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.
Kate E. O'Hara
Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, published her chapter “Transcending and Transforming: Teaching and Learning in the Time of Covid 19,” in the edited volume, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises, from Information Age Publishing on December 30, 2021. O’Hara’s chapter is part of a scholarly collection of creative pieces; stories of lived curricula. The chapter is a shared narrative, interspersed with writing and anecdotes from undergraduate students working remotely on a service-learning project. The shared narrative illuminates experiences of overcoming challenges while sheltering in place, contextualized in relation to Friere and van Manen, and identifying and articulating personal transformations.
Deborah Y. Cohn
School of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., interim dean of the School of Management and professor of marketing, had her research featured in the article, "The top 5 'horrible gifts' people actually give their family and friends," on News24.com, South Africa's premier news source, on December 23, 2021.
Felipe Henao
Student Engagement & DevelopmentFelipe Henao, Ed.D., dean of students, was recently accepted as a content expert for Complete College America with a focus on addressing student basic needs, and is now working on a project to address student success primarily for adult learners at historically Black colleges. He was also selected as Long Island's Business News Class of 2021 40 under 40 Recipient, on December 14, 2021.
\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, had her monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, (hardcover, 2020), published in paperback by Routledge on December 13, 2021.
'Paul Ferrante
Student LifePaul Ferrante, was elected to the LICSPA Executive Board as Vice President of Marketing and Communications on December 10, 2021, effective on January 1, 2022. He will be overseeing all communications directed for member institutions while maintaining the LICSPA website and branding. The executive board is made up of staff and faculty members from SUNY Old Westbury, Manhattanville College, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, co-organized a virtual event on Modernist Editing with Byrony Randall, professor of modernist literature and co-director of the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow. Golden and Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English at New York Tech, also gave presentations as part of the event on December 8, 2021.
Batu Chalise
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBatu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was been appointed to serve as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, a major archival journal that advances the theory and applications of wireless communication systems and networks, on December 7, 2021.
\n\n\n\nAnand Santhanakrishnan
College of Engineering & Computing SciencesAnand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with faculty members from Stevens Institutes of Technology, were part of a team that was awarded first prize in the Hyperspace Challenge, a business accelerator run by the Air Research Laboratory and CNM Ingenuity as part of the U.S. Space Force’s new SpaceWERX program, on December 2, 2021. The team, using algorithms that are sixty percent more efficient than state-of-the-art methods, is working to develop an artificial intelligence-based system to continuously optimize how earth-based sensors track space objects and anticipate collisions to reduce “space jam” (satellite collisions and traffic).
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his former NYU students Zeshun Zong and Xinyu Li, had their article, "Effects of nutrient depletion on tissue growth in a tissue engineering scaffold pore," published in Physics of Fluids on December 2, 2021.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had his paper "Tissue model shows cells grown at the top of biodegradable scaffold consume nutrients first," featured in AIP Scilight on December 2, 2021.