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.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has been awarded an NIH Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant as principal investigator. The project, The Effects of Cue Precision on Medical Imaging Interpretation, was awarded on August 12, 2025, and it will investigate how radiologists interpret complex medical images when aided by artificial intelligence, using eye-tracking data to optimize how visual cues are delivered. In parallel, the grant supports the Human Factors And Neuroscience Lab’s student-centered training model as a pipeline for student success.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article, entitled "How Concealing Sharing Economy Ratings Undermines Consumers' Trustworthiness and Appeal Across Digital Spaces," in Journal of Consumer Behaviour, an A-level marketing journal, on August 12, 2025. People in the sharing economy are often rated for their behavior, and those ratings now appear on other platforms. For example, an Uber rating can appear on a dating app. Across four experiments, the researchers find that hiding such a rating can make someone seem less trustworthy or appealing. These results suggest that sharing economy ratings influence reputations beyond their original platforms and that keeping them private can backfire.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article entitled "Maybe don't say 'maybe': How and why invitees fail to realize that they should not respond to invitations with a 'maybe'," in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology on August 7, 2025. This journal is a top-quality journal in business and one of the top journals in social psychology. In this research, Kirk and her coauthors show that invitees often choose to say “maybe” instead of “no” to social invitations because they mistakenly believe it’s what inviters prefer, when in fact, inviters feel more disrespected by indecision than by direct rejection.
Victoria Cuomo
School of Health ProfessionsVictoria Cuomo, M.S.N., a nursing instructor in the School of Health Professions, was named "Nurse of the Week" by The Daily Nurse, an online news, career, and opinion magazine for nurses in the United States. Cuomo was featured in an article published August 6, 2025, "From Bedside to Blackboard: Victoria Cuomo’s Mission to Mentor the Next Generation."
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was named one of Long Island's top influencers in healthcare for 2025 by the Long Island Business News, on July 25, 2025. He was honored for his research in developing novel AI clinical pathology diagnostic tools and molecular biological-based research methods in genomics for cancer research.
Matthias Altwicker
School of Architecture and DesignMatthias Altwicker, M.U.P., B.Arch., associate professor of architecture, curated an exhibit, Living in the Shade: Open Space and Public Housing, which opened July 23, 2025, at the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. The exhibit highlights the significant role of open space in the daily lives of millions of public housing residents who have called New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments home.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, gave a public book talk lecture at Lectures on Tap, an organization hosting professors and experts giving thought-provoking weekly lectures inside of bars all over New York City. The lecture was held at NeueHouse NYC, on July 21, 2025.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to serve on the distinguished jury panel of the 2025 "Urban Design Lab Competition Publication," alongside seven other panel members with urban expertise from universities around the world. Registration for the publication began on April 19, 2025, and the date set for jury consideration of submissions was July 20, 2025.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was interviewed in the Financial Times on the subject of her research on using AI with students. In the July 18, 2025, article, "Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education," she said that "the more novel and unique the proposition is, the harder it is for them to use AI."
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, co-organized, co-lead, and co-piloted the international "Urban Intelligence Workshop," a multi-institutional collaboration with Korea University and Parsons School of Design, which was held at Korea University's Division of Smart Cities campus in Sejong City, South Korea, from July 7–14, 2025. This one-week intensive summer workshop, conducted with the participation of 14 Korea University students, explored the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in urban design processes and the contemporary smart city development paradigm.