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.
John Handrakis
SHP/Department of Physical TherapyJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, was the invited speaker at Grand Rounds, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, on November 2, 2021. He presented, “Thermoregulatory Dysfunction After Spinal Cord Injury,” the findings of his thermoregulation research program at the VA RR&D National Center for the Medical Consequences of SCI and their clinical relevance. Many of his New York Tech DPT students were research assistants on several of the funded studies and were acknowledged for their contributions. Sixty-five people, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, attending physicians, fellows, residents, research scientists, and research coordinators were in attendance.
Elizabeth Donaldson
CAS/HumanitiesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at the College of Liberal Arts, Wenzhou Kean University, Wenzhou, China, via Zoom, on November 1, 2021.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Many Giants of Black Baseball," an article about the numerous NYC Black baseball teams and the ballparks they were playing in as the first-ever all-NYC World Series went on one hundred years ago, in the Village Voice on October 28, 2021.
Karen Vahey
EnrollmentKaren Vahey, Ed.D., dean of admissions and financial aid, co-presented "Communicating Return on College Investment to High School Students and Families" at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021 in Philadelphia, PA, on October 28, 2021.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Birasnav Muthuraj, Ph.D., associate professor of management science studies, and Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor of management, published "Improving School performance and Student academic orientation: the role of Safety-oriented Knowledge management and Diversity" in the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems on October 25, 2021.
Vera Manzi-Schacht
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Digital Art & DesignVera Manzi-Schacht, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of digital art and design, had her terracotta sculpture, “Remembrance,” a fired terra-cotta sculpture incised with the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, featured in the book \nHow to Understand Art (Art Essentials) by Janetta Rebold Benton, published by Thames & Hudson on October 26, 2021. The book is part of their Essential Art Series and is being translated into Chinese, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English (American and British versions), Russian, and Latvian.
\n\n\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a review of Heather Clark's biography, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf, 2020), to Modernism/modernity's Print Plus on October 21, 2021.
Charles Pavia
College of Osteopathic MedicineCharles Pavia, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences, and Maria Plummer, M.D., associate professor, department of clinical specialities, published two articles, "The evolution of rapid antigen detection systems and their application for COVID-19 and other serious respiratory infectious diseases" to Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, on October 5, 2021, and "Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Easter" to the Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, on April 8, 2021.
Randy Stout
College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biomedical SciencesRandy Stout, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of the Center for Biomedical Innovation, presented his research at the 2021 NYSCF Conference on October 19, 2021, in a poster describing results of his collaboration with NYSCF researcher in the lab of Valentina Fosatti, Ph.D. Medical student Yamini Nori and staff member Lars Udo-Bellner, Ph.D. worked with Stout to use 3-D super-resolution imaging and new computational analysis techniques to study the reaction of adult human-derived induced pluripotent stem cells converted to neural cells to inflammatory factors. The research revealed new information about how connectivity changes during neuroinflammation seen in neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. The research is aimed at identifying new therapies for neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis.
\nEdward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English, published his essay, “Celebrating Through the Looking-Glass 150, or ‘It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards…’,” about the experience of re-reading Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass on the eve of the sesquicentennial of its publication, in DSA: Essays on Victorian Fiction, vol 52 no. 2, on October 18, 2021.