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.
Sheldon Fields
School of Health Professions NursingSheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, professor of nursing, co-authored an article, "Incidence and Correlates of STIs among Black Men who have Sex with Men Participating in the HPTN 073 PrEP Study," published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on January 7, 2019.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented on the roundtable Poetics and Annotation at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, January 3 – 6. The session was organized by the Forum on Poetry and Poetics.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was a speaker at the Modern Language Association's 2019 conference in Chicago, IL, on January 4, 2019. He spoke on a panel about the importance of cross-disciplinary scholar Katherine Hayles's work in the cross-discipline of science and literature.
Bisrat Kinfemichael
School of Management EconomicsBisrat Kinfemichael, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics, published a paper, "Convergence of labor productivity across the US states," in the January 2019 edition of Economic Modelling. The paper examines sectoral unconditional convergence in labor productivity in the United States for the period of 1987–2015. The results demonstrate a general slowing down in the rate of convergence of labor productivity in the latter years of this period. The sectoral analysis indicates that manufacturing was the primary driver of convergence during the 1987–1997 period, which had the highest rate of convergence; but the role of this sector has since diminished due to a number of factors that may have contributed to the rise in the labor productivity differential among the states.
Julie Gallanty
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesJulie Gallanty, M.A., adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, was elected to the Council of Certified Volunteer Administrators (CCVA) on December 31, 2018. She will work with the national board to elevate the work and professionalism in the volunteer profession.
Terese Coe
Ms.Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her villanelle, "Demented Carousel," published on December 31, 20018, in Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, an anthology of villanelles, edited by Marilyn L. Taylor and James P. Roberts.
Reza Khalaj Amineh
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Electrical & Computer EngineeringReza K. Amineh, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, in collaboration with Maryam Ravan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and two NYIT graduate students, Hailun Wu and Aakarsha Kasturo, published a journal article titled "Three-dimensional holographic imaging using data collected over cylindrical apertures," in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, on December 28, 2018. In this paper, they proposed holographic imaging techniques for volumetric inspection of non-metallic objects. In addition, Amineh also had two patents granted in November 2018, which have been filed with Halliburton Co.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA Microarrays," published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, on December 13, 2018. The abstract, as presented at the 2018 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, is connected to his research, based on the Gagna/NYIT patent, for the next generation of DNA microarrays, where he is developing prototypes of double-stranded left-handed Z-DNA microarrays. Z-DNA is an alternative form of DNA that plays a major role in regulating human cells. These prototypes, which represent the next generation of DNA microarrays, will be part of an STTR-NIH grant to commercialize them as biomedical research products for sale to scientists to use in a variety of research projects.
Marcella Del Signore
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureMarcella Del Signore,, associate professor of architecture, co-authored a book chapter on technological/urban/social resilience, titled "Learning from New Orleans: Social Resilience for Urban Ecosystems," featured in Architecture and Resilience - Interdisciplinary Dialogues, published by Routledge on December 13, 2018. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science, and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies, and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, representing the Forum for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on December 13, 2018.