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.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation to New York City's Village Preservation Society on June 25, 2026. Goldman focused on historical material about 1920s Greenwich Village and NYC generally drawn from his new book Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation to New York City's Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group on June 23, 2026. Goldman focused on material about the West Side of Manhattan, drawn from his new book Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented a paper titled “A Black Coney Island, Erased” at the third annual New York History Conference in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on June 12, 2026.
Peter Goldsmith
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBabak Dastgheib-Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, and Peter Goldsmith, M.B.A., adjunct assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, were named to the 2026 Long Island Press Power List on June 11, 2026. The list recognizes the business leaders, civic champions, and elected officials who move the region forward. Goldsmith is also the director of Startup Tech Central and the director of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences Co-op Program.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
College of Arts and SciencesChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, published a paper, "Gravitomagnetic plasma battery II: Impact of vertical disk structure on seed magnetic field generation," in Elsevier’s Fundamental Plasma Physics journal, on June 9, 2026. The article explores how magnetic fields are born around rotating black holes.
Maryam Ravam
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences / Electrical & Computer EngineeringMaryam Ravan, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Region 1 Award for Technological Innovation (Academic), approved on June 7, 2026. She was recognized "for pioneering contributions to advanced signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms, with impactful applications in biomedical engineering, microwave imaging and sensing, non-destructive testing, and radar systems."
Michael Schiavi
School of Arts and SciencesMichael Schiavi, Ph.D., professor of humanities, appears as a film historian in the new documentary, MINESHAFT: THE CRUISING MURDERS, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 and has since played the Frameline50 Festival in San Francisco and the Provincetown Film Festival. The film is a study of homophobic murders that took place in New York City.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was elected as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors on June 3, 2026, in recognition of innovative research, patented technologies, and contributions to the advancement of invention, education, and societal impact.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented "Autofiction in Children’s and YA Literature: Does It Exist?" at the Children's Literature Association Conference, in Pittsburgh, on May 29, 2026. The paper and presentation explored memoirs and fictional autobiographies in children's and young-adult fiction that complicate the conventions of storytelling.
Abhishek Singh
Institutional ResearchAbhishek Singh, M.S., research associate, presented at the 2026 AIR (Association for Institutional Research) Forum on May 27, 2026, in Washington D.C. His session, "Student Intelligence Ecosystem," introduced a practical framework for transforming institutional research data into actionable student success strategies. By integrating student satisfaction inventory results with academic data, the framework produces aggregate insights delivered through an interactive Student Success Hub dashboard.