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.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a virtual keynote presentation entitled "Office Hours: Sylvia Plath, Pedagogy, and the Archive" at the Sylvia Plath Society Conference, on March 11, 2022.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a virtual talk on "'The Grim Keys of My Smug Typewriter': On the Material Practice(s) of Sylvia Plath" for Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, on March 8, 2022.
Kate E. O'Hara
Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Theory into Practice: Implementing a Humanistic Approach" at the Conference on Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World in Savannah, Georgia, on March 1, 2022. In her interactive presentation, O’Hara shared details of instructional design for implementing a humanistic approach that provides undergraduate students with opportunities for learning about subject matter that is of personal interest and applicable to the "real world," fostering students' desire to learn while teaching them how to learn, as well as tips on how to design meaningful holistic, project-based instructional activities within fully online and hybrid environments.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, "Beltrami–Bernoulli equilibria in weakly rotating self-gravitating fluid," to Cambridge Core's Journal of Plasma Physics, on February 22, 2022. Bhattacharjee's work outlines the fluid velocity profile in a rotating self-gravitating star in presence of a "magnetic-type" gravitational field.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his abstract, "New omics platform - nucleic acid structural spatial genome organization, i.e., genomesorganizomics: multiplex immunofluorescent demonstration of B-DNA, Z-DNA, and quadruplex DNA," in the Biophysical Journal, on February 11, 2022. The abstract describes a novel method which demonstrated, for the first time, the spatial genomic organization of three different DNAs concurrently in human tissues; a technique that will help researchers better understand gene expression.
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College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk on "Reading Sylvia Plath Now," hosted virtually by Bedlam Book Cafe. The event was also the paperback launch of Golden's monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, on February 11, 2022.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his article, "Otto Warburg versus Molecular Biologists: Who Is Correct About Human Carcinogenesis, and Why Does It Matter to Dermatologists?," concerning a new approach to cancer research, based on the work of the famous biochemist, Otto H. Warburg, and his hypothesis, i.e., the Warburg Effect, in Skinmed on February 3, 2022. The article focuses on how this approach to determine the origins of human cancer, which are still not fully understood, applies to pathologies of human skin.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Difficult Odyssey of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’," in the Village Voice, on January 31, 2022. The article celebrates the centenary of Joyce's novel Ulysses and specifically the women who helped it reach the public: New Yorkers Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Josephine Bell, and Frances Steloff, plus Sylvia Beach, Harriet Shaw Weaver, Josephine Murray, and of course Nora Barnacle. "Their efforts and sacrifices to support, publish, and promulgate Joyce’s work, and the disrespect and other [stuff] they put up with, were essential to the journey of Ulysses from Joyce’s hands into ours."
Kate E. O'Hara
Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, published her chapter “Transcending and Transforming: Teaching and Learning in the Time of Covid 19,” in the edited volume, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises, from Information Age Publishing on December 30, 2021. O’Hara’s chapter is part of a scholarly collection of creative pieces; stories of lived curricula. The chapter is a shared narrative, interspersed with writing and anecdotes from undergraduate students working remotely on a service-learning project. The shared narrative illuminates experiences of overcoming challenges while sheltering in place, contextualized in relation to Friere and van Manen, and identifying and articulating personal transformations.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, had her monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, (hardcover, 2020), published in paperback by Routledge on December 13, 2021.