Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "A Black Coney Island, Cancelled" in Callalloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. The September 8, 2026, article addresses Solomon Riley, a Black businessman who planned an amusement park for Black customers on Hart Island in the East River in 1925—when New York City operated under Jim Crow practices—only to see the city government shut it down.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, coauthored and published a research paper, "A Phenomenological Investigation of the Nexus between New York State Education Department’s School Counseling Policy and Practice in New York State" on September 3, 2026, in Journal of School-Based Counseling, Policy and Evaluation. The article examined school counselors' experiences in implementing the updated New York State School Counseling Regulations in schools.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, curated an exhibition titled "From Mono- to Multi-: Adaptive Post-Industrial Futures for Mono-functional Infrastructures," at FXC Gallery in Brooklyn with a team of New York Tech B.Arch student design and research assistants. The exhibition launched on July 30, 2026, with an opening reception and lecture and closed on August 27.
Wei Zeng
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesWei Zeng, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published a research article, “A 3D mesomechanical modeling framework for skeletal muscle: Influence of fascicle architecture and ECM volume on mechanical behavior,” in Engineering Advances on August 8, 2026. It developed a 3D mesoscale finite element framework for skeletal muscle modeling and quantified effects of fascicle architecture and ECM volume on muscle mechanical behavior.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published an article, "Beyond Sequence: Building the Next Generation of Structural Genomics Platforms," in Bio IT World on July 31, 2026. This article discusses the emerging field of structural genomics, emphasizing the biological importance of canonical and noncanonical DNA and RNA structures. It describes the need for integrated computational platforms that combine structural prediction, analysis, visualization, and artificial intelligence to better understand gene regulation, genomic instability, disease, and precision medicine.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave talks in early July 2026 in the United Kingdom about The Poems of Sylvia Plath, which she co-edited with Karen V. Kukil. She spoke at the Bradford Literary Festival in Bradford; at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford; at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School, held at Merton College, University of Oxford; at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution; and at Daunt Books, Cheapside, London.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementResearch on the "AI-authorship effect" by Colleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, was recently featured in a July 2, 2026, T. Rowe Price article on how financial advisors can use AI in client communications without eroding trust. The article cited Kirk's research showing that clients can experience a sense of moral disgust when they learn that emotionally meaningful messages, such as birthday greetings or condolences, were generated by AI rather than written personally.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented on the roundtable "Editorial Oddities" and chaired the panel "Weird Personae & Weird Visions" at the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) / British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) Conference in Loughborough, England, on July 2, 2026. As vice president of the MSA, Golden also served on the conference organizing committee. New York Tech architecture major Maggie Viti designed the conference program, with support from a Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave two talks about The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a new edition that she co-edited with Karen V. Kukil. These events were held at the Exeter Library and Ledbury Poetry Festival, in England, on June 25, 2026. She also gave a lecture on Sylvia Plath and the poet Dylan Thomas at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales, on June 27, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation to New York City's Village Preservation Society on June 25, 2026. Goldman focused on historical material about 1920s Greenwich Village and NYC generally drawn from his new book Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange.