Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered remarks in a book roundtable celebrating the publication of Black Madness: Mad Blackness, with author Therí Alyce Pickens, at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, in New York City on November 12, 2019.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a poster about "Experimental Engagements" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of California in Irvine, California on November 9, 2019.

Terry Nauheim, M.F.A., associate professor of digital art and design, Michael Hosenfeld, associate professor of digital art and design, Paul Demonte, M.A., adjunct instructor of communication arts, Adrienne McNally, M.S., director of experiential education, and Amy Bravo, M.A., senior director of international and experiential education, presented at AACU's Transforming STEM Higher Education conference on November 9, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Their presentation, “Strategies for Reforming Academic Models to Support Community Partnership,” spoke about Ready for Take-Off, a student-driven documentary film project that raises public awareness about flight, mobility, and advancement for people with disabilities. Ready for Take-Off engaged students and faculty of New York Tech to produce a short documentary film, commemorating the fifth anniversary of a JetBlue flight for disabled high school students of the Henry Viscardi School of the Viscardi Center.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English presented “An AR Hamlet Mystery” at the Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, in Irvine, California on October 31, 2019.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of Englisha and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered her paper, “Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: Sylvia Plath’s Experimental Engagements with Spoiled Identities,” at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts annual conference in Irvine, California, on November 8, 2019.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored an article with Hamed Behzad, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, titled “On optimizing the wave energy converters configuration in a farm,” published on November 6, 2019, about how finite arrays of bottom-hinged flap-type wave energy converters are modeled using a numerical approach. The converters are similar to the ones from Aquamarine Power, which is called Oyster, using ANSYS-AQWA as software for numerical simulation. The goal of this study is to optimize the annual energy absorption of a farm depending on the lateral and vertical spacing between converters based on a wave-spectrum case study.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English were interviewed by the internet business magazine, Hypergrid Business. They were quoted in the article, “Profs Bring Hamlet into AR,” where they spoke about their project to bring Hamlet into the classroom as an Augmented Reality game. The article was published on October 31, 2019.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered a Keynote Lecture and Workshop at the 'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Drawing Out the Public Sphere, symposium at Syracuse University, in Syracuse, N.Y. Her lecture, “'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities,” was presented on October 29, 2019, and her workshop, “Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” was presented on October 30, 2019, at the Symposium.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was an invited speaker at the Artist Talk Series: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook, Brooklyn on October 26, 2019. O’Hara’s talk, "Capturing Lived Experience," explained her use of arts-based methods in her social science research.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, presented her paper, “Mental Health America: A Lost History of Patient Self-Advocacy and Professional Collaboration in Psychiatric Care,” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 25, 2019.