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.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., associate professor of architecture, presented at the “Post-Human Korea: Religion and Feminism in the Post-Cold War Technoscape” symposium at Marist University on March 25, 2026. The symposium brought together scholars from across the East Coast to discuss posthumanism, religion, feminism, and Cold War legacies in the Korean context from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has published a paper, "Assessing the role of magician patter on deception in the Three-Card Monte," in Scientific Reports on March 23, 2026. The project quantifies the effects of narrative on attentional misdirection.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., associate professor of architecture, delivered a lecture titled "University as a Laboratory: Exploring the Role of Architecture through Research and Teaching" as part of the Gyeongsang National University (GNU) School of Architecture's 2026 Spring Lecture Series on March 19, 2026, in Jinju, Korea.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was interviewed by Spotlight on Success's David Levine on March 19, 2026. Rogoff spoke about Bird Woman, Sacajawea, a film she created partly with AI tools.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineAI research conducted by Milan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, has been cited in several media outlets recently. The research, highlighted the unreliability of general-use AI chatbots for medical diagnosis, has been mentioned in MedicalXPress.com on March 13, 2026; News-Medical.Net on March 16, 2026; and Medical Buyer on March 17, 2026.
Edgar Papazian
School of Architecture and DesignEdgar Papazian, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, has published an article on Drawing Matter, a website for a charitable trust based in the United Kingdom, that explores the role of drawing in architectural thought. The March 16, 2026, article, titled "Baroqsysms," describes his use of artificial intelligence in revealing aspects of Italian Baroque facades through orthographic drawing-to-photograph interpolations in the form of short animations.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "The Opening of the Savoy, the Most Inclusive Club in Harlem, 100 Years Ago" in the Sycopated Times, on March 11, 2026. The Savoy was the first New York City venue to disregard Jim Crow practices.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper, "Prevalence and Clinical Patterns of Piriformis Syndrome Among Actively Competing and Retired Elite Hockey Players," in Sports, on March 2, 2026. The study revealed that over a quarter (25.4%) of high-level hockey players experience substantial symptoms of piriformis syndrome, highlighting a significant but previously under-recognized health issue in this athletic population.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was formally accepted as a senior member into the National Academy of Inventors on February 26, 2026.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper, "Chatting Ain't Diagnosing: Diagnostic Variability and Fundamental Errors in Multimodal LLM Interpretation in Radiology," in Algorithms, an academic journal, published on February 25, 2026. The paper systematically evaluated five leading multimodal large language models (including GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, Llama 4 Maverick, Grok 4, and Claude Opus 4.5 Extended) on a standardized radiological interpretation task. The authors found a high rate of fundamental diagnostic errors and significant variability between models, even on straightforward cases. Sungjoon Hong, a NYITCOM first-year medical student, and Mihir Matalia, development security operations engineer from the NYITCOM Academic Technologies Group, were co-authors of the paper.