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.
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.
Karrer Alghazali
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences-Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringKarrer Alghazali, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, and Rabab Hamzah, Ph.D., adjunct assistant professor of biological and chemical sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, have coauthored a new comprehensive review advancing strategies for volumetric muscle loss (VML) regeneration, highlighting emerging approaches that combine biomaterials, 3D scaffolds, biofabrication, and therapeutic stimulation to address severe muscle injuries that cannot naturally regenerate. Their paper, "Toward an Integrated Strategy for Volumetric Muscle Loss Regeneration," was published on July 28, 2026, in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Michael Izady
College of Arts and SciencesMichael Izady, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor, Department of Humanities, has written an updated and expanded fourth edition of his book, The Kurds: A Concise Handbook. It was published in July 2026 in Turkish by publisher Nûbihar. English and German publication is forthcoming. The book includes over 500 pages with 75 graphics and tables.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented on the roundtable "Editorial Oddities" and chaired the panel "Weird Personae & Weird Visions" at the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) / British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) Conference in Loughborough, England, on July 2, 2026. As vice president of the MSA, Golden also served on the conference organizing committee. New York Tech architecture major Maggie Viti designed the conference program, with support from a Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave two talks about The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a new edition that she co-edited with Karen V. Kukil. These events were held at the Exeter Library and Ledbury Poetry Festival, in England, on June 25, 2026. She also gave a lecture on Sylvia Plath and the poet Dylan Thomas at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales, on June 27, 2026.
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.
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.