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.
Abhishek Singh
Institutional ResearchAbhishek Singh, M.S., research associate, was interviewed for a "Get to Know Our Community" feature on the web site of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) on September 25, 2025.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed article, entitled "Carcinogenesis: An Alternative Hypothesis Comparing Mutagenic Versus Metabolic Models" in the journal Biology, on September 23, 2025. The paper contrasts the classic “mutagenic” model of cancer with a “metabolic-first” model. It argues many cancers may arise via either route that feedback on each other, with therapeutic implications that extend beyond DNA repair and oncogenes.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article, "From Pilots to Production: Bird Woman, Sacajawea Scaling AI Responsibly in Creative Industries," in AI Journal, on September 18, 2025. The research demonstrated how AI video can expand creative possibilities without replacing the human creative team’s insights that drive truly resonant work.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article, "Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City," in an online magazine, Mondoweiss: News and Opinion about Palestine, Israel, and the United States, on September 13, 2025. Though classified as an opinion piece, the article uses Goldman's archival work to offer an historical account of anti-Zionism in 1920s NYC, situating Zohran Mamdani within this intersectional tradition.
Randy Stout
College of Osteopathic MedicineRandy Stout, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences and director of the New York Tech Imaging Center, together with Amanda Charest, imaging specialist in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, authored a paper, "Thyroid hormone promotes fetal neurogenesis," which was published on September 4, 2025, in the academic journal, JCI Insight. The researchers studied how brain development is modified and impaired by lack of thyroid hormone.
Sebastien Marion
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, and Sebastien Marion, M.L.I.S., M.B.A., librarian III, virtual services, have published a scholarly article in Dickens Studies Annual, titled, "Dickens on Broadway: An Annotated Bibliography of Theatrical Adaptations of Dickens's Works." The article was published on September 1, 2025.
\nNiharika Nath
CASNiharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, co-authored an academic article, "A Comprehensive Survey on Diagnostic Microscopic Imaging Modalities, Challenges, Taxonomy, and Future Directions for Cervical Abnormality Detection and Grading," in the September 2025 issue of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. This review surveys automatic computerized methods for diagnosing pre-cancerous cervical cell abnormalities based on microscopic imaging modalities and provides a novel taxonomy of the surveyed techniques and approaches used.
Randy Stout
College of Osteopathic MedicineRandy Stout, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences and director of the New York Tech Imaging Center, presented "Illuminating the Dark Forest in Our Head: Neuroscience and AI " to a group of 70 high school students from New York and New Jersey along with an audience of researchers from around the world as part of the annual "ASN High School Day" event at the ISN-ASN International Meeting on Neurochemistry held August 19–22, 2025, at the Javits Center in Manhattan. At the same event, Stout presented a research poster on gap junctions intercellular endocytosis as a source of extracellular vesicles in the brain; Amanda Charest, imaging specialist in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, presented a poster on new methods of analyzing highly multiplexed spatial multiomics and super-resolution STED data from brain tissue.
Vladimir Grubisic
College of Osteopathic MedicineVladimir Grubisic, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, participated in the Emerging Group Leaders Symposia panel at the ISN-ASN 2025 Meeting on August 19, 2025. He spoke on "Enteric glia as friends and foes of the intestinal epithelial functions," pointing out some of the complex roles of enteric glia in the intestinal epithelial barrier function following acute inflammation.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an essay in "Centripetal Joyce / Joyce Centrifugal," a collection of selected papers presented at the 2022 International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. The collection was published online on August 18, 2025, and in paperback by Brill on September 4, 2025. Goldman's contribution, "Including Frances Steloff," analyses Steloff’s influence on Joyce’s reception in the United States and internationally, and argues that her work emphasized the collective, and often gendered, enterprise of creating a literary legacy.