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.
Mohammed Moizuddin
Office of Institutional ResearchMohammed Moizuddin, director, Office of Institutional Research, and Monika Rohde, senior associate dean, Office of Undergraduate Student Success and Advising, were guests on the ASCEND Podcast on November 7, 2024. They discussed retention strategies at Ne York Tech; this episode was recorded at the National Symposium on Student Retention.
Alessandro Melis
School of Architecture and DesignAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation endowed chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, Heliopolis 21, the architecture firm founded and led by Melis, has achieved success in two international competitions to design a hospital and a sports complex in Italy. The first project is the new Palasport in Lucca, with an estimated construction cost of 25 million euros. Construction is expected to commence at the end of 2025, following the completion of the detailed design phase. In February 2025, work will begin on the Stella Maris Hospital and Research Center, which focuses on neuropathologies in children. This facility is unique in Italy as it is exclusively dedicated to Autism. The design, created by Alessandro Melis and his partners at Heliopolis 21, emerged from a successful international competition.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., associate professor of architecture, delivered a lecture on November 4, 2024, titled "Imagining the Impossible: The Demilitarized Zone as a Proving Ground" for the fall 2024 NC State School of Architecture and AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series "Critical Zones."
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, spoke at “How She Sang: Celebrating the Life and Work of Poet Anne Sexton, 1928-1974," held at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., on October 30, 2024.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, wrote a letter to the editor of the American Chemical Society's Chemical & Engineering News. The letter, "Reactions: Attrition in science and noncanonical structures for DNA-based computers," was published on October 27, 2024. Gagna responded to an important article written on how double-stranded DNA could replace silicon chips in the future; he suggested that researchers need to think beyond the canonical, traditional Watson-Crick right-handed double-stranded B-DNA, to take advantage of other DNA structures.
\nEvan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, published his book Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia with the publisher Applied Research + Design (AR+D), an imprint of ORO Editions. A culmination of several years of research, the 480-page, two-volume, research and design monograph explores the latent and transformative impact autonomous vehicles will have on cities' urban and spatial future. The book was launched as a public lecture at the School of Architecture and Design on October 23, 2024, as part of its 2024 Fall Lecture + Events series "Worlds Un/Designed".
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article, Editors and Journals: Part III- "Sto Tavo (Who is in Charge)?" on October 22, 2024. The article addresses various issues related to publishing peer-reviewed journal articles by academics, researchers, editors, and journals.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, and Farzana Gandhi, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, gave a joint lecture at the 2024 New York City Architecture Biennale, which was held across a three-day event, October 17 – 19, 2024. Shieh and Gandhi spoke on Day 3 of the Biennale around the theme of "Technology," speaking on the role of technology in their recent research and practice, and the common ground and values that overlap between their work in different topical contexts.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, received the 2024 Stretto Alumni Achievement Award at the inaugural gala of the Stretto Youth Chamber Orchestra, held at the Watershed Institute on October 19, 2024. A 2003–2007 alumnus, Shieh was a violin concertmaster, soloist, and assistant conductor with Stretto. The award recognizes alumni for embodying the organization's mission in their achievements and sharing those values with others in the community.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., associate professor of architecture, was invited to present his paper, “Architecture at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ): Speculative Architectural Methods as Imagining New Cosmopolitan Polities,” at (Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories, and Transformation , the third annual Korean Studies Symposium at the University at Buffalo, on October 18, 2024.