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.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic Medicine / Department of Osteopathic Manipulative MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper in the journal Materials entitled "Assessment of Abdominal Constrictor’s Forces for Informing Computational Models of Orthostatic Hypotension," coauthored by two medical students, Faiz Syed and Rejath Jose, in collaboration with Timothy Devine and Chris Coletti from the Institute for Clinical Competence, on April 26, 2022.
Michael Tautonico
School of Health Professions, Department of Physical TherapyMichael Tautonico, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, was awarded a $3,000 grant for safe patient handling and mobility training, on April 18, 2022.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, received a 2022 NEH Summer Stipend for her project, "Editing the Poems of Sylvia Plath," on April 13, 2022.
Larry Jaffee
College of Arts & Sciences Communication ArtsLarry Jaffee, M.A., adjunct professor of communication arts, published his book, Record Store Day: The Most Probable Comeback of the 21st Century, on April 12, 2022, by Rare Bird Books, of Los Angeles. The book provides the official inside story on how Record Store Day managed to revive the vinyl format from oblivion over the past fifteen years with some of the biggest artists jumping at the chance to support independent record stores. This alliance and renewed camaraderie between artists and record stores set in motion the world's largest annual music event: Record Store Day.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., presented her work with Dr. Andy Royston of Penn State — Fayette at the American Physical Society's annual meeting on April 10, 2022. The work concerns using string theory's holographic duality to better understand certain types of quantum field theories termed "defect field theories". Domokos's work with Dr. Nelia Mann, which describes how holographic duality naturally incorporates the phenomenon of particles called "glueballs" mixing with other particles called "mesons", so that the objects seen in experiments are a superposition of the two different types of states, was also featured at the conference.
Matias del Campo
ArchitectureMatias del Campo, Ph.D., associate professor of architecture, was the guest editor of a special issue of Architectural Design, titled "Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence." Del Campo also contributed four articles to the issue, which was published on April 7, 2022.
John Handrakis
School of Health ProfessionsJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, presented his team's research on thermoregulatory dysfunction in persons with spinal cord injury at the 2022 Biotechnology Conference: Transforming and Improving the Human Condition, on April 7, 2022. Handrakis provided evidence on the efficacy of his team's feedback-controlled heated vest in minimizing the decline in core body temperature and cognitive performance during cold exposure in persons with spinal cord injury. The vest prototype was developed in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, US Military Academy at West Point. The preliminary findings hold promise for a bio-engineering intervention to improve the human condition.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, presented work funded by her NSF grant during the Confronting Large N, Holography, Integrability and Stringy Models with the Real World workshop at the Simons Center For Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, on April 5, 2022.
Beth Elenko
School of Health ProfessionsBeth Elenko, Ph.D., associate professor of occupational therapy, was awarded the “Early Intervention Leader in Scholarship and Service” award by the AOTA Roster of Fellows, on April 2, 2022. The AOTA Roster of Fellows recognizes occupational therapist members of AOTA who through their knowledge, expertise, leadership, advocacy, and/or guidance have made a significant contribution over time to the profession with a measured impact on consumers of occupational therapy services and/or members of the Association.
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SoADAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, and Christian Pongratz, M.Arch., professor and director of the M.S. in Architecture, Health and Design, co-wrote an article on the Upcycling exhibition organized by NYIT School of Architecture and Design, that was published in issue 66 of IQD, a prestigious international magazine on design and architecture, on April 1, 2022. The exhibition, supported by Dean Maira Perbellini, took place at the Institute of Italian Culture in New York (Director Fabio Finotti) in March-April 2022, and was curated by the two New York Tech professors. It showcased experiments on receptive materials developed in collaboration with Dustin White, SoAD director of digital technologies and fabrication, within the context of the M.S. in Architecture, Health and Design program The exhibited projects also included collaborative works of Domenico Lucanto, Aurora Perta, and Giovanni Volpe.