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.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, was honored with various international awards for his book, Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia, published by AR+D Publishing. Those awards included a 2026 AIA NY Design Merit Award (December 1, 2025) and the 2025 Gerd Albers Best Book Award by ISOCARP (January 13, 2026). It was also shortlisted as a finalist for the 2025 On The Brinck Book Award by UNM and the 2026 Architectural Book Awards by Booklaunch London.
Jessica Varghese
School of Health ProfessionsJessica Varghese, Ph.D., RN, assistant professor of nursing, was quoted in MDLinx, a healthcare news outlet, in an article about PFAS (forever chemicals) and food safety, titled, Industrial chemicals in our food and water are reshaping our gut microbiomes, published on January 12, 2026. MDLinx reaches an audience of approximately 150,000 healthcare professionals each month.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was appointed to the Advisory Board of Joyce Studies Annual, an academic journal published at Fordham University, on January 11, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "'Paris, Past and Present': A Report on 'Joyce in Paris,' Irish Embassy, Paris, 14–16 June 2025." The paper was published in James Joyce Quarterly on January 6, 2026.
Eugene Kelly
College of Arts and SciencesEugene Kelly, Ph.D., adjunct professor in the Department of Humanities, published a paper, Revisiting the Concept of the Person and Its Moral Responsibility in Max Scheler and in Edith Stein, in the Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue, Bloomsbury Academic, on January 1, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, contributed a peer-reviewed chapter, "Teaching Ulysses in Nonacademic Spaces," to Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century, published by University Press of Florida on December 16, 2025.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article, entitled "Generational cohort differences in psychological ownership: How does Gen Z come to feel ownership in an intangible world?, in European Journal of Management and Business Economics, a high-quality peer-reviewed journal, on December 11, 2025. This study develops a conceptual framework exploring psychological ownership through a generational lens, highlighting how Gen Z’s sense of ownership is driven by identity expression, control, and security.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, appeared as an invited guest on the Perspective Lab Podcast in the episode "The Architecture of a Driverless City," released on December 7, 2025. Shieh discussed how autonomous vehicles, AI, and new mobility systems will transform the architecture of our streets, the design of public space, and the way we move through cities.
Elaine Brown
College of Arts and SciencesElaine Brown, Ph.D., department chair and associate professor of humanities, conducted a narrative medicine workshop for faculty and students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine on December 3, 2025.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, presented his double-blind peer-reviewed paper "The Future of Mobility: Driverless Urban Futures" at the 2025 Conference of Green Digital Intelligent (GDI) Built Environments in the “Future Ready Smart Cities & Urban Living" conference session, hosted by Auckland University of Technology on December 3, 2025.