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 & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry,” for Koh-Ed Talks, at École Jeannine Manuel, Paris, France, on October 5, 2023.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor in the psychology and counseling department, shared her expert knowledge concerning bullying in schools in a recently published article, "Do schools do enough to prevent bullying?" on the Care.com website on August 31, 2023.
Yusui Chen
PhysicsYusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled "Non-Markovian open quantum dynamics in squeezed environments: Coherent-state unraveling, in Physical Review A on July 19, 2023. The article studies the precise dynamics of a quantum optical cavity interacting with an environment prepared in a squeezed state.
\n\nJessica Hautsch
College of Arts and Sciences, HumanitiesJessica Hautsch, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor of humanities, published a book on July 13, 2023, titled Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities: Thinking Through Feels. It discusses a novel way of analyzing fan thinking and creation, focusing on embodied, emotional, and communal cognitive systems. The book has been published as part of the Palgrave Fan Studies imprint, a book series specializing in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
\n\nJohn Misak
CAS/HumanitiesJohn Misak, M.A., D.A., associate professor of humanities, was awarded The Ellen Nold Award on July 5, 2023, presented annually for an article or book chapter in computers and composition studies that contributes to the field in innovative, impactful ways, in the spirit of Nold’s original 1975 CCC article “Fear and Trembling: A Humanist Approaches the Computer."
Nicole Calma-Roddin
College of Arts and SciencesNicole Calma-Roddin, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral sciences, Kevin Park, M.F.A., assistant professor of digital arts and design, and Jacqueline Keighron, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological and chemical sciences, have published an article, "Exploring the Structure of Proteins and Other Biomolecules with a VR Museum: Lessons in Classroom Integration," in the Journal of Chemical Education on June 8, 2023. The article describes an interactive, web-based virtual reality (VR) experience that was created to complement the BIOL 340 lab and includes an analysis of student engagement. Results showed that students engaged with and enjoyed the activity, and suggest that the activity increased student understanding.
Claude Gagna
CAS, Biological & Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a response to "The Promise of Peptide Nucleic Acids," an article written about gene therapy in the April 3, 2023 edition of Chemical and Engineering News, a publication of the American Chemical Society, in the Letters to the Editor, Reactions Section. His letter to the editor, entitled "Peptide nucleic acids targeting noncanonical DNA and RNA," published on June 4, 2023, focuses on how researchers need to go beyond Watson and Crick's classic canonical double-stranded structure of B-DNA, and focus on alternative (i.e., Z-DNA, Z-RNA) and multistranded DNA and RNA (i.e., triplex DNA and quadruplex DNA) molecules in order to fully achieve the promise of peptide nucleic acid therapeutics. Peptide-based drugs can be used to treat pathologies.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented “‘Editing Sylvia Plath at 90” at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, Mass., on May 27, 2023. She organized and spoke on a panel, "Sylvia Plath at 90," which featured leading scholars including Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., New York Tech associate dean and professor of English, who presented “Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction."
John Misak
CAS/HumanitiesJohn Misak, M.A., D.A., associate professor of humanities, held a session on 26 May, 2023,“Don’t Fear the ReaperGPT: Chatbots Will Enhance College Composition Papers, Not End Them."A presentation on using ChatGPT and other AI tools to improve the student experience in college humanities courses and prepare them to interact with AI technology in their future careers.
Nicole Calma-Roddin
College of Arts and SciencesNicole Calma-Roddin, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral sciences, presented a poster titled "Students Have Fun and Learn Using a Text-Only Narrative Game" at the Teaching Institute of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, D.C., on May 25, 2023.