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

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, spoke on a panel, "VR-AR Production on Edge—The Amazing Journey of Imagination: Storytelling in Content and Advertising," at the Digital Hollywood Conference Media Summit on March 8, 2018, in New York City. Rogoff spoke about the Endanger VR game series, partially developed on an interdisciplinary grant from NYIT to develop a game series to find and save Endangered Species, worldwide.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had two of her poems, "To the Know-It-All," and "America," published at New Verse News on January 12 and March 1, 2018, respectively.

John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, had his article, "You Can't Be Afraid of the Tech," published in The New York Times on February 28, 2018. The article, which was featured in a special Retirement section, focused on older adults who had found second careers in tech-related jobs.

Daniel Cinotti, Ph.D., assistant professor of school counseling, was part of a research team that published the article "Collecting School Counseling Group Work Data: Initiating Consensual Qualitative Research Through Practitioner-Researcher Partnerships" in The Journal for Specialists in Group Work on February 16. The article describes the use of an innovative research methodology called "Consensual Qualitative Research" or "CQR" to explore the experiences of interns conducting group counseling in schools. The project was funded by a grant from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had selections from her recent book, Drugstore Blue, translated into Italian by Caterina Roversi and published in the Italian literary magazine clanDestino Rivista on February 7, 2018.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, contributed a chapter, “Art and the Posthuman,” to the book Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, edited by Michael Bess and Diana Walsh Pasulka, and published by Macmillan Reference USA in January 2018.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, contributed a chapter, "Frankenstein, Young and Old: An Interview with Mel Brooks," to the book Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley’s Creation, edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller, and published by Pegasus Books in January 2018.

Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, and Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., professor of education and associate dean, published a chapter titled "Gaming Literacies and Learning" in the book Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy. Hsu and Wang also published an article titled "Rethinking Language Learning: Using audioblogs with English Learners" in the November/December 2017 Issue of Literacy Today, the bimonthly member magazine of the International Literacy Association.

Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, received a featured book review in the December 2017 edition of the Queens Gazette, for his book, The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York.

Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, served as moderator of a panel with HUD regional administrator Lynne Patton at the New York Housing Conference's annual awards event in December 2017. The panel was also featured in an article, "NYCHA Chair Olatoye Calls Lack of Policy Guidance from Ben Carson 'Almost Unconscionable'," in The Real Deal, a New York real estate news journal.