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.
Edgar Papazian
School of Archtecture and DesignEdgar Papazian, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, has published an article on Drawing Matter, a website for a charitable trust based in the United Kingdom, that explores the role of drawing in architectural thought. The March 16, 2026, article, titled "Baroqsysms," describes his use of artificial intelligence in revealing aspects of Italian Baroque facades through orthographic drawing-to-photograph interpolations in the form of short animations.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Opening of the Savoy, the Most Inclusive Club in Harlem, 100 Years Ago" in the Sycopated Times, on March 11, 2026. The Savoy was the first New York City venue to disregard Jim Crow practices.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper, "Prevalence and Clinical Patterns of Piriformis Syndrome Among Actively Competing and Retired Elite Hockey Players," in Sports, on March 2, 2026. The study revealed that over a quarter (25.4%) of high-level hockey players experience substantial symptoms of piriformis syndrome, highlighting a significant but previously under-recognized health issue in this athletic population.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was formally accepted as a senior member into the National Academy of Inventors on February 26, 2026.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper, "Chatting Ain't Diagnosing: Diagnostic Variability and Fundamental Errors in Multimodal LLM Interpretation in Radiology," in Algorithms, an academic journal, published on February 25, 2026. The paper systematically evaluated five leading multimodal large language models (including GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, Llama 4 Maverick, Grok 4, and Claude Opus 4.5 Extended) on a standardized radiological interpretation task. The authors found a high rate of fundamental diagnostic errors and significant variability between models, even on straightforward cases. Sungjoon Hong, a NYITCOM first-year medical student, and Mihir Matalia, development security operations engineer from the NYITCOM Academic Technologies Group, were co-authors of the paper.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, working with New York Tech medical students Rachel Lee and Sarah Landman, have published a research paper, "Feature-Limited Performance in Machine Learning Prediction of Endometriosis from Clinical Symptoms," in the academic journal Medical Research Archives, on February 24, 2026. The paper highlights the ongoing challenges women face in healthcare, particularly with conditions like endometriosis that are historically underdiagnosed and under-researched. This paper underscores the urgent need for better diagnostic tools and richer data sources.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, published "Teaching Multicultural Counseling: A Phenomenological Exploration of Counselor Educators’ Voices," in the Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision. She was the first author of the article, published on February 16, 2026.
Sebastien Marion
LibrarySebastien Marion, M.L.I.S., M.B.A., librarian III, and Eduardo Rivera, librarian III, have been awarded a Long Island Library Resource Council (LILRC) grant as co-principal investigators. The project, "Building AI Fluency Through Prompt Engineering: A Scalable Model for Long Island Libraries," was awarded on February 11, 2026, and will pilot Long Island’s first shared Prompt Engineering Literacy Toolkit, aligned with the Association of College and Research Libraries AI Competencies.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, co-wrote an article on science news site The Conversation. It focused on using AI to write Valentine's messages. The article, Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine’s Day messages a good idea?, was also published in Fast Company magazine on February 8, 2026. The research suggests that having AI fully ghostwrite heartfelt Valentine’s messages can backfire by triggering guilt and reducing authenticity (a “source-credit discrepancy”). The article recommends using AI for brainstorming while ensuring the final note is meaningfully one's own. Her research, on the same topic, was cited in a Washington Post article on February 9, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article "Luis Muñoz Marín: Boricua Modernism between Poetics and Politics" in the collection "Jim Crow Modernism" (Oxford Universty Press), on February 6, 2026. The article analyzes the 1920s fiction, verse, and journalism of Luis Muñoz Marín, written two-plus decades before Marín became the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.