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.
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 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 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.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was quoted extensively in two articles in The Economist Careers Network newsletter on how to build vocabulary when preparing to take the GRE. The first article, focuses on building vocabulary through reading, games, apps, and more. The second article, on building vocabulary through listening. Both articles were published in September 2019.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, presented his research paper, “Fissures at the Edges: The DMZ as a Proving Ground” in the “Imaged and Imagined North Korean Materialities: Changing Architecture, Cartography, Landscape, and Places” session at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) + Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Annual International Conference in London on August 29, 2019.
Batu Chalise
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences | Electrical & Computer EngineeringBatu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, and his postdoctoral research fellow, Sudarshan Guruacharya, recently had their paper, “On the Product of Complex Gaussians With Applications to Radar,” published in IEE Signal Processing Letters (Volume: 26) on August 28, 2019.
Anthony Dimatteo
College of Arts and SciencesAnthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had the title poem from his forthcoming chapbook, “Fishing for Family,” published in August in the journal Clade Song, which is dedicated to the interaction of humans and wildlife.