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.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was interviewed for a podcast hosted by Posthumans.org on August 31, 2020. He spoke about his most recent book, Surviving the Machine Age.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, Summer 2020, on August 20, 2020, for Dead Shark on the N Train, published by Broadstone Books.
Jamel Vanderburg
College of Arts and SciencesJamel Vanderburg, adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, was mentioned in the 2020 Young People For Alumni Report, published on August 12, 2020, for his civic engagement work with students at New York Tech.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Biological & Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was elected as a Fellow into The Royal Society of Chemistry on August 5, 2020.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, discussed her book, Annotating Modernism, with the New York City Irish Studies Symposium as part of an event called "Sylvia Plath and Irish Modernism," on July 27, 2020.
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had a research paper, “Effects of Particles Diffusion on Membrane Filters Performance,” published in MDPI on July 24, 2020. He worked on this paper along with his former students Shi Yue Liu and Zhengyi Chen at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was appointed to the advisory board of The Lifeboat Foundation, a technology-oriented think tank, on July 22, 2020. "The Lifeboat Foundation is developing a world-class think tank with a rich cognitive diversity of... top thinkers to encourage scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies."
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was appointed to the editorial board of the new refereed journal The Journal of Posthumanism on July 20, 2020. "The Journal of Posthumanism is an international multilingual peer-reviewed scholarly journal promoting innovative work to transverse the fields ranging from social sciences, humanities, and arts to medicine and STEM. In line with the efforts of creating a broad network beyond disciplinary boundaries, the journal seeks to explore what it means to be human in this technologically-saturated, ecologically damaged world."
Jamel Vanderburg
College of Arts and SciencesJamel Vanderburg, M.P.A., adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, served as a co-moderator on a panel entitled "Breaking Barriers: A Virtual Roundtable Discussing Racial Disparities in America," on July 12, 2020. The roundtable came out a discussion between Vanderburg and his co-moderators Andrew Oliver, senior project manager for Empire State Development and Kanell Harvard, an event planner with Dhat’s a Trip, about how to navigate racial issues in the current climate.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, had his article, "Here's how we can make AI for tracking Covid safer," published on the website for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, a think tank where he is a Fellow, on July 9, 2020.