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.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, co-authored the book, Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy, published November 2017. It is an advanced reference publication featuring the latest scholarly research on transdisciplinary and transformative assessment practices from primary-level to university-level educational settings.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, had his work cited in "Thinking Small," an article about the future of so-called micro-units published in the political journal Jacobin in November 2017. In that same month, Bloom was quoted in an article in the Gotham Gazette entitled, "De Blasio's Record on NYCHA."
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his new book, Joyce and the Law, published by the University Press of Florida in November 2017. The book is a collection of insights by "a tremendous group of scholars, critics, and legal practitioners" who are "[m]aking the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, [offering] new insights into Joyce's most important texts. They analyze Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in light of the legal contexts of Joyce's day."
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, gave a presentation on the use of gaming technology in contemporary art entitled, "Game-ification of Art and the Posthuman," at the annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, held in Phoenix, AZ, November 9–12.
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, delivered a presentation, "Using Virtual Reality to Illustrate Sense of Place for Student Personal Narratives," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 115th Annual Conference, November 10-12, 2017, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was recently awarded an NEH grant to participate in an Object Lessons writer's workshop to teach academics—particularly those whose subject is technology—how to write for the popular press. The workshop was held November 7–8, 2017, in Phoenix, AZ.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, participated in an invited panel, "Transforming Higher Education through Transdisciplinary Action Research and Advocacy," at the 40th Annual Fulbright Conference held on November 5, 2017, in Washington, DC.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, moderated the panel, "MIL Revolutionizing the Learning Process" at UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica on October 26, 2017. The theme of the conference was "Media and Information Literacy in Critical Times: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Information Environments." The session explored the potential and capacity of MIL to create new ways of learning in various learning environments, online and offline, as well as the challenges faced.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented "Unprinted Pages: Recovering Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Play" with her New York Tech students, Rebekah Geevarghese and Uzma Patel, at Fordham University's Transnational Print Culture Conference in October 2017. The presentation addressed the Irish writer Edna O'Brien's unpublished drafts of what was probably a screenplay about the American poet Sylvia Plath. Thanks to a Student-Faculty Collaboration Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, the students spent the summer creating a digital project interpreting these materials, working from scans of O'Brien's manuscripts and typescripts housed in Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Richard Pizer
College of Arts and Sciences, Life SciencesRichard Pizer, Ph.D., professor of life sciences, had a peer-reviewed research paper, "Boron Acid Complexation Reactions with Polyols and A-Hydroxy Carboxylic Acids: Equilibria, Reaction Mechanisms, Saccharide Recognition" published by Elsevier's ScienceDirect in October 2017.