Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented “Ecovering Gwendolyn Brooks's Pedagogy” at the Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, hosted virtually by The New School in New York, NY on May 19, 2021.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was selected as one of the artists in the juried show, What Does Community Look Like to You?, at the Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, Massachusetts. O’Hara’s two photographs, "Encouragement" and "Waiting," draw from her background in social science and arts-based research in particular. During the opening reception on May 8, 2021, O’Hara shared that she considers her photography a phenomenological approach to understanding structures of experience and consciousness. Her aim is to capture the lived experience of her subjects, with a pictorial representation of their situatedness: context within place and space.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, had his article, “Are We Ready for Direct Brain Links to Machines and Each Other? A Real-World Application of Posthuman Bioethics,” published by the Journal of Posthumanism on May 8, 2021.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, “Eva Tanguay's Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism and the Making of 'Personality,'” on CUNY's Gotham Center for New York City History blog on April 15, 2021. The essay examines the career of Tanguay, hugely popular in the early 1900s but largely forgotten now, for her influential role in making racial and gender transgressions intrinsic to 20th Century celebrity.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented “Connecting During Covid” at the 32nd National Service-Learning Conference, April 14, 2021. The virtual conference was offered in a multiple-day, concurrent session format providing attendees a self-directed, facilitated learning environment with online sessions, discussion groups, and interactive workshops. O’Hara’s session provided an overview of using asynchronous online environments to make meaningful connections while quarantining. O’Hara related the details of her Spring and Fall 2020 FCIQ 101 Foundations of Inquiry service project. She presented the process of engaging in experiential learning with community partners, community partner feedback, and anecdotes of undergrad student challenges, as well as successes while sheltering in place during a global pandemic.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, was awarded the Rising Star Alumnus Award from the College of Science & Liberal Arts (CSLA) at New Jersey Institute of Technology on April 9, 2021.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had his research paper, “On the Performance of Multilayered Membrane Filters“ published in the Journal of Engineering Mathematics on March 20, 2021.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, gave a talk and chaired a focus session at the American Physical Society March Meeting on March 17, 2021.

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, gave a talk about the research on superconducting piezoelectric-optomechanical materials at the American Physical Society March Meeting on March 17, 2021.

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled “Impact of the central frequency of environment on non-Markovian dynamics in piezoelectric optomechanical devices” in Scientific Reports on March 10, 2021. This research work, co-authored by Peng Zhao, a New York Tech CoECS master's student and research assistant in the lab of Aydin Farajidavar, Ph.D., discovers a quantitative relation between the central frequency of the environment and the behavior of quantum entanglement in the steady-state of the piezoelectric optomechanical devices in the presence of a non-Markovian environment, which can be applied in the fields of electric/ optical switches and implantable devices, and long-distance distribution in a large-scale quantum network.