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.
Randy Stout
BRIICRandy Stout, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences and director of the New York Tech Imaging Center, together with Amanda Charest, imaging specialist in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, authored a paper, "Thyroid hormone promotes fetal neurogenesis," which was published on September 4, 2025, in the academic journal, JCI Insight. The researchers studied how brain development is modified and impaired by lack of thyroid hormone.
Niharika Nath
CASNiharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, co-authored an academic article, "A Comprehensive Survey on Diagnostic Microscopic Imaging Modalities, Challenges, Taxonomy, and Future Directions for Cervical Abnormality Detection and Grading," in the September 2025 issue of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. This review surveys automatic computerized methods for diagnosing pre-cancerous cervical cell abnormalities based on microscopic imaging modalities and provides a novel taxonomy of the surveyed techniques and approaches used.
Sebastien Marion
LibraryEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, and Sebastien Marion, M.L.I.S., M.B.A., librarian III, virtual services, have published a scholarly article in Dickens Studies Annual, titled, "Dickens on Broadway: An Annotated Bibliography of Theatrical Adaptations of Dickens's Works." The article was published on September 1, 2025.
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BRIICRandy Stout, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences and director of the New York Tech Imaging Center, presented "Illuminating the Dark Forest in Our Head: Neuroscience and AI " to a group of 70 high school students from New York and New Jersey along with an audience of researchers from around the world as part of the annual "ASN High School Day" event at the ISN-ASN International Meeting on Neurochemistry held August 19–22, 2025, at the Javits Center in Manhattan. At the same event, Stout presented a research poster on gap junctions intercellular endocytosis as a source of extracellular vesicles in the brain; Amanda Charest, imaging specialist in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, presented a poster on new methods of analyzing highly multiplexed spatial multiomics and super-resolution STED data from brain tissue.
Vladimir Grubisic
College of Osteopathic Medicine / Department of Biomedical SciencesVladimir Grubisic, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, participated in the Emerging Group Leaders Symposia panel at the ISN-ASN 2025 Meeting on August 19, 2025. He spoke on "Enteric glia as friends and foes of the intestinal epithelial functions," pointing out some of the complex roles of enteric glia in the intestinal epithelial barrier function following acute inflammation.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
CAS/HumJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an essay in "Centripetal Joyce / Joyce Centrifugal," a collection of selected papers presented at the 2022 International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. The collection was published online on August 18, 2025, and in paperback by Brill on September 4, 2025. Goldman's contribution, "Including Frances Steloff," analyses Steloff’s influence on Joyce’s reception in the United States and internationally, and argues that her work emphasized the collective, and often gendered, enterprise of creating a literary legacy.
Robert Alexander
Psychology & CounselingRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has been awarded an NIH Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant as principal investigator. The project, The Effects of Cue Precision on Medical Imaging Interpretation, was awarded on August 12, 2025, and it will investigate how radiologists interpret complex medical images when aided by artificial intelligence, using eye-tracking data to optimize how visual cues are delivered. In parallel, the grant supports the Human Factors And Neuroscience Lab’s student-centered training model as a pipeline for student success.
Colleen Kirk
SOM/Management and MarketingColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article entitled "Maybe don't say 'maybe': How and why invitees fail to realize that they should not respond to invitations with a 'maybe'," in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology on August 7, 2025. This journal is a top-quality journal in business and one of the top journals in social psychology. In this research, Kirk and her coauthors show that invitees often choose to say “maybe” instead of “no” to social invitations because they mistakenly believe it’s what inviters prefer, when in fact, inviters feel more disrespected by indecision than by direct rejection.
Victoria Cuomo
SOHP NursingVictoria Cuomo, M.S.N., a nursing instructor in the School of Health Professions, was named "Nurse of the Week" by The Daily Nurse, an online news, career, and opinion magazine for nurses in the United States. Cuomo was featured in an article published August 6, 2025, "From Bedside to Blackboard: Victoria Cuomo’s Mission to Mentor the Next Generation."
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological & Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was named one of Long Island's top influencers in healthcare for 2025 by the Long Island Business News, on July 25, 2025. He was honored for his research in developing novel AI clinical pathology diagnostic tools and molecular biological-based research methods in genomics for cancer research.