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.
Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesZiqian (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, a New York Tech 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.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, co-authored the book, Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy, published November 2017. It is an advanced reference publication featuring the latest scholarly research on transdisciplinary and transformative assessment practices from primary-level to university-level educational settings.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, had his work cited in "Thinking Small," an article about the future of so-called micro-units published in the political journal Jacobin in November 2017. In that same month, Bloom was quoted in an article in the Gotham Gazette entitled, "De Blasio's Record on NYCHA."
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan 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."
Colleen Kirk
School of Management, MarketingColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., assistant professor of marketing, authored a chapter entitled "When Good Fences Make Good Customers: Exploring Psychological Ownership and Territoriality in Marketing" for the book Theoretical Orientations and Practical Applications of Psychological Ownership. The book, edited by Olckers, van Zyl, and van der Vaart, was published by Springer on November 29, 2017. Kirk's chapter explores the little-understood implications of territoriality in marketing, with a view of territoriality that extends well beyond physical spaces to the boundaries of the extended self. She sheds light on the important contribution territoriality can make to understanding both consumers and marketers alike.
Sheldon Fields
School of Health ProfessionsSheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health Professions, was appointed to the board of directors of the National Black Nurses Association, based in Silver Spring, MD, in November 2017. Also in November, Fields was selected as a 2018 Medal of Distinguished Service recipient by the Binghamton University Alumni Association for his work over several years, especially with the university's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP).