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.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, published his “review” of George Eliot’s Middlemarch “Middlemarch at 150,” in the Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, Vol. 53, no. 2, 2022, pp. 299-303. The article, published on September 1, 2022, celebrated the occasion of the novel's 150th anniversary of publication. Guilano's Lewis Carroll: The Worlds of His Alices was reviewed earlier in the year by Jan Susina in Victorian Studies, Spring 2022 (64:3), 499-502.
Becky Frieden
ITSBecky Frieden, senior director, enterprise applications and decision support systems, was interviewed by The Tambellini Group, the leading independent technology research, analyst, and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to higher education, on August 12, 2022, as part of their "Women in Tech" series. In her interview, Frieden talks about how she leverages the intersection of technology and people to make good business decisions and to make students' lives better.
Niharika Nath
College of Arts and SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a book chapter entitled "Undergraduate Research in Medicine" with co-author Sara A. Myers, in The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research, on August 11, 2022.
Karen Vahey
EnrollmentKaren Vahey, Ed.D., dean of admissions and financial aid, has been selected to serve on the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Ad Hoc Committee on Centering Students in the Development of Equitable Admission Practices for the 2022-2023 academic year. The appointment was announced on August 10, 2022. This committee will be tasked with helping NACAC operationalize the recommendations included in the NACAC-NASFAA report, "Toward a More Equitable Future for Postsecondary Access," focusing on the inclusion of students in the development of college admission counseling policies and practices, particularly where questions of equity are involved. The committee will create a framework for institutions to use in identifying student populations for inclusion, structuring conversations with students, and integrating student recommendations into policy and practice.
Radoslaw Nowak
School of ManagementRadoslaw (Radek) Nowak, Ph.D., associate professor of human resource studies, presented his paper, "When Speed in Decision Making Improves Firm Performance: The Role of Absorptive Capacity" at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, the most prestigious annual academic conference in the area of business and management, virtually, on August 8, 2022. In his research, Nowak investigates the effect of speed in strategic decision-making—how quickly firms implement key changes in their business strategy—and how it impacts organizational performance.
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological and Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (i.e., Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2022 Annual Meeting) entitled "Identification of Z-DNA, G4-DNA and B-DNA in epidermis: Spatial genomic organization of different DNA structures (Genomesorganizomics)", on August 1, 2022. Data from this research project shows, for the first time, the presence and distribution of three totally different structures of DNA molecules within normal human skin. These DNAs (canonical, alternative, and multistranded DNAs) were characterized simultaneously within the nucleus of cells, allowing for studies on gene expression between different forms of DNA.
Ron Goldberg
Enrollment Management and Strategic CommunicationsRon Goldberg, web content editor in the Office of Enrollment Management and Strategic Communications, was one of four leading HIV/AIDS activists interviewed and quoted in the article ”For pioneering AIDS activists, monkeypox outbreak evokes déjàvu,” published on NBCNews.com on July 31, 2022.
Paulana Lamonier
SCEAPaulana Lamonier, social media strategist in the Department of Enrollment Management and Strategic Communications, is featured in Sports Illustrated as part of their series, "Elle-evate: 100 Influential Black Women in Sports." Lamonier's profile, "Paulana Lamonier Is Smashing the Stereotype That Black People Don’t Swim," was published on July 22, 2022, and focuses on her work with her organization, Black People Will Swim.
SHINU KURIAKOSE
School of Health ProfessionsShinu Kuriakose, DHSc, PA-C, associate professor of physician assistant studies, published an article, "Assessing the Effect of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Didactic Education and Mental Health of Physician Assistant Students in the New York City Region," in the Journal of Physician Assistant Studies on July 20, 2022. The article was written in collaboration with Stony Brook and Hofstra Universities.
Melda Yildiz
CAS/ EducationMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, had her article, "Algorithmic Social Justice through Participatory Action Research: Media Binds or Blinds?," published in