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
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article abstract titled “Use of Microct Scanner to Characterize the Histotechnological Processing of Bone using Different Tissue Fixatives: Relationship to DNA Preservation (Immunohistochemistry)” in The Biophysics Journal on February 7, 2020. The article discusses how different tissue fixatives can be used to preserve different conformations of nucleic acids, such as right-handed double-stranded B-DNA and left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in the peer-reviewed journal, James Joyce Quarterly in an article titled “Clever, Very: Jonathan Goldman,” on February 6, 2020. Goldman was interviewed about his position as vice president and incoming president of the James Joyce Society.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, published her chapter, “Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad,” in A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 5, edited by Joyce Huff and Martha Stoddard Holmes. The book was published on February 6, 2020, by Bloomsbury Press.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, “How Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair,” in The Public Domain Review on February 6, 2020. The piece is a result of research for his site New York 1920: 100 Years Ago Today, a project sponsored by a two-year ISRC grant.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was invited to speak at the Ulrich Museum of Art of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas on emerging technology and art on February 6, 2020. In his talk,“Voices from the Vault,” he spoke about Brooklyn artist Lee Adler's artwork and the anticipated the bonding of humans and machines in the 21st century.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her poem, “Hold Me Like You'll Never Let Me Go,” a part of a theatre event, Let Lightning Set Us on Fire, a work of modern love to celebrate Valentine's Day on February 3, 2020 in New York City.
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, was invited to be the “Narrating Disease” panel commentator at the “Feeling DIS/EASE” conference at the Max Planck Institute for Human Behavior, in Berlin, Germany, on January 30, 2020.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was invited to join the Editorial Board of Bloomsbury Academic's Modernist Archives book series on January 27, 2019.
John Misak
New York Institute of TechnologyJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, “Perchance to Read: Developing an Augmented Reality Game to Increase Student Engagement with Hamlet” in Early Modern Culture Online on January 26, 2020.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was asked to be a referee for the Canadian government's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grants for 2020 on January 16, 2020.
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