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, co-organized a virtual event on Modernist Editing with Byrony Randall, professor of modernist literature and co-director of the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow. Golden and Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English at New York Tech, also gave presentations as part of the event on December 8, 2021.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had his paper "Tissue model shows cells grown at the top of biodegradable scaffold consume nutrients first," featured in AIP Scilight on December 2, 2021.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his former NYU students Zeshun Zong and Xinyu Li, had their article, "Effects of nutrient depletion on tissue growth in a tissue engineering scaffold pore," published in Physics of Fluids on December 2, 2021.
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological & Chemical SciencewsClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (2021 December 1; 32(22): ab1.) (P328), entitled "Comparative Morphological and Molecular Biological Characterization of Bone Tissue Using Different Fixatives." The research project involved New York Tech undergraduate students who helped determine which fixatives are best for the simultaneous preservation of overall bone structure, histology, and DNA content.
Niharika Nath
College of Arts & Sciences Biological & Chemical SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published her article, "Macrophage Reprogramming and Cancer Therapeutics: Role of iNOS-Derived Nitric oxide," in Cells, on November 30, 2021. Nath's article discusses macrophage types, evidence of the roles of nitric oxide in immunomodulation, and the therapeutic options using nitric oxide-dependent strategies.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his current and former students from New York Tech, Carlyn Annunziata, and Hamad El Kahza, and his collaborator Professor Daniel Fong, presented four talks at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, on November 21, 2021.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on "Scholarly Editing and the Archive" at the University of Huddersfield, U.K., virtually, on November 17, 2021.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, discussed her monograph, "Annotating Modernism" (2020), as part of “Modernism and Teaching”, an online event with authors Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, and Benjamin D. Hagen. The event was hosted by the Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text and Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham, UK., on November 10, 2021.
\nElizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at the College of Liberal Arts, Wenzhou Kean University, Wenzhou, China, via Zoom, on November 1, 2021.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Many Giants of Black Baseball," an article about the numerous NYC Black baseball teams and the ballparks they were playing in as the first-ever all-NYC World Series went on one hundred years ago, in the Village Voice on October 28, 2021.