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.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has published an academic article, “Abnormal Fixational Eye Movements in Ophthalmic Disease,” in the Journal of Eye Movement Research on September 9, 2026.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, was interviewed with her co-author by Greg Barnhisel for "Fifteen years, 944 pages: Editing the Definitive Sylvia Plath" in the Pittsburgh Review of Books. The interview was published on September 9, 2026. Golden's work has also been reviewed in a number of literary publications.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "A Black Coney Island, Cancelled" in Callalloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. The September 8, 2026, article addresses Solomon Riley, a Black businessman who planned an amusement park for Black customers on Hart Island in the East River in 1925—when New York City operated under Jim Crow practices—only to see the city government shut it down.
Jessica Hautsch
College of Arts and SciencesJessica Hautsch, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor of humanities, co-authored a book, Info/comm/tech in popular culture. Subtitled, "an encyclopedic time capsule," the book provides a history of rapidly evolving technological advancements in a popular culture context. It was published by Peter Lang, Inc. on September 4, 2026.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, coauthored and published a research paper, "A Phenomenological Investigation of the Nexus between New York State Education Department’s School Counseling Policy and Practice in New York State" on September 3, 2026, in Journal of School-Based Counseling, Policy and Evaluation. The article examined school counselors' experiences in implementing the updated New York State School Counseling Regulations in schools.
John Zweck
College of Arts and SciencesJohn Zweck, Ph.D., professor of math, in the College of Arts and Sciences, appeared on the Sit Down with Sid Podcast to discuss the mathematical modeling he did in 2014 to search for the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The August 29, 2026, podcast explains how data collected by an Inmarsat satellite was used in conjunction with mathematical modeling to predict the flight path of the aircraft after radar contact was lost.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, curated an exhibition titled "From Mono- to Multi-: Adaptive Post-Industrial Futures for Mono-functional Infrastructures," at FXC Gallery in Brooklyn with a team of New York Tech B.Arch student design and research assistants. The exhibition launched on July 30, 2026, with an opening reception and lecture and closed on August 27.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, was featured in Money magazine's August 24, 2026, article on AI shopping assistants and grocery spending, where she explained how conversational AI builds consumer trust through a sense of social presence and offered practical advice for using these tools to shop within a budget. The article was syndicated and also appeared in numerous regional media outlets across the country.
John Zweck
College of Arts and SciencesJohn Zweck, Ph.D., professor of math, in the College of Arts and Sciences, has co-authored an academic article, "Numerical Fredholm determinants for matrix-valued kernels on the real line," on August 23, 2026, in the journal Integral Equations and Operator Theory. This new take on an old field is being employed by the authors to develop numerical methods to determine the stability of lasers that produce ultra-short pulses of light for the high accurate measurement of time, distance, and frequency.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has published an academic article "Missed pulmonary nodules on CT: determinants and implications for radiologic practice,” published in American Journal of Roentgenology on August 12, 2026.