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

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his article, "Otto Warburg versus Molecular Biologists: Who Is Correct About Human Carcinogenesis, and Why Does It Matter to Dermatologists?," concerning a new approach to cancer research, based on the work of the famous biochemist, Otto H. Warburg, and his hypothesis, i.e., the Warburg Effect, in Skinmed on February 3, 2022. The article focuses on how this approach to determine the origins of human cancer, which are still not fully understood, applies to pathologies of human skin.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Difficult Odyssey of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’," in the Village Voice, on January 31, 2022. The article celebrates the centenary of Joyce's novel Ulysses and specifically the women who helped it reach the public: New Yorkers Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Josephine Bell, and Frances Steloff, plus Sylvia Beach, Harriet Shaw Weaver, Josephine Murray, and of course Nora Barnacle. "Their efforts and sacrifices to support, publish, and promulgate Joyce’s work, and the disrespect and other [stuff] they put up with, were essential to the journey of Ulysses from Joyce’s hands into ours."

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, published her chapter “Transcending and Transforming: Teaching and Learning in the Time of Covid 19,” in the edited volume, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises, from Information Age Publishing on December 30, 2021. O’Hara’s chapter is part of a scholarly collection of creative pieces; stories of lived curricula. The chapter is a shared narrative, interspersed with writing and anecdotes from undergraduate students working remotely on a service-learning project. The shared narrative illuminates experiences of overcoming challenges while sheltering in place, contextualized in relation to Friere and van Manen, and identifying and articulating personal transformations.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, had her monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, (hardcover, 2020), published in paperback by Routledge on December 13, 2021.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, co-organized a virtual event on Modernist Editing with Byrony Randall, professor of modernist literature and co-director of the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow. Golden and Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English at New York Tech, also gave presentations as part of the event on December 8, 2021.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his former NYU students Zeshun Zong and Xinyu Li, had their article, "Effects of nutrient depletion on tissue growth in a tissue engineering scaffold pore," published in Physics of Fluids on December 2, 2021.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had his paper "Tissue model shows cells grown at the top of biodegradable scaffold consume nutrients first," featured in AIP Scilight on December 2, 2021.

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (2021 December 1; 32(22): ab1.) (P328), entitled "Comparative Morphological and Molecular Biological Characterization of Bone Tissue Using Different Fixatives." The research project involved New York Tech undergraduate students who helped determine which fixatives are best for the simultaneous preservation of overall bone structure, histology, and DNA content.

Niharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published her article, "Macrophage Reprogramming and Cancer Therapeutics: Role of iNOS-Derived Nitric oxide," in Cells, on November 30, 2021. Nath's article discusses macrophage types, evidence of the roles of nitric oxide in immunomodulation, and the therapeutic options using nitric oxide-dependent strategies.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his current and former students from New York Tech, Carlyn Annunziata, and Hamad El Kahza, and his collaborator Professor Daniel Fong, presented four talks at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, on November 21, 2021.