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.
Christina Finn
School of Health Professions, Occupational TherapyChristina Finn, M.S., assistant professor of occupational therapy and clinical associate of the NYIT Center for Sports Medicine, presented her poster, "The Role of Occupational Therapy in Concussion Management," at the 2017 AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association) Annual Conference and Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia. While there, she gave an interview on the role of occupational therapy in the treatment of concussions, which was promoted on social media sites by ImPACT Applications, Inc., the maker of the leading computerized concussion management tool.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, launched her new book, The Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton, at a roundtable event on April 2017 at The New York Public Library. Golden moderated the event, which convened poets and critics featured in her collection of essays—the first devoted to Sexton's poetry in more than two decades.
Hui-Yin Hsu
College of Arts & Sciences Teacher EducationHui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., chair of the Department Teacher Education, and Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D. presented a paper, "The Impact of New Literacy Practices Professional Development on Students' Reading and Science Learning Outcomes" at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting in Texas. Hsu also presented, "Impact of Teachers' Uses of the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-Based Learning Environment (SMILE) to Enact Student-Generated Questioning Practices in Science Classrooms."
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was quoted at length in "Robophobia: Bridging the Uncanny Valley," an article at asme.org, the website of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In his quote, LaGrandeur laments the slow adoption of robotics in North America and Europe versus their growing acceptance in Japanese households.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D. had an article, "Textbook Greek: Thoby Stephen in Jacob's Room," published in the 2017 volume of Woolf Studies Annual, a "refereed journal publishing substantial new scholarship on the work of Virginia Woolf and her milieu."
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, gave the invited lecture, "Writing Madness: Fredric Wertham and the Psychiatric Utility of Literature," at Columbia University's Disability, Culture, and Society seminar series in March 2017. The seminar "provided a venue for scholars working in disability studies—which examines the social, political, cultural, and historical factors that define disability—to interrogate the current state of the field and identify the most crucial problems and concerns for its future."
William Werner
School of Health Professions, Physical TherapyWilliam Werner, Ed.D.,associate professor of physical therapy, co-authored "The Reliability of the Sensory Organization Test in Parkinson's Disease to Identify Fall Risk," which was published in the International Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy in March 2017.
Sarah Meyland
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Environmental Technology and SustainabilitySarah Meyland, M.S., associate professor of environmental technology and sustainability, gave a public testimony in person and in writing at the hearing by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for New York City regarding the opening of NYC wells in Jamaica, Queens on June 2017.
Anand Santhanakrishnan
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAnand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.,assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored "Joint Spectrum and Energy Efficiency in Device to Device Communication Enabled Wireless Networks," which was published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks (March 2017). The project was funded by an NYIT ISRC grant.
Fang Li
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Mechanical EngineeringFang Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, recently co-authored three journal papers: "The Influence of the Electrode Dimension on the Detection Sensitivity of Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) and its Mathematical Modeling" in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical ; "Simulation Study of MEMS Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester Based on C-Axis Tilted AlN Thin Film for Performance Improvement" in AIP Advances; and "A Novel Ropes-Driven Wideband Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester" in Applied Sciences.