Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, co-presented a poster, "Research: Multilingual Multicultural Multimedia: Globally Connected Mobile Learning Projects," at ISTE 2018, June 24, in Chicago, Ill. Her co-presenters included NYIT MSIT graduate Juliet Boone, Fitsum Boone, and Daeon Lynch.

John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, was honored at this year's Press Club of Long Island Media Award ceremony, held on June 7, 2018. Hanc won First Place—Humor Narrative for "He Dumps Trash Can Liner, Faster Time is in the Bag," a column about how he and the NYC Marathon had changed since he last ran the race 30 years ago; Second Place—Lifestyle Feature Narrative for "Scout on a Mission: Troop Turns Back Time," about a local Boy Scout who discovered and restored an overgrown 18th century family cemetery; and Second Place—Profile Narrative for "A Soldier's Art Draws on His WW I Service," the story of Salvatore Cillis, who recounted his war experiences in a series of illustrated letters that were displayed at the New York Historical Society. All of the articles were published in Newsday, where Hanc is a contributing writer.

Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, co-authored a paper, "Assessing the Counseling and Non-Counseling Roles of School Counselors," on June 1, 2018.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, has had her poetry published spring semester 2018 in Calyx, 2 Bridges Review, Muse, Dash, Inscape, Rhino, and other literary journals.

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, gave the closing keynote speech at Creative Tech Week (CTW) at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway on May 11, 2018. Also as part of CTW, she gave a demonstration at the Hive of the VR Endanger Game series that was incubated on an NYIT Institutional Support for Research and Creativity (ISRC) grant.

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, published an article, "How sildenafil (Viagra®) may cause melanoma: a histopathologic study providing a potential physiological/etiopathological mechanism," in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, a peer-reviewed publication, in May 2018. Gagna and his co-authors are the first group to show actual histopathological data to support the idea that Viagra and other similar drugs may cause skin cancer in men who use this drug.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, co-organized the Posthuman Ethics Global Symposium on April 27-28, 2018 in New York City. LaGrandeur also chaired a number of panels and presented his paper, "Emerging Technology, Art and the Posthuman."

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Relationship between nucleic acid structures and sequences on the expression of terminal differentiation (i.e., denucleation): alternative cell death pathway," published online in The FASEB Journal on April 27, 2018. The abstract, presented at the 2018 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, summarizes Gagna's examination of the relationship between exotic DNA and RNA structures (e.g., Z-DNA, triplex DNA, and quadruplex DNA) in terminal differentiation (denucleation), a type of cell death that helps maintain normal physiological systems in humans. Understanding how these exotic forms of DNA regulate denucleation in humans may help one day to treat pathologies, such as cancer.

Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, served as co-chair of the 2018 Education Solutions International Conference in New York City, April 19-21, 2018. Hsu, along with other members of the Department of Teacher Education and the UNESCO Center for Global Education, organized the conference, which brought together approximately 300 representatives from 20 countries to formulate educational strategies to accomplish UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goal 4: "ensure inclusive and equitable education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all." The Department of Teacher Education received an Education Solutions Stakeholders Partnership Award and Hsu and her colleagues, Robert Feirsen, Ed.D., assistant professor and director of school leadership and technology, Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., professor and associate dean, Melda Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, and Minaz Fazal, Ph.D., assistant professor of teacher education, presented evidence-based transformative education strategies and led the discussions on education solutions.

John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, had his story, Building Skills Outside the Classroom With New Ways of Learning," published in the special Learning Section of The New York Times on April 5, 2018. The article discusses innovative experiential programs for secondary school students.