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.
Niharika Nath
College of Arts & Sciences Biological & Chemical SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D, professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a perspective titled, “Tumor associated macrophages and, 'NO'” in the June 2020 issue of Journal of Biochemical Pharmocology. he article discusses how nitric oxide gaseous signaling molecule may program and reprogram macrophages that can go onto either promote or prevent tumor growth.
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College of Arts & Sciences Biological & Chemical SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D, professor of biological and chemical sciences, and her student Thuy Tien Le (B.S.'15) published a research paper, “NOSH-aspirin (NBS-1120) inhibits pancreatic cancer cell growth in a xenograft mouse model: Modulation of FoxM1, p53, NF-κB, iNOS, caspase-3 and Reactive oxygen species, ” in Biochemical Pharmacology on June 2, 2020. The article demonstrates the anti-cancer potential of nitric oxide—and hydrogen sulfide—donating hybrid molecule of aspirin.
\nSusana Case
College of Arts & Sciences | Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her book of poems, Dead Shark on the N Train, published on June 1, 2020 by Broadstone Books.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture & DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, published a journal article, “Borders as Urbanism: A Preliminary Study on Realigning Border Rivers as Productive Spaces,” in The Journal of Seoul studies on May 31, 2020. The article expands his ongoing research on nation-states borders and their relationship to architecture.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented “'It bides its time': Sylvia Plath's Library and The Earthenware Head” at the Sylvia Plath Zoomposium on May 30, 2020.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, gave a talk titled “Why it is Helpful and Dangerous to Use AI to Fight Covid” at the The Philosophical and Political Implications of Covid19 and the Posthuman symposium, on May 30, 2020. The symposium was organized by the NY Posthuman Research Group and NYU. LaGrandeur talk was attended by 250 people from around the world, from countries including China, India, South Korea, and in the Middle East and Europe.
Yusui Chen
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences PhysicsYusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, had his research paper, “Exact entanglement dynamics mediated by leaky optical cavities&,rdquo; published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics on May 27, 2020.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences | EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his article, “The New York City Overalls Parade, 1920,” published on CUNY's The Gotham Center for New York City History website on May 26, 2020. Goldman's article is an offshoot of his ISRC-Grant-sponsored project, “New York 1920: When We Became Modern."
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences | EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, discussed her book, Annotating Modernism, on the Plath & Co podcast, hosted by Eilish Mulholland on May 21, 2020.
Samuel Hedemann
College of Arts & Sciences | PhysicsSamuel Hedemann, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of physics, had his research article, “Correlance and discordance: computable measures of nonlocal correlation,” published on May 20, 2020 by Springer Science+Business Media. This paper, presents several highly useful results in quantum information, with applications extending across all technical fields. It defines several measures of nonlocal correlation in N-body systems, which are exactly computable for all states. In particular, the most general measure, called correlance, can detect all possible nonlocal correlation (including bound entanglement), and is also adapted for nonquantum data, with demonstrations showing that it completely outperforms traditional measures such as the Pearson correlation coefficient. Another measure, the discordance, is shown to be an attractive alternative to quantum discord, both in terms of computability and conceptual validity.