork" —  at the Social and Humanitarian Sciences: Public Discourse Conference at Nazarbayev University.