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.
Deborah Cohn
School of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., interim dean and professor of management and marketing studies, published her opinion piece, "What my research reveals about gift giving," in the Baltimore Jewish Times, on December 1, 2021.
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological & Chemical SciencewsClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (2021 December 1; 32(22): ab1.) (P328), entitled "Comparative Morphological and Molecular Biological Characterization of Bone Tissue Using Different Fixatives." The research project involved New York Tech undergraduate students who helped determine which fixatives are best for the simultaneous preservation of overall bone structure, histology, and DNA content.
Niharika Nath
College of Arts & Sciences Biological & Chemical SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published her article, "Macrophage Reprogramming and Cancer Therapeutics: Role of iNOS-Derived Nitric oxide," in Cells, on November 30, 2021. Nath's article discusses macrophage types, evidence of the roles of nitric oxide in immunomodulation, and the therapeutic options using nitric oxide-dependent strategies.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his current and former students from New York Tech, Carlyn Annunziata, and Hamad El Kahza, and his collaborator Professor Daniel Fong, presented four talks at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, on November 21, 2021.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on "Scholarly Editing and the Archive" at the University of Huddersfield, U.K., virtually, on November 17, 2021.
Rakesh Mittal
School of ManagementRakesh Mittal, Ph.D., associate professor of human resource management and law, co-authored the article "Personality meta–traits and time-based work-family conflict: the mediating role of work-home boundaries," alongside Maya Kroumova, Ph.D., professor of human resource management and labor relations, and Joshua Bienstock, Ph.D., associate professor of human resource management, published in the International Journal of Organizational Analysis, on November 10, 2021. The article focuses the importance of studying work-family conflict (WFC) and work/home boundaries, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant disruption in the work-family sphere have further underscored the need to study work-family conflict (WFC) and work/home boundaries. Mittal and others draw upon boundary theory to provide a more fine-grained insight into the personality - WFC interface, demonstrating that Stability and Plasticity, the two meta-traits of personality, influence WFC directly and indirectly, via boundary strength at work (BSW) and boundary strength at home (BSH) domains.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, discussed her monograph, "Annotating Modernism" (2020), as part of “Modernism and Teaching”, an online event with authors Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, and Benjamin D. Hagen. The event was hosted by the Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text and Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham, UK., on November 10, 2021.
\nJason Van Nest
School of architectureJason Van Nest, M.Arch, assistant professor of architecture, presented a two-hour lecture and demonstration entitled "BIM Advancements for Architectural Lighting Design" to the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City on November 10, 2021. The topics of the presentation focused on Virtual Design & Construction (VDC), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows —specifically how these new approaches to design are expanding the legal, financial, and digital aspects design excellence.
Francine Glazer
Academic AffairsFrancine S Glazer, Ph.D., associate provost for educational innovation, and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, gave the opening plenary address at the 2021 conference for the POD Network on November 9, 2021. The address was attended by over 950 people who work in various capacities to support faculty and instructional development. Glazer is the current president of the POD Network, the premier international professional association for educational development.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, and Laura S. Rifkin published "When Physical Closeness Induces Psychological Distance: The Effects of Psychological Ownership and Contagion Threat on Social Connectedness," in the Journal of Consumer Behavior on November 5, 2021.