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.
David Nadler
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences Environmental Technology & SustainabilityDavid Nadler, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Technology and Sustainability," presented the poster, "Incorporating Stormwater Management into an Environmental Curriculum," at the Science, Business, and Education of Sustainable Infrastructure conference, hosted by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) in Washington, DC, January 23-25, 2018.
Deborah Cohn
School of Management MarketingDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing, was a featured speaker at “Innovation in the Retail Industry," an event co-sponsored by New York Institute of Technology and the Brazilian Franchising Association (ABF) on January 19, 2018 in New York City. Cohn's presentation was on "The Future of Retail."\n
Jon Schwarting
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureJon Michael Schwarting, M.Arch., professor of architecture, exhibited drawings from his book, Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy, from January 15 to February 2, 2018, and participated in a day-long seminar on January 25, related to his book.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, contributed a chapter, "Frankenstein, Young and Old: An Interview with Mel Brooks," to the book Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley’s Creation, edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller, and published by Pegasus Books in January 2018.
\nZiqian (Cecilia) Dong
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences Electrical & Computer EngineeringZiqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, had an article titled "Feature reduction for classification of daily activities through kinematic data from smartphones,"\n published in Smart Health, Vol. 5-6, Pages 40-50, ISBN 2352-6483, January 2018. The article was co-authored by Yu Wan, an NYIT graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Hui-Yin Hsu
College of Arts & Sciences Teacher EducationHui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, and Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., professor of education and associate dean, published a chapter titled "Gaming Literacies and Learning" in the book Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy. Hsu and Wang also published an article titled "Rethinking Language Learning: Using audioblogs with English Learners" in the November/December 2017 Issue of Literacy Today, the bimonthly member magazine of the International Literacy Association.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, received a featured book review in the December 2017 edition of the Queens Gazette, for his book, The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, served as moderator of a panel with HUD regional administrator Lynne Patton at the New York Housing Conference's annual awards event in December 2017. The panel was also featured in an article, "NYCHA Chair Olatoye Calls Lack of Policy Guidance from Ben Carson 'Almost Unconscionable'," in The Real Deal, a New York real estate news journal.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented the paper "'Different from what it is': Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems," and chaired the session "Teaching and Learning in Sylvia Plath Studies and Women's Studies: Community Engagement, Digital Humanities, and Service Learning" at the Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words, and Fragments Conference held at the University of Ulster, in Belfast, UK in November 2017. As part of her paper presentation, Golden also displayed a previously unseen photograph of Sylvia Plath.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his new book, Joyce and the Law, published by the University Press of Florida in November 2017. The book is a collection of insights by "a tremendous group of scholars, critics, and legal practitioners" who are "[m]aking the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, [offering] new insights into Joyce's most important texts. They analyze Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in light of the legal contexts of Joyce's day."