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.
Matthias Altwicker
Architecture and DesignMatthias Altwicker, M.U.P., B.Arch., associate professor of architecture, curated an exhibit, Living in the Shade: Open Space and Public Housing, which opened July 23, 2025, at the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. The exhibit highlights the significant role of open space in the daily lives of millions of public housing residents who have called New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments home.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture & DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, gave a public book talk lecture at Lectures on Tap, an organization hosting professors and experts giving thought-provoking weekly lectures inside of bars all over New York City. The lecture was held at NeueHouse NYC, on July 21, 2025.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture & DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to serve on the distinguished jury panel of the 2025 "Urban Design Lab Competition Publication," alongside seven other panel members with urban expertise from universities around the world. Registration for the publication began on April 19, 2025, and the date set for jury consideration of submissions was July 20, 2025.
Lynn Rogoff
Arts & SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was interviewed in the Financial Times on the subject of her research on using AI with students. In the July 18, 2025, article, "Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education," she said that "the more novel and unique the proposition is, the harder it is for them to use AI."
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture & DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, co-organized, co-lead, and co-piloted the international "Urban Intelligence Workshop," a multi-institutional collaboration with Korea University and Parsons School of Design, which was held at Korea University's Division of Smart Cities campus in Sejong City, South Korea, from July 7–14, 2025. This one-week intensive summer workshop, conducted with the participation of 14 Korea University students, explored the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in urban design processes and the contemporary smart city development paradigm.
Colleen Kirk
School of Management, Department of Management and MarketingColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, has published an article, entitled "Bewitched and bewildered: adoption of sharing economy reputation systems in the age of data portability," on July 10, 2025, in the Journal of Marketing Management, a top-quality, peer-reviewed academic journal. This study examines how consumer reputation systems in the sharing economy are adopted, emphasizing the influence of collective input, the paradoxical effects of reputation mechanisms, and the role of enabling technologies like data portability in shaping digital reputations and marketplace dynamics.
Deborah Y. Cohn
Scoool of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., professor of marketing, was quoted in a July 1, 2025, Newsday story about grocery shopping. Her contributions to the article included a list of key tips for making sensible food choices.
Eduardo Rivera
LibraryEduardo Rivera, M.L.I.S., M.S.Ed., librarian III, presented a poster, "Flip the Covid Script: Leveraging the Flipped Classroom in the Wake of the Pandemic," at the American Library Association's annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during The Educators Poster Session on June 29, 2025. The poster presentation explores benefits of the flipped classroom model in academic library information literacy programs, with a particular focus on its relevance and necessity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amanda Golden
New York Institute of TechnologyAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture and workshop for secondary English teachers on "Mid-Twentieth Century Confessional Poetry" as part of Humanities Texas's "Teaching Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature" Teacher Institute held at the University of Houston on June 26, 2025.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/ HUMJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented a paper titled "Gatsby’s Other New York Islands: Segregation, Incarceration, Abjection" at the 17th International Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York City on June 26, 2025. The presentation situated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in the context of New York's carceral populations at the time of the novel's setting and composition.