Faculty & Staff Accomplishments

Jonathan Goldman

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was the subject of a feature, "How Jonathan Goldman, Professor and Musician, Spends His Sundays," in The New York Times on April 27, 2018. The article trumpets Goldman's dual career—teaching early-20th-century literature at NYIT by day, leading "Spanglish Fly," a Latin soul and boogaloo group, by night—before leading readers through a typical Sunday with Goldman's family and friends on the Upper West Side.

NAOMI FRANGOS

Naomi Frangos, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, had her curated exhibition of NYIT student work, Inhabiting Surface, Studies in Variable Formwork Design, reviewed by Alex Schweder, in The Architect’s Newspaper, on April 24, 2018. The article, "Trace Solids: Experiments with Fabric Form Concrete on View at NYIT”, focused on student-made fabric form concrete structures produced in a five-day intensive design-build workshop organized and led by Frangos, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Rennie Tang from Cal Poly Pomona, and international experts in fabric form Remo Pedreschi, professor at University of Edinburgh, and Ronnie Araya, a Chilean architect, formerly at C.A.S.T. lab, University of Manitoba.

Melissa Battista

Melissa Battista, M.S., learning specialist at the English Language Institute, made a presentation on "Fostering Personal Identity Through the Use of Technology" at the 39th Annual Applied Linguistics Winter Conference on April 21, 2018 at Teachers College, Columbia University. Battista's presentation provided instructors with ideas on how to incorporate modern technology into language learning and demonstrated assignments and projects that help students to express their personal identity while preparing them for their fields of study and future careers.

Hui-Yin Hsu

Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, served as co-chair of the 2018 Education Solutions International Conference in New York City, April 19-21, 2018. Hsu, along with other members of the Department of Teacher Education and the UNESCO Center for Global Education, organized the conference, which brought together approximately 300 representatives from 20 countries to formulate educational strategies to accomplish UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goal 4: "ensure inclusive and equitable education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all." The Department of Teacher Education received an Education Solutions Stakeholders Partnership Award and Hsu and her colleagues, Robert Feirsen, Ed.D., assistant professor and director of school leadership and technology, Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., professor and associate dean, Melda Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, and Minaz Fazal, Ph.D., assistant professor of teacher education, presented evidence-based transformative education strategies and led the discussions on education solutions.

Milan Toma

Milan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was co-author of a white paper, "Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment Associated with Transcatheter Heart Valve Prostheses: A Position Paper of the ISO Working Group," published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology on April 19, 2018. The paper was drafted by members of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) working group, comprising experts from academia and industry, and represents the position of the group regarding considerations for computational fluid dynamic assessment of transcatheter heart valve substitutes.

Milan Toma

Milan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, gave a talk on traumatic brain injuries at the Mid-Atlantic Brain Research Conference, on April 17, 2018, in North Brunswick, N.J. Toma was one of only twelve presenters at the conference, which was held to provide an overview of brain research in the region and establish a network among researchers.

Jeffrey Raven

Jeffrey Raven, MSt., associate professor and director of the graduate program in architecture, urban and regional design, is the coordinating lead author of the chapter on Urban Planning and Urban Design in a new book, Climate Change and Cities, published on April 16, 2018 by Cambridge University Press. The confluence of research and operational application in this scholarship provides a blueprint for how to convincingly configure sustainable and climate-resilient urban districts. Raven has been presenting this work across multiple platforms and locations worldwide and is organizing workshops with urban designers/urban planners, climatologists, policymakers, stakeholders, and graduate students working side-by-side.

Patricia Happel

John Hanc

John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, had his story, Building Skills Outside the Classroom With New Ways of Learning," published in the special Learning Section of The New York Times on April 5, 2018. The article discusses innovative experiential programs for secondary school students.

Kevin LaGrandeur

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, have been honored to be selected to participate in an NSF I-Corps Boot Camp this spring. Their application was selected by the NYC Regional Innovation Node of the NSF to put them among a select group of entrepreneurs for activities at Columbia University to help develop their project for creating an augmented reality (AR) mobile application for the English classroom.