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
School of Health ProfessionsJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, presented his team's research on thermoregulatory dysfunction in persons with spinal cord injury at the 2022 Biotechnology Conference: Transforming and Improving the Human Condition, on April 7, 2022. Handrakis provided evidence on the efficacy of his team's feedback-controlled heated vest in minimizing the decline in core body temperature and cognitive performance during cold exposure in persons with spinal cord injury. The vest prototype was developed in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, US Military Academy at West Point. The preliminary findings hold promise for a bio-engineering intervention to improve the human condition.
Matias del Campo
School of Architecture and DesignMatias del Campo, Ph.D., associate professor of architecture, was the guest editor of a special issue of Architectural Design, titled "Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence." Del Campo also contributed four articles to the issue, which was published on April 7, 2022.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, presented work funded by her NSF grant during the Confronting Large N, Holography, Integrability and Stringy Models with the Real World workshop at the Simons Center For Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, on April 5, 2022.
Beth Elenko
School of Health ProfessionsBeth Elenko, Ph.D., associate professor of occupational therapy, was awarded the “Early Intervention Leader in Scholarship and Service” award by the AOTA Roster of Fellows, on April 2, 2022. The AOTA Roster of Fellows recognizes occupational therapist members of AOTA who through their knowledge, expertise, leadership, advocacy, and/or guidance have made a significant contribution over time to the profession with a measured impact on consumers of occupational therapy services and/or members of the Association.
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SoADAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, and Christian Pongratz, M.Arch., professor and director of the M.S. in Architecture, Health and Design, co-wrote an article on the Upcycling exhibition organized by NYIT School of Architecture and Design, that was published in issue 66 of IQD, a prestigious international magazine on design and architecture, on April 1, 2022. The exhibition, supported by Dean Maira Perbellini, took place at the Institute of Italian Culture in New York (Director Fabio Finotti) in March-April 2022, and was curated by the two New York Tech professors. It showcased experiments on receptive materials developed in collaboration with Dustin White, SoAD director of digital technologies and fabrication, within the context of the M.S. in Architecture, Health and Design program The exhibited projects also included collaborative works of Domenico Lucanto, Aurora Perta, and Giovanni Volpe.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts and SciencesSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, was selected to join the KITP (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) Scholars program at UCSB, on March 31, 2022. The KITP Scholars program selects six-to-eight faculty annually from undergrad-focused schools as KITP Scholars. Scholars have the opportunity to spend six weeks over two years at the KITP.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published her essay entitled “Zadie Smith Archiving New York in Grand Union” in the Late Modernism & Expatriation collection, edited by Lauren Arrington and published by Clemson UP in association with Liverpool UP, 2022, pages 63-75, on March 28, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was a panelist at the Harry Ransom Center's "Stoppard Symposium," where he spoke about the works of playwright Tom Stoppard in the context of "Modernism and the Avant-Garde," on March 12, 2022.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a virtual keynote presentation entitled "Office Hours: Sylvia Plath, Pedagogy, and the Archive" at the Sylvia Plath Society Conference, on March 11, 2022.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, was nominated as a finalist for two awards by the American Marketing Association/Marketing Science Institute for her paper entitled "Caring for the Commons: Using Psychological Ownership to Enhance Stewardship Behavior for Public Goods," on March 10, 2022. The two awards Kirk was nominated for are: the H. Paul Root Award, which is given to a paper published in the Journal of Marketing that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing in a calendar year, and the Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award, which recognizes the Journal of Marketing article that makes the most significant contribution to marketing theory and thought within the calendar year. The paper was co-authored with Joann Peck, Andrea Luangrath, and Suzanne Shu.