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.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, was selected as the 2018 Sherman Family Emerging Scholar by The Korea Society in New York City. Kim will present a lecture on his ongoing research on the Korean Demilitarized Zone as part of the Sherman Family Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, which encourages new American thought leadership on Korea. The lecture will be held at the Korea Society in September 2018, prior to its annual gala. The competition is open to emerging scholars from academe, think tanks, research, or analysis and from across disciplines. The award is named for the Sherman family and Philip Sherman, who served as Citi representative in Korea in Korea in the 1970s.
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School of Management MarketingColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., assistant professor of marketing, has published a book chapter entitled "Consumer Psychological Ownership of Digital Technology" in the book, Psychological Ownership and Consumer Behavior. The book is edited by Joann Peck and Suzanne Shu and was published by Springer on May 2, 2018.
Lynn Rogoff
Arts & SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, gave the closing keynote speech at Creative Tech Week (CTW) at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway on May 11, 2018. Also as part of CTW, she gave a demonstration at the Hive of the VR Endanger Game series that was incubated on an NYIT Institutional Support for Research and Creativity (ISRC) grant.
Jeffrey Feinsilver
LibraryJeffrey Feinsilver, M.L.S., M.B.A., coordinator of library instruction and user services, created and moderated the panel, “I Know It When I See It”: Navigating Issues of Sex and Sexuality," at the 43rd Annual Long Island Library Conference on May 3, 2018 in Melville, N.Y.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, published an article, "How sildenafil (Viagra®) may cause melanoma: a histopathologic study providing a potential physiological/etiopathological mechanism," in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, a peer-reviewed publication, in May 2018. Gagna and his co-authors are the first group to show actual histopathological data to support the idea that Viagra and other similar drugs may cause skin cancer in men who use this drug.
Julia Molnar
College of Osteopathic Medicine Basic Sciences AnatomyJulia Molnar, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy, co-authored a book, Muscles of Chordates: Development, Homologies, and Evolution, published by CRC Press on April 29, 2018. The other authors are R. Diogo, J. M. Ziermann, and N. Siomava of Howard University and V. Abdala of UNT-CONICET, Argentina.
Kevin LaGrandeur
Academic Affairs College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, co-organized the Posthuman Ethics Global Symposium on April 27-28, 2018 in New York City. LaGrandeur also chaired a number of panels and presented his paper, "Emerging Technology, Art and the Posthuman."
Petra Dilling
School of BusinessPetra F.A. Dilling, Ph.D., associate professor of management and Peter Harris, professor of accounting, management, and finance, published an article, "Reporting on long-term value creation by Canadian companies: A longitudinal assessment," in the highly-rated Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact Factor: 5.715). The article was published online on April 27, 2018.
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College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Relationship between nucleic acid structures and sequences on the expression of terminal differentiation (i.e., denucleation): alternative cell death pathway," published online in The FASEB Journal on April 27, 2018. The abstract, presented at the 2018 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, summarizes Gagna's examination of the relationship between exotic DNA and RNA structures (e.g., Z-DNA, triplex DNA, and quadruplex DNA) in terminal differentiation (denucleation), a type of cell death that helps maintain normal physiological systems in humans. Understanding how these exotic forms of DNA regulate denucleation in humans may help one day to treat pathologies, such as cancer.
Adrienne McNally
Academic Affairs International & Experiential EducationAdrienne McNally, M.S., director of experiential education, had her paper, "Enhancing Civic, Electoral, and Political Engagement Through International Student Inclusion", published on April 27, 2018 in the eJournal of Public Affairs, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access journal published by Missouri State University and affiliated with the American Democracy Project. McNally's article discusses how international students have created and strengthened NYIT initiatives designed to serve the public good and explores how these initiatives connect with A Crucible Moment, the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement’s 2012 call to action to “reclaim higher education’s civic mission.