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.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
College of Arts and SciencesChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, published a paper, "Gravitomagnetic plasma battery II: Impact of vertical disk structure on seed magnetic field generation," in Elsevier’s Fundamental Plasma Physics journal, on June 9, 2026. The article explores how magnetic fields are born around rotating black holes.
Maryam Ravam
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences / Electrical & Computer EngineeringMaryam Ravan, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Region 1 Award for Technological Innovation (Academic), approved on June 7, 2026. She was recognized "for pioneering contributions to advanced signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms, with impactful applications in biomedical engineering, microwave imaging and sensing, non-destructive testing, and radar systems."
Michael Schiavi
School of Arts and SciencesMichael Schiavi, Ph.D., professor of humanities, appears as a film historian in the new documentary, MINESHAFT: THE CRUISING MURDERS, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 and has since played the Frameline50 Festival in San Francisco and the Provincetown Film Festival. The film is a study of homophobic murders that took place in New York City.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was elected as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors on June 3, 2026, in recognition of innovative research, patented technologies, and contributions to the advancement of invention, education, and societal impact.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented "Autofiction in Children’s and YA Literature: Does It Exist?" at the Children's Literature Association Conference, in Pittsburgh, on May 29, 2026. The paper and presentation explored memoirs and fictional autobiographies in children's and young-adult fiction that complicate the conventions of storytelling.
John Zweck
College of Arts and SciencesJohn Zweck, Ph.D., professor of math, in the College of Arts and Sciences, presented a talk on “Spectral stability via the Fredholm determinant of a trace class Birman-Schwinger operator" at the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures at Concordia University in Montreal on May 29, 2026.
Abhishek Singh
Institutional ResearchAbhishek Singh, M.S., research associate, presented at the 2026 AIR (Association for Institutional Research) Forum on May 27, 2026, in Washington D.C. His session, "Student Intelligence Ecosystem," introduced a practical framework for transforming institutional research data into actionable student success strategies. By integrating student satisfaction inventory results with academic data, the framework produces aggregate insights delivered through an interactive Student Success Hub dashboard.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented a paper, "New York's James Joyce: Multiculturalism and the Irish Cultural Diaspora," at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, in Chicago, on May 23, 2026. The presentation analyzed James Joyce's historical reception in New York City.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published three articles in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on May 20, 2026. One, co-authored with Michael Nizich, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of computer science and director of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), was titled "A Novel Omics Platform for Nucleic Acid Structural Spatial Genome Organization (“Genomesorganizomics”)." Two others were titled "Structural Spatial Transcriptomics: A Conformation-Resolved Omics Framework for Mapping RNA Structural States During Active Transcription in Intact Cells and Tissues" and "STRuCT-GENE: Structural Transition Characterization of Genes through Integrated Prediction of Noncanonical DNA Conformations to Reveal Structure-Encoded Regulatory and Genomic Instability Signatures."
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, was interviewed for “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Writing Must-Have? Stolen Pink Paper,” published in The Independent on May 19, 2026.