Faculty and Alumni Pen New Works

Members of the New York Tech community, including faculty and alumni, recently published new literature, offering their unique insights, expertise, and experiences across fiction and nonfiction landscapes.

Robert Alexander, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology and Counseling
“Fixational eye movements: implications for applied and clinical assessments”
This chapter by Alexander, published in the book Retina Structure, Function, and Genetics, is aimed at clinicians. Highlighting applications for eye movement measurements in the diagnosis and treatment of various clinical disorders, it translates theoretical cognitive science into clinical relevance and technological innovation.

Adam Berch (M.A. ’04)
SOAR
Berch’s debut novel explores the science fiction genre as he tells the story of a young woman, Emma. Following the loss of her younger brother, Emma finds herself adrift and lonely. Her only escape comes from the unexpected discovery that she can fly. Readers will follow Emma’s emotional arc as she fights for freedom and self-acceptance.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Humanities
Home Boys
Publishing in mid-April, DiMatteo’s memoir draws loosely upon his 10-year stay in a group home for boys, where he was the live-in supervisor. The book spans all of New York City and its five family courts, telling tales of children and parents caught in life-altering situations, fueled by success, failure, love, and hate.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., Professor, Humanities
“Teaching Ulysses in Nonacademic Spaces”
As seen in the book Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century, Goldman’s peer-reviewed chapter is one of a collection from leading scholars who teach the works of 19th-century author James Joyce. Goldman’s thoughts contribute to the discussion of how today’s instructors use pedagogical techniques to adapt the study of Joyce’s work for the contemporary classroom.

Jeffrey Raven, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Architecture
Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action
Raven’s peer-reviewed book contains benchmarked knowledge and city projections for urban climate change researchers, city practitioners, and policymakers at all levels of government to motivate rapid action. Analysis provides readers insight into how climate-resilient development principles can impact the built environment’s influence on both people’s and nature’s well-being.

Linda Stasi (B.F.A. ’70)
The Descendant
Stasi’s latest novel is based on the real events her family faced as they settled in Colorado from Sicily. This historically inspired narrative and sweeping family saga is told through the lives of Italian women who fought against impossible odds as they helped settle the West.

Milan Toma, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
AI-Assisted Medical Diagnostics: A Clinical Guide to Next-Generation Diagnostics and Diagnosing AI: Evaluation of AI in Clinical Practice
In AI-Assisted Medical Diagnostics, Toma offers readers a detailed, clinically oriented examination of the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning into medical diagnostics and healthcare delivery. A practical resource for clinicians, researchers, and healthcare administrators, the work explores how AI technologies are being adopted while critically addressing consequential challenges and opportunities.

Toma’s most recent work, Diagnosing AI, serves as a guide for clinicians, data scientists, and decision-makers at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine. As AI continues to have widespread growth in healthcare settings, this book provides a clear, evidence-based framework for understanding their true capabilities and limitations in clinical deployment.

Tanya H. Van Cott, M.I.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor, Architecture
Bandwidth
Van Cott’s science fiction drama follows two strangers from different continents as artificial intelligence manipulates them to meet and save the world from a climate disaster. A New York architect and an Italian engineer must come together, despite all the risks they know it entails.

Select works, including those written by Berch, Goldman, Raven, Toma, and Van Cott, are available to borrow through several New York Tech library locations.