Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to share recent accomplishments from our faculty and staff members.

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Ronald Yaros, Ph.D., University of Maryland had their article,"Completing College Writing Assignments on Mobile Phones: Comparing Students’ Attitudes and Engagement Across Disciplines and Age" published in the Journalism and Mass Communication on September 4, 2020.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, in collaboration with members of New Jersey Institute of Technology had a research paper “On the influence of pore connectivity on performance of membrane filters,” published by Cambridge University Press on September 3, 2020

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, had his research paper, “Quantumness protection for open systems in a double-layer environment,” published in the Journal of Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy on May 1, 2020. This work provides a proposal to protect the quantumness of open systems in the framework of a double-layer noisy environment.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was interviewed for a podcast hosted by Posthumans.org on August 31, 2020. He spoke about his most recent book, Surviving the Machine Age.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, Summer 2020, on August 20, 2020, for Dead Shark on the N Train, published by Broadstone Books.

Jamel Vanderburg, adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, was mentioned in the 2020 Young People For Alumni Report, published on August 12, 2020, for his civic engagement work with students at New York Tech.

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was elected as a Fellow into The Royal Society of Chemistry on August 5, 2020.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, discussed her book, Annotating Modernism, with the New York City Irish Studies Symposium as part of an event called "Sylvia Plath and Irish Modernism," on July 27, 2020.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had a research paper, “Effects of Particles Diffusion on Membrane Filters Performance,” published in MDPI on July 24, 2020. He worked on this paper along with his former students Shi Yue Liu and Zhengyi Chen at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was appointed to the editorial board of the new refereed journal The Journal of Posthumanism on July 20, 2020. "The Journal of Posthumanism is an international multilingual peer-reviewed scholarly journal promoting innovative work to transverse the fields ranging from social sciences, humanities, and arts to medicine and STEM. In line with the efforts of creating a broad network beyond disciplinary boundaries, the journal seeks to explore what it means to be human in this technologically-saturated, ecologically damaged world."