Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA Microarrays," published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, on December 13, 2018. The abstract, as presented at the 2018 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, is connected to his research, based on the Gagna/NYIT patent, for the next generation of DNA microarrays, where he is developing prototypes of double-stranded left-handed Z-DNA microarrays. Z-DNA is an alternative form of DNA that plays a major role in regulating human cells. These prototypes, which represent the next generation of DNA microarrays, will be part of an STTR-NIH grant to commercialize them as biomedical research products for sale to scientists to use in a variety of research projects.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, representing the Forum for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on December 13, 2018.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, "Happy Birthday, Scrooge!" online at Penn State University Press on December 3, 2018.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, launched the paperback publication of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton by University Press of Florida at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on November 28, 2018. The event, which included an introduction by Golden and readings by writers Deirdre Coyle, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Briallen Hopper, was live streamed to Facebook.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, served as a panelists at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLA) conference, SLSA 2018-Out of Mind, November 11-18, 2018, discusing their augmented reality app to teach Shakespeare, "Out of (Shakespeare’s) Mind and into the Classroom: Our Augmented Reality App for Teaching Hamlet.” Misak and LaGrandeur are currently developing and beta testing an Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone application to use in an English classroom to help college-level students experience Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a more intimate, immersed way.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her paper, “Airless Spaces: Schizophrenia and the Relations of Narrative Production,” as part of a Neurodiversity/Neuronarrative panel at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) annual conference in Toronto, Ontario on November 16, 2018.

Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 42nd Biennial International Conference of the Association of Psychological and Educational Counselors of the Asia-Pacific (APECA), November 14-16, 2018 in Manila, Philipenes.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published Cancelled in Purple: Alice Walker’s Virginia Woolf Calendar in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Volume 3, Cycle 3, on November 13, 2018.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, published an article, A (Virtual) Bridge Not Too Far: Teaching Narrative Sense of Place with Virtual Reality," in Computers and Composition, Volume 50 on November 13, 2018. The article explains how virtual reality (VR) games can help students realize the importance of narrative sense of place and outlines a VR exercise for students to experience immersion as a parallel to how written works transport readers to their environments.

Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 18th Annual Convention of the School Counseling Circle of the Philippines, November 13-14, 2018 in Manilla, Philipenes.