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.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, hosted the Long Island Physics Teachers Association meeting on the Long Island campus on May 20, 2023. Teachers held discussion on AP physics exam. Bhattacharjee presented information about the New York Tech Physics, B.S. program to teachers from 10 different school districts on Long Island. The event was featured in the LIPTA Spring 23 newsletter.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, spoke at the American Physical Society April Meeting 2023 on April 25, 2023, in a virtual session. She presented work from her recent paper, on the topic of "New Results in the D3/D5 Supersymmetric Defect CFT."
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, gave an invited presentation at the Sylvia Plath Symposium, held at Hunter College's Roosevelt House in New York on March 30, 2023.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/HumJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, recently published an article, "The James Joyce Society at 75 Years," in The James Joyce Literary Supplement, a peer-reviewed publication, on March 22, 2023.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/HumJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was a featured panelist at a public program, "James Joyce's Ulysses - 100 Years Later," held at the New School in New York City on March 14, 2023. Goldman presented a paper titled "Ulysses, Style, and Joyce's Multiverse."
Kate E. O'Hara
CAS/ Humanties/Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Ugh! Not Another Research Paper! Designing and Implementing a Humanistic Interdisciplinary Project" at The Conference on Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World on February 20-22, 2023, in Savannah, GA. In her interactive presentation, O’Hara shared details of implementing a humanistic interdisciplinary project that provides undergraduate students with opportunities for qualitative and quantitative research, independent learning, and problem-solving. Drawing from tenets of critical pedagogy, photovoice, participatory action, and intergenerational studies, students engage in scholarly inquiry within fully online and hybrid environments.
Nayoung Kim
College of Arts and SciencesNayoung Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral science, published her article, "Integrative Developmental Model for Narrative Supervision," published in the
Jonathan Goldman
cas/humJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk, "The Modernist Super-Individual: Personality, Celebrity, Brand-Names," for Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, on January 5, 2023. The talk focused on changes to the idea of personhood during the late 18th/early 19th centuries, including discussions of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eva Tanguay, Babe Ruth, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Harry Houdini, and Superman.
\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published the chapter, “Lyric ‘Unpunctuation’: W. S. Merwin’s Early New Yorker Correspondence,” in the collection Reading W. S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives, edited by Cheri Colby Langdell and published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 2, 2023.
Jennifer Griffiths
College of Arts and SciencesJennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a new monograph, At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era, with the University Press of Mississippi's Cultures of Childhood series, on December 16, 2022. The book focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed within the scope of a sociological “problem,” all while trying to expand.