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.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture and Design, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his book, Drawing Hwa-Chaeng: Mapping Contested Territories for Imagination, published by jeongye-c-publishers, a recognized architecture and design publisher based in Seoul, Korea. The book explores how mapping can produce knowledge that reframes contested territories into productive spaces. Its research engages the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to illustrate how “Hwa-Chaeng”-informed mapping can produce knowledge that can reframe contentious territories as synergistic productive spaces. The book was developed based on one of Kim’s New York Tech's ISRC Grants and was published as a bilingual (English and Korean) book in December 2022.
Jennifer Griffiths
CAS/HumanitiesJennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a new monograph, At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era, with the University Press of Mississippi's Cultures of Childhood series, on December 16, 2022. The book focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed within the scope of a sociological “problem,” all while trying to expand.
Sophia Domokos
CASSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published a paper, "Supersymmetry of the D3/D5 defect field theory," in the Journal of High Energy Physics, the highest-ranked journal in this field of study, on December 9, 2022. The paper, co-authored with Andrew B. Royston of Penn State - Fayette, closes a 20-year gap in the literature surrounding a very commonly used and well-studied system in string theory and paves the way for the study of special mathematical objects called "solitons" in this system.
Maryam Ravan
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences, NYITMaryam Ravan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, in collaboration with colleagues from Stanford University and McMaster University, has published an article, "Discriminating between bipolar and major depressive disorder using a machine learning approach and resting-state EEG data,” in Clinical Neurophysiology, a peer-reviewed publication, on December 7, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/ HUMJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation on December 6, 2022.
Melda Yildiz
CAS/ EducationMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, received a Fulbright Specialist Grant to serve as the Fulbright Specialist for “Competency Based Curriculum on Blue Economy”’ at the Tom Mboya University College on May 2022, through the U.S. Embassy Kenya, Fulbright Specialist Program. The project commenced on the October 18 and was completed on November 28, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/ HumJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation titled "Three Short Talks About Ulysses: Publication, Culture, Legacy" at IES en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15, 2022. The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Shaya Sheikh
School of ManagementShaya Sheikh, Ph.D., associate professor of quantitative and analytics, co-authored a paper, "Social Media’s Role in Achieving Marketing Goals in Iran during the COVID-19 Pandemic," which was published in Social Sciences on November 11, 2022. The paper, which explores the impact of social media (SM) on the marketing goals of organizations in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic, examines the extent to which firms utilize social media marketing to promote their products in Iran compared to the pre-COVID-19 era. The validity and reliability of the 279 survey results are confirmed using internal and external validity and Cronbach’s alpha. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between the use of SM and the distraction level. Moreover, the gender of the marketer has an impact on the perceived usefulness and application of SM. Finally, a positive effect of working hours per day on SM usage and marketing performance is observed.
Rocio Morello
Undergraduate Student Success & AdvisingRocio Morello, associate director, Office of Undergraduate Student Success and Advising, along with Monika Rohde, Erikka Vaughan, Mohammed Moizuddin, presented a workshop on Achieving Collegiate Excellence (ACE): "A Collaborative and Holistic Approach to Student Success” at the 2022 LICSPA Conference on November 11, 2022, at Stony Brook University. The workshop examined the development, outcomes, and continuous improvement of a student success program that mobilizes university faculty and staff to serve as academic coaches for students who would otherwise lose their institutional scholarships. Implemented in Fall 2019, students who completed the ACE program showed higher retention rates than the overall undergraduate population. The achievements of the ACE program started with a commitment to data-informed decision making and the ongoing success of the program is guided by college-wide support in putting students first.
Becky Frieden
ITSBecky Frieden, senior director of enterprise applications and decision support systems, participated in a fireside panel with Catherine Lloyd, former CDO of University of Wisconsin Madison, Janice Maxwell, director of IT operations at Georgia State University, and Vanessa Hammler Kenon, associate VP at University of Texas Austin, at the RTM Higher Education CIO Congress in Austin, Texas on November 8, 2022. The topic of the panel was "Strategies to Measure and Increase the Quality of Employee Well-being."