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.
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
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth 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.
Pejman 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.
\n\n\nPablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
School of Architecture & Design ArchitecturePablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, presented his research on Wolfram Mathematica, “Site-Specific Adaptable Robotic 3-D Printer and e-Chaise Longue,” at the 2019 Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaign, Illinois on October 30, 2019.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed on the “HealthLink on Air” podcast, WRVO, SUNY Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, N.Y., on October 30, 2019.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered a Keynote Lecture and Workshop at the 'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Drawing Out the Public Sphere, symposium at Syracuse University, in Syracuse, N.Y. Her lecture, “'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities,” was presented on October 29, 2019, and her workshop, “Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” was presented on October 30, 2019, at the Symposium.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was an invited speaker at the Artist Talk Series: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook, Brooklyn on October 26, 2019. O’Hara’s talk, "Capturing Lived Experience," explained her use of arts-based methods in her social science research.