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.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, spoke at “How She Sang: Celebrating the Life and Work of Poet Anne Sexton, 1928-1974," held at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., on October 30, 2024.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, wrote a letter to the editor of the American Chemical Society's Chemical & Engineering News. The letter, "Reactions: Attrition in science and noncanonical structures for DNA-based computers," was published on October 27, 2024. Gagna responded to an important article written on how double-stranded DNA could replace silicon chips in the future; he suggested that researchers need to think beyond the canonical, traditional Watson-Crick right-handed double-stranded B-DNA, to take advantage of other DNA structures.
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College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article, Editors and Journals: Part III- "Sto Tavo (Who is in Charge)?" on October 22, 2024. The article addresses various issues related to publishing peer-reviewed journal articles by academics, researchers, editors, and journals.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, published two articles in Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction. The first was published on March 18, 2024: “An Interview with James R. Kincaid, an English professor masquerading as an author (or the other way around)," in vol. 55, no. 1 (2024), 69-77. The second was published on October 15, 2024: “Far from the Madding Crowd at 150: Seven Reflections,” in vol. 55, no. 2 (2024), 219-259.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a short essay contributing to a print roundtable, "Death from a Thousand Cuts: A Roundtable on the 1937 Gatsby Condensation", in The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 2023, published September 2024. The feature addressed the expurgated, serialized 1937 version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Goldman's section analyzed the novel's chapter 5, the central chapter of the novel.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published an article, "The Monkeypox (Mpox) Dilemmas: What Is the Clinical and Histologic Presentation of the Bullae and Are They Infectious, and Why Is the Infection Dying Out So Quickly?" in SKINmed, a peer-reviewed publication, on September 21, 2024. Gagna examined the pathological consequences of this skin disorder, via histopathological staining methods, to improve clinical diagnosis of the pathology. Mpox is a very infectious disease that can cause painful enlarged lymph nodes, rash, fever, and muscle pain. Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is an enveloped double-stranded DNA virus.
William Letsou
College of Arts and SciencesWilliam Letsou, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological and chemical sciences, recently published an article entitled "The indispensable role of time in autonomous development", in the December 2024 issue of BioSystems, published online on September 21, 2024. It talks about the mathematical biology autonomous development in the journal BioSystems. The paper reimagines the famous Waddington landscape of developmental biology, by blending concepts from the physics of vector fields and rotational motion.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, has written a a new book, Lewis Carroll Collections & Collectors, available from the University of Virginia Press. It was published on September 13, 2024.
William Letsou
College of Arts & Sciences/Department of Biological & Chemical SciencesWilliam Letsou, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological and chemical sciences, published an invited editorial in JNCI Cancer Spectrum entitled "Settling the score: what composite measures of social determinants tell us about hypertension risk" on September 2, 2024. The article explores the study on social determinants of hypertension risk in cancer survivors.
Nayoung Kim
College of Arts and SciencesNayoung Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral science, received the NARACES New Professional Award on September 1, 2024. This recognition is given to only one pre-tenured faculty member each year in the North Atlantic region by NARACES, a regional branch of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. This award recognizes a pre-tenured or new professional counselor educator in the NARACES region who has demonstrated promise in all areas of an academic position: teaching, scholarship, and service.