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.
Elizabeth Donaldson
NYITElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered remarks in a book roundtable celebrating the publication of Black Madness: Mad Blackness, with author Therí Alyce Pickens, at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, in New York City on November 12, 2019.
Amy Bravo
International & Experiential EducationTerry Nauheim, M.F.A., associate professor of digital art and design, Michael Hosenfeld, associate professor of digital art and design, Paul Demonte, M.A., adjunct instructor of communication arts, Adrienne McNally, M.S., director of experiential education, and Amy Bravo, M.A., senior director of international and experiential education, presented at AACU's Transforming STEM Higher Education conference on November 9, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Their presentation, “Strategies for Reforming Academic Models to Support Community Partnership,” spoke about Ready for Take-Off, a student-driven documentary film project that raises public awareness about flight, mobility, and advancement for people with disabilities. Ready for Take-Off engaged students and faculty of New York Tech to produce a short documentary film, commemorating the fifth anniversary of a JetBlue flight for disabled high school students of the Henry Viscardi School of the Viscardi Center.
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a poster about "Experimental Engagements" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of California in Irvine, California on November 9, 2019.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English presented “An AR Hamlet Mystery” at the Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, in Irvine, California on October 31, 2019.
Mary+Ann Achtziger
College of Osteopathic Medicine Student AdministrationMary Ann Achtziger, M.S., associate dean of student administration at NYITCOM, moderated a round table of professional school administrators and presented on NYITCOM at the Long Island Council of Student Personnel Administrators Conference on November 8, 2019, at SUNY Old Westbury. The roundtable, "Understanding Professional Schools of Medicine and Law," included Felicia Bruno, assistant dean of student administration at NYITCOM, and colleagues from Stony Brook and Hofstra University.
Elizabeth Donaldson
NYITElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of Englisha and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered her paper, “Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: Sylvia Plath’s Experimental Engagements with Spoiled Identities,” at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts annual conference in Irvine, California, on November 8, 2019.
\nPejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored an article with Hamed Behzad, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, titled “On optimizing the wave energy converters configuration in a farm,” published on November 6, 2019, about how finite arrays of bottom-hinged flap-type wave energy converters are modeled using a numerical approach. The converters are similar to the ones from Aquamarine Power, which is called Oyster, using ANSYS-AQWA as software for numerical simulation. The goal of this study is to optimize the annual energy absorption of a farm depending on the lateral and vertical spacing between converters based on a wave-spectrum case study.
SHINU KURIAKOSE
Shinu Kuriakose, D.H.Sc., PA-C, associate professor of physician assistant studies, published his article, “Global Health: Global Infectious Disease Control Systems,” on October 30, 2019 in the World Journal of Yoga, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her chapbook of poems, Body Falling, Sunday Morning, published on October 31, 2019. Her book is based upon the mid-century crime models of Frances Glessner Lee, the mother of crime scene investigation.
\nKevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English were interviewed by the internet business magazine, Hypergrid Business. They were quoted in the article, “Profs Bring Hamlet into AR,” where they spoke about their project to bring Hamlet into the classroom as an Augmented Reality game. The article was published on October 31, 2019.
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