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.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, published a book chapter entitled "The Reputation Economy: A Tale as Old as Time or a New Paradigm?" with co-authors Laura S. Rifkin and Canan Corus, in The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Marketing, edited by Annmarie Hanlon and Tracy Tuten, on June 28, 2022.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, lead-authored an article entitled "Just My Luck: Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Differentially Predict Word of Mouth About Promotional Games" in the Journal of Business Research on June 27, 2022. Her co-authors were Joann Peck, Claire M. Hart, and Constantine Sedikides. With an impact factor of 7.55, Journal of Business Research is an A-level journal in marketing and one of the leading journals in business.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, presented his research paper in the "Imaged and Imagined North Korean Materialities: Future Borders, Architectures, Cartographies, Landscapes" session at the 7th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN), "Borderland Futures: Technologies, Zones, Co-existences," on June 24, 2022.
Larry Jaffee
Arts & Sciences/Communication ArtsLarry Jaffee, M.A., adjunct professor of communication arts, hosted the Making Vinyl conference in Nashville, TN on June 23-24, 2022, where he was privileged to introduce music legend T Bone Burnett as closing keynote speaker. Jaffee co-founded Making Vinyl, the only B2B platform dedicated to the global rebirth of the vinyl record manufacturing industry. He also produced a Making Vinyl Europe conference in Frankfurt, Germany on September 1-2, 2022. Since 2017, Jaffee has worked with such music industry luminaries as Jack White, Darryl McDaniels, and Little Steven Van Zandt at Making Vinyl events in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was quoted extensively in a column for the Irish Independent by Colum Murphy titled "100 years after publishing Ulysses, how come James Joyce has never been canceled?", on June 12, 2022. Goldman says: “Yes, Joyce is difficult to read. Yes, not everybody is going to read the book cover to cover. But any kind of engagement with Ulysses is a form of leadership.”
Bisrat Kinfemichael
School of ManagementBisrat Kinfemichael, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics, shared his insight on managing daily expenses and long-term debt in an article titled “Survey: 27% of Americans Have No Emergency Fund,” published on Debthammer.org on June 12, 2022.
Becky Frieden
ITSBecky Frieden, senior director of enterprise applications and decision support systems, moderated an interactive roundtable and panel, "Diving Into Talent Acquisition, Diversity, And Retention," at the SINC Northeast IT & Security Leaders 2022 Conference on June 6, 2022, in Boston, MA.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, spoke at the Consulate General of Ireland, New York, for their event devoted to James Joyce's Ulysses, on the subject of "U for You" (Ulysses for all readers), on June 3, 2022.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, co-edited the book "The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath" with Anita Helle and Maeve O'Brien, published by Bloomsbury Academic, on May 25, 2022. The volume contains chapters by 27 scholars, including Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement, and Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English and director of interdisciplinary studies. A launch event took place on May 25, hosted by Melissa Parrish of Smith College, featuring a panel of speakers from the collection.
John Handrakis
School of Health ProfessionsJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, was awarded $229,800 in funding over two years by the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Small Projects in Rehabilitation Research (SPiRE) Program, for his research project, "Development of a Novel Cooling Vest to Prevent Heat-Induced Thermoregulatory Dysfunction in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury,” on May 23, 2022. The study, which focuses on veterans with spinal cord injuries (SCI), aims to determine the safety and efficacy of a feedback-regulated novel cooling vest to maintain core body temperature (within 0.4°C) in participants with higher levels of SCI during two hours of controlled warm ambient temperature (35°C) exposure. Efficacy will be determined by: (1) change in core temperature; and (2) perception of heat and thermal comfort.