Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was appointed to the editorial board of the new interdisciplinary journal, AI and Ethics on June 16, 2020. The journal will be published by Springer.

Andrew Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral sciences, appeared on Fox and Friends First on June 2, 2020, about the riots in New York City and the lackluster response of the Governor and Mayor.

Niharika Nath, Ph.D, professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a perspective titled, “Tumor associated macrophages and, 'NO'” in the June 2020 issue of Journal of Biochemical Pharmocology. he article discusses how nitric oxide gaseous signaling molecule may program and reprogram macrophages that can go onto either promote or prevent tumor growth.

Niharika Nath, Ph.D, professor of biological and chemical sciences, and her student Thuy Tien Le (B.S.'15) published a research paper, “NOSH-aspirin (NBS-1120) inhibits pancreatic cancer cell growth in a xenograft mouse model: Modulation of FoxM1, p53, NF-κB, iNOS, caspase-3 and Reactive oxygen species, ” in Biochemical Pharmacology on June 2, 2020. The article demonstrates the anti-cancer potential of nitric oxide—and hydrogen sulfide—donating hybrid molecule of aspirin.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her book of poems, Dead Shark on the N Train, published on June 1, 2020 by Broadstone Books.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented “'It bides its time': Sylvia Plath's Library and The Earthenware Head” at the Sylvia Plath Zoomposium on May 30, 2020.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, gave a talk titled “Why it is Helpful and Dangerous to Use AI to Fight Covid” at the The Philosophical and Political Implications of Covid19 and the Posthuman symposium, on May 30, 2020. The symposium was organized by the NY Posthuman Research Group and NYU. LaGrandeur talk was attended by 250 people from around the world, from countries including China, India, South Korea, and in the Middle East and Europe.

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, had his research paper, “Exact entanglement dynamics mediated by leaky optical cavities&,rdquo; published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics on May 27, 2020.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his article, “The New York City Overalls Parade, 1920,” published on CUNY's The Gotham Center for New York City History website on May 26, 2020. Goldman's article is an offshoot of his ISRC-Grant-sponsored project, “New York 1920: When We Became Modern."

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, discussed her book, Annotating Modernism, on the Plath & Co podcast, hosted by Eilish Mulholland on May 21, 2020.