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.
Lynn Rogoff
Arts & SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, appeared on an episode of the Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast titled "The Untold Perspective: Writer Lynn Rogoff Discusses Bird Woman, Her Audio Drama Creation On Sacajawea," on November 6, 2022. Rogoff recently produced a shape-shifting Bird Woman, audio drama multi-episode series based on the Lewis and Clark Native American guide, Sacajawea. Bird Woman, a magical realism drama, discovers her supernatural shape-shifting powers as a part woman, part eagle, fighting alongside the expedition members.
A Gerdes
NYITCOM/Biomedical SciencesA. Martin Gerdes, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, was recently honored by Schneps Media at its "A LIST Honoring Extraordinary Men" event, held at The Heritage in Farmingdale, N.Y., on November 3, 2022. Schneps Media’s A LIST recognizes the achievements and contributions of extraordinary men at the pinnacle of their careers from Manhattan to Montauk.
Batu Chalise
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBatu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, with his former graduate student, Daniel Wong, now with Northrup Grumman, published their paper entitled "Detection, Mode Selection, and Parameter Estimation in Distributed Radar Networks: Algorithms and Implementation Challenges" in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine on November 1, 2022.
Jon Michael Schwarting
ArchitectureJon Michael Schwarting, M.Arch., professor of architecture, and Frances Campani, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, of Campani and Schwarting Architects, has been awarded a contract with the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson to execute a New York State grant for developing a climate resilience plan for the village watershed. The team also includes alumna Heather Korb. The contract, awarded November 1, 2022, includes the study and design of migration solutions for increased storm surges and stormwater runoff, as well as rising tide issues in this Long Island Sound harbor village.
\nSloane Kelley
NYITCOM at A-StateLillian Niwagaba, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of global health, and Sloane Kelley, director of the library and NYITCOM-Jonesboro, were honored with the DEI Unification Award from the American Osteopathic Association for their work on behalf of the NYITCOM DEI Committee. The award was presented at OMED on October 29, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
casJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented his digital humanities project, "NY1920s: When We Became Modern," at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference on October 29, 2022, in Portland, OR.
Shinu Kuriakose
School of Health ProfessionsShinu Kuriakose, DHSc, PA-C, associate professor of physician assistant studies, presented at the 2022 New York State Society of Physician Assistants conference, held in Saratoga Springs, NY, on October 28 – 30, 2022. Kuriakose spoke on "Pandemics and Mood Disorders," "Research Curriculum: Literature Review, IRB, to Submission," "Paradigm," and "Mental Health First Aid: CPR for the Soul." He also had five posters presented at NYSSPA in collaboration with the New York Tech PA students, including: "Do Clinical Providers’ Accents Influence Patients’ Perceptions of Competency?," "Social Stigma and STD Testing in Young Adults," "Adaptive and Maladaptive Perfectionism in PA Students' \nAttitudes Toward Psychiatry: A Cross-sectional Study of PA Students," and "PA Virtual Interviews: Faculty and Applicant Perspectives."
\nJonathan Goldman
casJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, delivered his paper, "Cutesy Modernism: Rose O'Neill's Nonbinary Empire," at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference on October 28, 2022 in Portland, OR.
\nSophia Domokos
College of Arts and SciencesSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, was an invited speaker at a recent workshop, From holography to machine learning: novel takes on dense matter, hosted by the University of Helsinki on October 24-26, 2022, in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop brought together experts in string theory's holographic duality, like Domokos, with experts in nuclear physics and neutron stars. Holographic duality is one of the most promising tools we have to understand the behavior of dense matter inside neutron stars.
Anya Martin
School of Architecture & Design / ArchitectureAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, curated an installation displaying microalgae in the big spheres of Genoma, in the arid greenhouse of the Biodiversity Garden, at the University of Padua, from September 27 - October 23, 2022. Melis curated the exhibit originally for Pnat, Arte Sella e Liam Donovan-Stumbles for the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2021).\n