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.
Pejman Sanaei
MathematicsPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had his paper "Open capillary siphons," published in Fluid Mechanics RAPIDS on December 9, 2020.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts and SciencesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, published her chapter, “Bring Us Back: Photographs for Meaning Making and Knowledge Production,” in the edited volume, Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching, published by Brill Publishing on December 7, 2020. O’Hara’s chapter is narrative style, relating the process and pedagogical methods for engaging students in critical reflection, meaning-making, and knowledge production through the use of visual and textual heuristics.
Mindy Haar
School of Health Professions School of Health Professions Interdisciplinary Health SciencesAlex Rothstein, M.S., program coordinator of exercise science, and Mindy Haar, Ph.D., director of academic management for the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, had their research paper titled “Best Practices for Encouraging Student Participation in Both Face-to-Face and Virtual Environments” published in the Journal of Allied Health on December 1, 2020.
Charles Pavia
College of Osteopathic Medicine College of Osteopathic Medicine Basic Sciences Biomedical SciencesCharles Pavia, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Gary P. Wormser of New York Medical College, Valhalla, had their research article, “COVID-19: Is there a role for Western blots and skin testing for determining immunity and development of a vaccine?,” published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, on December 1, 2020.
Ahmadreza Baghaie
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Electrical & Computer EngineeringAhmadreza Baghaie, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, had an article, “Time-resolved denoising using model order reduction, dynamic mode decomposition, and Kalman filter and smoother,” published in the Journal of Computational Dynamics on December 1, 2020. This research was done in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Medical College of Wisconsin on developing novel dynamic mode decomposition and Kalman filter-based techniques for the denoising of time-resolved data, with applications in computational fluid dynamics and medical blood flow imaging.
Beth Elenko
School of Health ProfessionsBeth Elenko, Ph.D., associate professor of occupational therapy, published an article entitled “Reflections of Early Intervention Certificate Program (EICP),” in Reflections In Helping Professions on November 27, 2020. The paper is a reflection on Elenko's transition from practicing OT to doctoral student to academic professor providing continuing education to other providers about early intervention (EI) services for infants and young children under the age of three and their families.
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences/MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, with his students from New York Tech, Mikhail Smirnov, Dave Persaud, Hamad El Kahza, Tanvi Patel and former students from NYU, Daniel Chin and Michael Yue Li, presented five talks at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics on November 22-24, 2020.
Steven Shapiro
School of Management/FinanceSteven J. Shapiro, Ph.D., professor of accounting and finance, and Phyliss Shapiro, M.D., presented “Cost Measurement: The Interface of Life Care Planner and Economic Expert” at the National Association of Forensic Economics Southern Regional Meeting held virtually on November 20, 2020.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his collaborative urban design work with Tommy Yang, “Pollinating Sudbury: Curating Scenarios,” shortlisted as one of the finalists in the Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition, on November 19, 2020. The proposal was one of 13 finalists selected out of 100 submissions.
Rajendram Rajnarayanan
College of Osteopathic Medicine College of Osteopathic Medicine Research-JonesboroRajendram Rajnarayanan, M.SC., Ph.D., assistant dean of research and associate professor of biomedical sciences at NYITCOM-Arkansas, had his article, “Pharmacological Actions of Carbamate Insecticides at Mammalian Melatonin Receptors,” published in Aspet: The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics on November 17, 2020. In his research, he demonstrated that carbamate insecticides compete for melatonin receptor binding in the master biological clock (suprachiasmatic nucleus) and phase advances overt circadian activity rhythms in C3H/HeN mice, supporting the relevance of circadian effects when interpreting toxicological findings related to insecticide exposure.