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 Misak
New York Institute of TechnologyJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, “Perchance to Read: Developing an Augmented Reality Game to Increase Student Engagement with Hamlet” in Early Modern Culture Online on January 26, 2020.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to deliver a talk, “Borders as Urbanism: Reframing Rivers as Productive Urbanism,” at the Northeast Asian Urban Studies conference at the University of Seoul, sponsored by Institute of Seoul Studies on January 22, 2020.
\nKevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was asked to be a referee for the Canadian government's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grants for 2020 on January 16, 2020.
\nBernadette Riley
College of Osteopathic Medicine Clinical Sciences Family MedicineBernadette Riley, D.O., associate professor of family medicine and director of the NYIT Ehlers Danlos Center, published “The Ehlers–Danlos Syndromes” in Osteopathic Family Physician on January 3, 2020.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, organized and moderated the session “Scholarly Editing Now” at the annual Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, Washington on January 11, 2020. At the convention, Golden served on the Delegate Assembly as a representative of the Executive Committee for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, guest-edited a peer-reviewed special cluster on “Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities” on January 10, 2020 for the third issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, originally published in 2018. The journal received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and the third issue was one of the prize-winning issues.
\nJohn Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a “Hamlet with Augmented Reality: An AR Application for Understanding Shakespeare” for the Modern Language Association's 2020 conference on January 10, 2020.
Vera Manzi-Schacht
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Digital Art & DesignVera Manzi-Schacht, M.F.A., adjunct professor of digital art and design, exhibited her terracotta sculpture, “Remembrance,” at the Denise Bibro Fine Arts Gallery in New York City, as part of the Art from the Boros VII exhibition, January 9 - February 8, 2020.
Bernadette Riley
College of Osteopathic Medicine Clinical Sciences Family MedicineBernadette Riley, D.O., associate professor of family medicine and director of the NYIT Ehlers Danlos Center, published “The Many Facets of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome” in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association on January 7, 2020.
Deborah Cohn
School of Management/ Marketing StudiesDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing, and Joshua E. Bienstock, L.L.M., J.D., assistant professor of human resource management, presented "Workplace Social Media Relationships and Their Impact on Leadership and Ethics: It’s a Risky Business" at the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference on January 7, 2020, at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Their presentation explored the research on the ethical consequences of power imbalanced social media relationships between supervisors and subordinates. They employed a phenomenological qualitative research design of an in-depth interview and found out that professionals are often encouraged to have an open friending culture to help promote the brand and workplace harmony. Their research also showed managerial recommendations that include guidelines for social media friending to address ethical standards and leadership challenges.