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.
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological and Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a response to "Expanding the Histone Code," the lead story of the June 6, 2022 edition of Chemical and Engineering News, in the Letters to the Editor, Reactions Section of the same publication on July 14, 2022. His letter, entitled "Beyond B-DNA for Histone Studies," focuses on how the research community of molecular biologists and chemists needs to expand its view of double-stranded DNA beyond that of Watson and Crick's canonical B-DNA molecule and consider exotic, alternative, and multistranded DNA structures when trying to crack the human histone code.
Becky Frieden
ITSBecky Frieden, senior director of enterprise applications and decision support systems, led an EDUCAUSE Webinar, "NYIT’s Journey to a Modern Data Infrastructure for Deep Analysis," on July 14, 2022. When officials at New York Tech wanted to quickly evolve the institution's infrastructure to make data more available, they faced strategic questions around financial aid and recruitment but lacked the data infrastructure and technology to answer them. In this webinar, Frieden shared New York Tech’s analytics journey as it moved from on-premise to the cloud, allowing the university to take a deep dive into its data to answer questions such as whether we were recruiting students likely to be successful and how unmet financial need impacts student retention.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his research mapping of the Korean Demilitarized Zone selected as one of forty international works in the “Experimental Landings” exhibition, located at Nolan Park 14, Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture GAUD Outpost on Governors Island in New York City. Research assistant Elise Park (BArch '25) assisted Kim with the mapping. The exhibit, curated by Jonathan A. Scelsa, David Erdman, and Tulay Atak (Pratt Institute), engages “architectural images of land in the age of climate crisis,” and is open to the public from July 8 through September 1, 2022.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, participated in a roundtable discussion titled “Experimental Analysis” and led a workshop, “Experiencing the Inaccessible: Imagining Future Scenarios for the Joint Security Area with Virtual Reality,” at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)’s 2022 Teachers Summit: “Summit for Climate Agency: Teaching the Design Experiment,” held at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, NY, on July 7-8, 2022.
Claude Gagna
CAS - Biological and Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in investigative ophthalmology & visual sciences (ARVO Annual Meeting) entitled "Multiplex Immunofluorescent Demonstration of B-DNA, Z-DNA and G4-Quadruplex DNA in the Mouse Crystalline Lens: Spatial Genomic Organization of Different DNA Structures, i.e., Genomesorganizomics," on July 1, 2022. This project reveals, for the first time, the distribution of three different structures of nucleic acids within the normal adult crystalline lens of the eye globe. This novel "omics" method reveals how each of the three DNAs plays a different role in gene expression.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, published a book chapter entitled "The Reputation Economy: A Tale as Old as Time or a New Paradigm?" with co-authors Laura S. Rifkin and Canan Corus, in The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Marketing, edited by Annmarie Hanlon and Tracy Tuten, on June 28, 2022.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, lead-authored an article entitled "Just My Luck: Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Differentially Predict Word of Mouth About Promotional Games" in the Journal of Business Research on June 27, 2022. Her co-authors were Joann Peck, Claire M. Hart, and Constantine Sedikides. With an impact factor of 7.55, Journal of Business Research is an A-level journal in marketing and one of the leading journals in business.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, presented his research paper in the "Imaged and Imagined North Korean Materialities: Future Borders, Architectures, Cartographies, Landscapes" session at the 7th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN), "Borderland Futures: Technologies, Zones, Co-existences," on June 24, 2022.
Larry Jaffee
Arts & Sciences/Communication ArtsLarry Jaffee, M.A., adjunct professor of communication arts, hosted the Making Vinyl conference in Nashville, TN on June 23-24, 2022, where he was privileged to introduce music legend T Bone Burnett as closing keynote speaker. Jaffee co-founded Making Vinyl, the only B2B platform dedicated to the global rebirth of the vinyl record manufacturing industry. He also produced a Making Vinyl Europe conference in Frankfurt, Germany on September 1-2, 2022. Since 2017, Jaffee has worked with such music industry luminaries as Jack White, Darryl McDaniels, and Little Steven Van Zandt at Making Vinyl events in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was quoted extensively in a column for the Irish Independent by Colum Murphy titled "100 years after publishing Ulysses, how come James Joyce has never been canceled?", on June 12, 2022. Goldman says: “Yes, Joyce is difficult to read. Yes, not everybody is going to read the book cover to cover. But any kind of engagement with Ulysses is a form of leadership.”