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.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences | EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in the New York Public Library's Researcher Spotlight series on May 15, 2020, discussing his work on the “New York, 1920” project.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences | EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, has Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, published on May 14, 2020 by Routledge.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was an organizer and a referee for the annual Posthuman Global Symposium, held at New York University, New York on April 30 - May 2, 2020.
Charles Pavia
College of Osteopathic Medicine Basic Sciences Biomedical SciencesCharles Pavia, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, is the co-editor of the publication Immunological Methods in Microbiology, published April 29, 2020, as well as the author of one of the chapters. Maria Plummer, M.D., associate professor, Department of Clinical Specialties, and Tony Slieman, Ph.D., associate professor and director of academic afairs for NYITCOM-Arkansas, also co-authored chapters in the same publication. \n \n
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences | MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, and Yixuan Sun, graduate student, had their article, "Modeling and design optimization for pleated membrane filters," published on April 27, 2020 in Physical Review Fluids. Their article speaks to the use of pleated membrane filters in a wide variety of applications.
\nNiharika Nath
College of Arts & Sciences Biological & Chemical SciencesNiharika Nath, Ph.D, professor of biological and chemical sciences, was elected to be a Council Representative on the Executive Board of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) on April 27, 2020. This leadership opportunity gives New York Tech a voice at the national level and is a testament to Nath’s many years of service to CUR, her commitment to undergraduate education in general, and undergraduate research in particular. Nath will serve for a three-year term, beginning June 27, 2020.
Suzanne Musho
Suzanne Musho, AIA, NCARB, vice president for capital planning and facilities management and chief architect, participated in the Professional Women in Construction New York Chapter's first virtual panel event on Higher Education Construction on April 21, 2020. Musho joined panelists Andrew Christ, PE, senior vp for real estate development and capital operations at NJIT, and Kimberlae Saul, AIA, director of planning, design + construction at the Pratt Institute to address the status and future of construction in institutions of higher education in the New York City area, how the industry as a whole is changing in response to COVID-19, and the potential impacts to in-person and remote education, residence halls, safety, and continuing facilities work.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article abstract titled “MicroCT Scanner to Differentiate Histotechnological Processing of Bone Tissue Using Different Nucleic Acid‐Based Fixatives” in the April 2020 issue of The FASEB Journal. The article discusses how different histotechnological fixation of bone tissue can result in the preservation of canonical and exotic DNAs.
Milan Toma
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Mechanical EngineeringMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published a paper, “Mechanism of Coup and Contrecoup Injuries Induced by a Knock-Out Punch,” co-authored by his graduate student, Christopher Lipari, in the Journal of Mathematical and Computational Applications on April 15, 2020.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his video, “COVID-19 Check-In,” published on the University of Tulsa's websiteas part of the "James Joyce Quarterly," on April 13, 2020.