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.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, organized and participated in New York Institute of Technology’s Institutional Support for Research and Creativity (ISRC)-funded international symposium “Project DMZ, 30 Years After” at the renowned Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City, April 20, 2019.
\n\n\nElizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at Hofstra University in the Guthart Cultural Center Theater on April 18, 2019. The event was hosted by Hofstra’s cultural center in collaboration with their disability studies program.
Marcus Carter
ArchitectureMarcus Carter, assistant adjunct professor of architecture, received a 2019 Honor Award for Urban Design from AIA New York on April 15, 2019, for his work as a partner of OBJECT TERRITORIES and a member of the team that created “+StL: Growing an Urban Mosaic,” an urban design project which proposed a greenway and open space design for St. Louis, MO.
\n\nAmin Milani Fard
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Computer ScienceAmin Milani Fard, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science at NYIT-Vancouver, presented a research paper entitled "Relationship Prediction in Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks," which won the best full paper award at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), in Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019. ECIR is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in information retrieval and, similar to ACM SIGIR, is one of the top tier conferences in the field. The acceptance rate for ECIR 2019 was 23% (39/165 for the full papers).
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
School of Architecture & Design ArchitecturePablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, published an essay “Architecture of Information” in the Notas CPAU Magazine on April 12, 2019.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, was awarded a Bronze "IPPY" Award (Independent Publisher Book Award) in the poetry category on April 10, 2019, for her book, Drugstore Blue, published by Five Oaks Press.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was awarded a Research Travel Grant from the Modernist Studies Association on April 9, 2019, for her project, "The Margins of the Lyric: Gwendolyn Brooks Annotating Modernism."
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, as part of the Mysterium Humanum Madness Studies speaker series, on April 9, 2019.
\nRobert Amundsen
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Energy ManagementRobert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, presented “Mobility Options for Transit-Oriented Development” at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, DC, April 3-7, 2019.
\nRanja Roy
College of Arts & Sciences MathRanja Roy, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, published her article, "Quasi-isometries and proper homotopy: The quasi-isometry invariance of Proper 3-realizability of groups," in the journal, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, on April 4, 2019. The article, which was co-authored by colleagues from the University of Seville Mathematics Department, was first published electronically on December 12, 2018.