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.
Babak Beheshti
College of Engineering & Computing SciencesBabak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., interim dean of College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, delivered an invited talk titled “A Survey of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms” at the IEEE Tencon Conference, October 28 - November 1, in Jeju, Korea.
David Nadler
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Environmental Technology & SustainabilityDavid Nadler, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Technology and Sustainability, participated in a panel presentation at the New York City Town+Gown conference "Pushing the Recycling Envelope: Construction and Demolition Waste," sponsored by the NYC Department of Design and Construction on October 30, 2018. Speaking to a consortium of university and government agencies, his presentation, "Where's the Data?", addressed the challenges and opportunities of data management for construction and demolition waste tracking in the City of New York.
Michael Urmeneta
Planning, Analytics & Decision Support Analytics & Business IntelligenceMichael Urmeneta, M.S., director of analytics and business intelligence, served on an expert panel discussing the challenges and opportunities to successful IT and IR collaboration at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, held October 30 – November 2, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, delivered her lecture, “Psychiatric Disability and the Second Wave: The Mad Writing of Shulamith Firestone and Kate Millett,” at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY on October 24, 2018. The event, which included a reception to celebrate the publication of her second book, Literatures of Madness, was co-sponsored by the CUNY Doctoral Program in Music, the Futures Initiative, the CUNY Disability Scholars, and CUNY's Master's Program in Disability Studies.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published an article, "Feminist Digital Pedagogy" in Virginia Woolf Miscellany 93 (Spring/Summer 2018): 42-43. The piece addresses a workshop Golden led for the Jane Marcus Feminist University Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center in the fall of 2016, and is part of a segment devoted to the event.
Sheldon Fields
School of Health Professions NursingSheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, professor of nursing, co-authored an article,\n"Building effective multilevel HIV prevention partnerships with\n"Black men who have sex with men: experience from HPTN 073, a pre-exposure prophylaxis study in three US cities," published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society on October 21, 2018.
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College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Energy ManagementRobert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the Department of Energy Management, was inducted into the AEE Energy Managers Hall of Fame at the World Energy Engineering Congress, October 17-19, 2018, in Charlotte, NC. This is the highest honor bestowed by the Association of Energy Engineers, which recognizes “outstanding leaders in the energy industry who over their lifetimes have made significant contributions in the field of energy management.”
Kate E. O'Hara
Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented her paper, “Engaging College Students ‘Schooled’ in a Standardized, Anti-Intellectual K-12 Education System,” at the Conference on Critical Pedagogy and Paulo Freire, held October 18-19 at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. The international conference celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the original release of Freire’s seminal book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Marcella Del Signore
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureMarcella Del Signore, associate professor of architecture, co-edited two books, Re-Calibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity—Paper Proceedings and Re-Calibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity—Projects Catalog, with Phillip Anzalone and Andrew John Wit. Both books were published and released during the 2018 ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) Conference in Mexico City, October 18-20, 2018, where Del Signore served as technical co-chair. The books explore boundaries and emerging opportunities for the implementation of computational applied research in architecture and design. Del Signore is currently a member of the ACADIA Board of Directors.
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College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Mechanical EngineeringMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was interviewed for an article, "Understanding Concussion and Protection," by Lissa Oliver, published in \nTrainer Magazine on October 16, 2018. Toma discusses his study on concussions and jockey helmet safety, conducted in partnership with Hallie Zwibel, D.O., assistant professor of family medicine.
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