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.
Jordan Thompson
Legal General Counsel's OfficeJordan Thompson, J.D., deputy general counsel and privacy officer, was a panelist at Law.com's General Counsel Conference in New York City on September 26, 2019. The topic of the panel was "Harnessing the Power of Predictive Analytics for Effective Risk Management."
\n\n\nDong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to deliver a lecture titled “The Demilitarized Zone as a Proving Ground” as part of the Penn State University’s College of Arts and Architecture’s Fall Lecture Series on September 25, 2019.
\n\nKate E. O'Hara
Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was selected as one of the artists in the juried show, Grand Installations — Spatial Relations, at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on September 21, 2019. O’Hara’s mixed-media installation, “Opening the Canopy: Relationship with the Land” draws from her background in social science. The installation used 2-D and 3-D representations of her subject’s situatedness: context within place and space. All this, with the aim of informing and aiding the viewer to find a connection that will foster inclusive action and break the cycle of “othering.” The installation represents O’Hara's scholarship that focuses on the use of mixed media, photography in particular, as research methods.
\n\nOrin Davis
ManagementOrin Davis, Ph.D., adjunct assistant professor of management published his first book with Jef van den Hout summarizing over a decade of research on the factors that promote high performance in teams, Team Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Collaboration. This book presents a series of studies that conceptualize, test, and monitor team flow experiences in professional organizations to perform autonomously and successfully. It analyses the processes by which team flow emerges by exemplifying case studies, and introduces a protocol to spark team flow in professional organizations.
Marcella Del Signore
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureMarcella Del Signore, associate professor of architecture, was announced as a finalist for the From Parking to Plaza: a Lafitte Greenway Public Art Challenge competition on September 20, 2019, along with Tulane University professor of practice, Cordula Roser Gray. "From Parking to Plaza," a permanent public art installation on the Lafitte Greenway, seeks to activate and celebrate a public space located at a critical juncture with regard to New Orleans’ history, ecology, and bicycle/pedestrian circulation systems.
\nElizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of Englisha and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered a talk, “Feminism and Disability,” to the Women, Science and Technology Learning Community at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 19, 2019.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published “'Latent Energy': Mulk Raj Anand's Letter to Langston Hughes” in the journal, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, Issue 15 on September 17, 2019.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to exhibit research on New Zealand cities in the “Collective City” exhibition at the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, September 7 - November 10, 2019. Kim presented “Countryside to Cityscape: The Slow Urbanisation of a Wellington Hillside,” with Sam Kebbell at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and “Organizing Enchantment: Collective Responses to Urban Trauma” with Barnaby Bennett at the University of Technology Sydney.
Thomas Verebes
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureTom Verebes, Ph.D., associate dean of architecture, contributed to a large group exhibition at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism with Intact Studio, Yulong Technology, and his own practice, OCEAN CN, September 7 – November 10, 2019. They were selected as one of 70 exhibitors to focus each on a different city. OCEAN CN’s exhibition project focused on Hong Kong, using drone photography, video, and photogrammetry models as the media for capturing and representation.
Thomas Verebes
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureTom Verebes, Ph.D., associate dean of architecture, gave a lecture, “UrbanISMS: Four Short Stories About Hong Kong,” to launch the Architectural Association Visiting School New York at The Cooper Union in New York City on September 3, 2019. In Verebes's lecture, he presented the urban research outcomes of a series of AA Visiting School programs in Shanghai and Shenzhen.