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.
Dong Zhang
College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Biomedical SciencesDong Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences, had research regarding the treatment of ALT cancers published in a July issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). His team's findings that suggest new synthetic lethal interactions could inhibit the growth of ALT cancer tumors without posing the same toxic effects as the conventional chemotherapy drugs.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences, Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had a new book of poetry, Drugstore Blue, published by Five Oaks Press in July 2017. It is an "edgy yet compassionate and sometimes racy" woman-coming-of-age odyssey where blue eye-makeup takes center stage.
John Hanc
College of Arts & Sciences, Communication ArtsWalter's Way, co-written by John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, was one of four books that received top honors in the Literary Classics International Book Awards, announced July 1, 2017. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Walter's Way won the Lumen Award for Literary Excellence, which honors "extraordinary youth nonfiction literature annually." Additionally, the book won the gold medal in the Nonfiction category of the overall Awards competition.
John Hanc
College of Arts & Sciences, Communication ArtsJohn Hanc, associate professor of communication arts, wrote a cover story, "From LI to France: a Soldier's Illustrated Letters of WWI," for the features section of Newsday on July 29, 2017. It tells about the illustrated letters of Salvador Cilia, a young (and talented) World War I soldier from New York's Lower East Side who did his basic training on Long Island before being deployed to France.
Reza Amineh
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Electrical and Computer EngineeringReza K. Amineh, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored a journal paper with Abhishek Patel, a graduate assistant at NYIT, titled "Sub-Diffraction Holographic Imaging with Resonant Scatterers," which was published in Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 59, July 2017. The article proposes a novel technique to overcome the well-known "diffraction limit" in the resolution in holographic imaging.
Martin Gerdes
College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Biomedical SciencesA. Martin Gerdes, Ph.D., chair of the department of biomedical sciences, was presented with the prestigious Hans Peter Krayenbuehl Memorial Award from the International Academy of Cardiology for his contributions to the field of cardiac function at the 22nd World Congress on Heart Disease in Vancouver in July 2017. The award recognizes his longtime dedication to structural remodeling of the heart related to function.
Hui-Yin Hsu
College of Arts & Sciences Teacher EducationHui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, and Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., associate dean, published a peer-reviewed research paper entitled, "New Literacy Implementation: The Impact of Professional Development on Middle School Student Science Learning," in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology in June 2017.
Wenjia Li
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Computer ScienceWenjia Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science, published two articles, "Policy-Based Secure and Trustworthy Sensing for Internet of Things in Smart Cities," in IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 7.596); and "Effective Social Relationship Measurement and Cluster Based Routing in Mobile Opportunistic Networks," in MDPI Sensors Journal (2016 SCI Impact Factor: 2.677). In addition, he co-authored a paper titled "Energy-Efficient Contact Detection Model in Mobile Opportunistic Networks,".
Marta Panero
School of Engineering & Computing SciencesMarta Panero, Ph.D., director of strategic partnerships, was awarded a grant of $24,783 from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund, sponsored by NAFSA: Association of International Educators and CAF Development Bank of Latin America. Panero won the grant for NYIT's Innovation Across Borders study-abroad program, in collaboration with Instituto Tecnológico de las Americas in the Dominican Republic. Additionally, Panero presented her paper, "Linking Education to Water Sustainability and Lower Carbon Footprint in Latin America," during the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference in Tucson, Arizona.
Jon Schwarting
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureJon Michael Schwarting, M.Arch., professor of architecture, delivered a lecture, "An Urban Theory of Ideal-Formation and Real-Transformation," at the Rowe Rome: Cities of Good Intentions – Urban Design Dialogues conference in Rome, Italy, June 21-23, 2017.