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 EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, gave a talk, "Rewriting the Lyric:\nSylvia Plath Annotating James Joyce," at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House on February 1, 2019. She was hosted by the James Joyce Society.
Kapil Bajaj
College of Osteopathic Medicine Dean's Office-JonesboroKapil Bajaj, MCTP, CPHIMS, director of academic and research technology at NYITCOM at A-State, graduated from the "Leading Information Technology in Academic Medicine" leadership program, hosted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, on February 1, 2019.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, appeared as part of the NYIT Week on The Academic Minute on January 29, 2019, speaking on the topic "Architecture's Impact on Changing Nation-State Borders." In particular, Kim noted that by deconstructing the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) through architectural methods, architects and designers can challenge long-held assumptions and preconceived views to better understand the "other" beyond the border.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts and SciencesNicholas D. Bloom, Ph.D., professor of social sciences, gave an interview on the housing crisis to TRT World on January 29, 2019. The media channel serves as the international branch of the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.
Terese Coe
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her poem, "Youth Becoming," published on E-Verse Radio on January 14, 2019.
David Nadler
NYITDavid Nadler, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Technology and Sustainability, presented two posters at the annual National Council for Science and the Environment conference in Washington, DC on January 8, 2019. "Ultrasonic technology in wastewater treatment" discussed how we can, on a small scale, measure changes in important wastewater treatment parameters, including nitrate concentrations, by subjecting the effluent to bubbles induced by high-frequency pressure (sound) waves. "A survey of one-day environmental communication through Twitter," showed that the use of shared hashtags (#environment, #cleanwater, and #cleanair) across a social media platform does not guarantee direct communication. Current data collection for a more detailed environmental communication study already has over twenty-thousand records.
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.