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.
Alessandro Melis
School of Architecture and DesignAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation endowed chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, won the Gerd Albers Award 2024 on October 10, 2024, for the best book contribution in the field of urban planning. This award is presented by the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), an NGO founded in 1965 with members across 90 countries, accredited by the United Nations and the Council of Europe, and holding formal consultative status with UNESCO. Melis' book, Architectural Exaptation When Function Follows Form, focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation, specifically, in extending architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.
Alessandro Melis
School of Architecture and DesignAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor in the School of Architecture and Design, was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the Iberoamerican University for the LAB Santo Domingo in November. He was invited as an honored speaker by the Italian Embassy on the occasion of the Dominican Republic Biennal.
Alessandro Melis
School of Architecture and DesignArchitecture firm Heliopolis 21 was named one of the best Italian firms by the international architecture magazine The Plan. The magazine featured the firm's work in a special issue, Panorama Italiano 9, in October 2024. Heliopolis 21 was founded and led by Alessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation endowed chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design.
Alessandro Melis
School of Architecture and DesignThree New York Tech faculty members participated in an event series, We Are Out of Time, promoted by the sustainable architecture program of the Italian Ministry of Culture and held in October 2024 in Cagliari, Italy. School of Architecture and Design Dean Maria Perbellini, Ph.D., served as a member of the steering committee for the event series and as the chair of the competition jury. Alessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation endowed chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, served as co-curator. Trudy Brens, M.Arch., department chair and teaching associate professor, was a keynote speaker at the conference.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published her lead-authored research, entitled "The AI-Authorship Effect: Understanding Authenticity, Moral Disgust, and Consumer Responses to AI-Generated Marketing Communications," in the Journal of Business Research, an ABDC A-level journal in marketing. In this research, coauthored with Julian Givi from West Virginia University, the researchers document across 7 preregistered experiments that consumers respond negatively when they believe communicators used generative AI to write emotional marketing messages.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, presented her lead-authored research, conducted with Julian Givi from West Virginia University, entitled "The AI-Authorship Effect: How Consumers Respond when AIs Write Emotional Marketing Communications," at the Association for Consumer Research conference in Paris, France, from September 25 to 29, 2024. The ACR conference is the preeminent academic conference in consumer behavior.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, presented her lead-authored research, conducted with Constantine Sedikides from the University of Southampton and Julian Givi from West Virginia University, entitled "To Gift or Not to Gift? Narcissism and Gift-Giving Likelihood," at the Association for Consumer Research conference in Paris, France, from September 25 to 29. The ACR conference is the preeminent academic conference in the field of consumer behavior.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, presented her research, conducted with Danielle Hass and Julian Givi from West Virginia University, entitled "AI Ghostwriting Remorse: Guilt in Using AI for Consumer-to Consumer Heartfelt Messages," at the Association for Consumer Research conference in Paris, France, from September 25 to 29, 2024. The ACR conference is the preeminent academic conference in the field of consumer behavior.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a short essay contributing to a print roundtable, "Death from a Thousand Cuts: A Roundtable on the 1937 Gatsby Condensation", in The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 2023, published September 2024. The feature addressed the expurgated, serialized 1937 version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Goldman's section analyzed the novel's chapter 5, the central chapter of the novel.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published an article, "The Monkeypox (Mpox) Dilemmas: What Is the Clinical and Histologic Presentation of the Bullae and Are They Infectious, and Why Is the Infection Dying Out So Quickly?" in SKINmed, a peer-reviewed publication, on September 21, 2024. Gagna examined the pathological consequences of this skin disorder, via histopathological staining methods, to improve clinical diagnosis of the pathology. Mpox is a very infectious disease that can cause painful enlarged lymph nodes, rash, fever, and muscle pain. Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is an enveloped double-stranded DNA virus.