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.
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological & Chemical SciencewsClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (2021 December 1; 32(22): ab1.) (P328), entitled "Comparative Morphological and Molecular Biological Characterization of Bone Tissue Using Different Fixatives." The research project involved New York Tech undergraduate students who helped determine which fixatives are best for the simultaneous preservation of overall bone structure, histology, and DNA content.
Niharika Nath
College of Arts and SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published her article, "Macrophage Reprogramming and Cancer Therapeutics: Role of iNOS-Derived Nitric oxide," in Cells, on November 30, 2021. Nath's article discusses macrophage types, evidence of the roles of nitric oxide in immunomodulation, and the therapeutic options using nitric oxide-dependent strategies.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his current and former students from New York Tech, Carlyn Annunziata, and Hamad El Kahza, and his collaborator Professor Daniel Fong, presented four talks at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, on November 21, 2021.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on "Scholarly Editing and the Archive" at the University of Huddersfield, U.K., virtually, on November 17, 2021.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, discussed her monograph, "Annotating Modernism" (2020), as part of “Modernism and Teaching”, an online event with authors Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, and Benjamin D. Hagen. The event was hosted by the Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text and Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham, UK., on November 10, 2021.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at the College of Liberal Arts, Wenzhou Kean University, Wenzhou, China, via Zoom, on November 1, 2021.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Many Giants of Black Baseball," an article about the numerous NYC Black baseball teams and the ballparks they were playing in as the first-ever all-NYC World Series went on one hundred years ago, in the Village Voice on October 28, 2021.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a review of Heather Clark's biography, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf, 2020), to Modernism/modernity's Print Plus on October 21, 2021.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English, published his essay, “Celebrating Through the Looking-Glass 150, or ‘It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards…’,” about the experience of re-reading Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass on the eve of the sesquicentennial of its publication, in DSA: Essays on Victorian Fiction, vol 52 no. 2, on October 18, 2021.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was named President of the James Joyce Society, on October 7, 2021.