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.
Lisa Sparacino
School of Health Professions NursingMercy Joseph, Ph.D., ANP-BC, RN, assistant professor of nursing, had her article, “Faith Blind Care: How Faith Based Leaders Cared for Community Dwelling Older Adults in a Natural Disaster,” in the World Journal of Advance Healthcare Research, on July 22, 2018.
Nada Anid
Strategic Communications & External AffairsNada Anid, Ph.D., vice president of strategic communications and external affairs, called for increases in manufacturing funding for education and workforce training programs to ensure U.S. competitiveness in the global market in an article titled "The ChE in Context: Educating the Future Advanced Manufacturing Workforce" in CEP Magazine on July 19, 2018. The article is Anid's second contribution as chair of the Public Affairs and Information Committee (PAIC) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), a 60,000-member global organization. Previously, in January 2018, she highlighted the importance of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus as an engineering and public policy priority in the aftermath of natural disasters like Hurricane Maria in an article titled "The ChE in Context: The food-Energy-Water Nexus: An Engineering and Public Policy Priority."
NAOMI FRANGOS
FemaleNaomi Frangos, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, presented results from her ISRC grant "Fabrication Innovation in Intuitive Design" in her paper “Modular Variable Flexible Formwork Design” at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) 59th Annual Symposium on “Creativity in Structural Design,” held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA. July 16-19, 2018. Her paper features cast plaster and concrete prototypes testing modular frames and dynamic matter (sand) to generate variable forms. Both abstract and full paper were accepted in two rounds of reviews, with the abstract published in the Symposium Proceedings, edited by Sigrid Adriaenssens and Caitlin Mueller.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was featured in an article, “The Ethics Behind Artificial Intelligence: A Dialogue with the CIO of Insight Corporation," written by Mike Guggemos and published on Insight.com on July 16, 2018. The article took the format of a joint interview with LaGrandeur and Mike Guggemos, CIO of Insight, an international high tech consulting company.
Milan Toma
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences Mechanical EngineeringMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, presented his poster titled, 'Mitral Valve Regurgitation Treatment with an Intravalvular Spacer: Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis" at the 8th World Congress of Biomechanics, held July 8-12, 2018, in Ireland. Toma was the first author of the study, which was conducted in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was the invited keynote speaker for a symposium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday, July 12. His talk, "Artificial Intelligence: Potential and Risk," focused on the future challenges and opportunities presented by AI for Latin American economies and societies. LaGrandeur was invited by the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and its sponsored Latin American think-tank, the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL). Various government ministries from Argentina were also involved with the symposium.
Joanne Grasso
College of Arts & Sciences Social SciencesJoanne S. Grasso, D.A., adjunct associate professor in social sciences, published her second book, George Washington's 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island, on July 9, 2018. Grasso is scheduled to follow up the publication with multiple public book talks in New York City and Long Island.
John Hanc
College of Arts & Sciences Communication ArtsJohn Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, had his article, "Athletic and autistic, Long Island man is outrunning expectations," published as the cover story of the LI Life section of Newsday, on July 7, 2018. The story focuses on a severely autistic 28-year-old who happens to be an extremely talented distance runner, and how two top local runners have devoted their time and energies to helping him.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, published an article, "Tinea (Pityriasis) Obscurans: Don't Ignore the Spore!," in SKINmed, a peer-reviewed publication, on July 1, 2018. Gagna is examining the presence of fungal organisms (i.e., dermatophytes) that have infiltrated human skin, and trying to determine how their genomes (i.e., DNA, RNA) changes during the dermatophytes life cycle in human skin. Understanding the location and amounts of different types of nucleic acids in the fungal organisms will allow for the development of drugs to fight this skin disorder.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published “On Manuscripts: Virginia Woolf and Archives” in Virginia Woolf and the World of Books, edited by \nNicola Wilson and Claire Battershill, and published by Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press on June 29, 2018.