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.
Luzia Ogureck
International & Experiential EducationLuzia Ogureck, M.A., associate director of experiential education, along with New York Tech's Consultants for the Public Good, were selected as the Gold Award Winner for the NASPA Excellence Awards in the civic learning democratic engagement, community service, service-learning categories, and more. Ogureck and the Consultants were recognized at the 2020 NASPA Annual Conference, in Austin, TX, March 28-April 1, 2020.
Andrew Costello
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesAndrew Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral sciences, was interviewed for an article “As Coronavirus Surges, Crime Declines in Some Cities,” by Simone Weichselbaum and Weihua Li, published in The Marshall Project on March 27, 2020.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences | EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his article, “Babe Ruth's New York at 100,” published in Public Books on March 26, 2020. Goldman's article, speaks on the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees and its impact on modern culture. The article was then listed by History News Network's in its Roundup Top Ten for March 27, 2020. Goldman's article is an offshoot of his ISRC-Grant-sponsored project, “New York 1920: When We Became Modern.”
Michael Nizich
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Dean's OfficeMichael Nizich, Ph.D., adjunct assistant professor of computer science and director of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), joined the NY Metro ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) Chapter Board on March 17, 2020.
Sarah McGough
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Dean's OfficeZiqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the ASEE 2020 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award in the non-Ph.D. granting program category. The award was presented at the Engineering Research Council’s (ERC) Engineering Leadership Institute on March 10, 2020, at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, VA.
Batu Chalise
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Dean's OfficeBatu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, was awarded the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (SFRF) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) SFRF, for 2020 on March 6, 2020. Under the ONR-SFRF program, Chalise will spend ten continuous weeks this summer at the Radar Division, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in Washington D.C., conducting cutting edge research on distributed detection theory and resource allocation for MIMO and passive radar systems. Under the AFRL-SFRF program, he will spend eight continuous weeks this summer at the AFRL Sensors Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio. Chalise will conduct research to develop deep learning techniques for multiple target tracking in surveillance radar systems.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, had his chapter “Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation,” published in AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon on March 5, 2020. This chapter not only traces the advent of proto-AI in fictional and non-fictional Renaissance literature but also its points of contact with today's AI and related social concerns.
Steven Shapiro
School of Management FinanceSteven J. Shapiro, Ph.D., professor of accounting and finance, presented a paper that he co-authored with Lauren Shapiro, Esq. on “Recent Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Cases and the Forensic Damages Expert” at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference in Boston on February 29, 2020.
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College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was the subject for a feature article "Jonathan Goldman: Bump And Let It Slide," that was published on February 27, 2020 in All About Jazz magazine.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was invited to speak at the 16th Annual International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference in Spokane, Washington on February 27, 2020. O’Hara’s talk, “Working Toward a Culturally Sustainable Pedagogy,” related the micro and macro efforts to create culturally sustainable pedagogical practices in higher education. The presentation included narrative and visual accounts of curriculum design, high impact practices, and institution-wide initiatives.