Media Coverage

Jan 02, 2019

School of Health Professions’ Mindy Haar, Ph.D., provided her forecast for one of the top 2019 diet trends in a recent Healthline article. She notes that while individuals will continue to pay attention to gut health and probiotics, the focus will shift from probiotic supplements to foods that balance the intestinal microbiome.

“In 2019, more individuals will seek their probiotics from fermented food and drink such as yogurt, sauerkraut, and kombucha tea,” Haar told Healthline. “Since high-fiber foods act as prebiotics fueling probiotic growth, there are now more reasons to consume fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.”

Similar coverage also appeared on sites for Healthy Habits, New Friars, and Build Muscle Today.

 

Kirk Discusses Ownership Feelings on “The Buyer’s Mind”

Jan 01, 2019

Colleen Kirk, D.P.S., shared her expertise in marketing in a twenty-minute interview for the sales podcast, “The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore.” Host Jeff Shore asked Kirk about her research into psychological ownership, which occurs when shoppers feel that a product is theirs even before making a purchase.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Kirk described how she first discovered the territorial feelings associated with psychological ownership. Kirk also explained her most recent findings: “If you [as a seller] elicit feelings of ownership,” she said, “if someone else comes along and they signal ownership of the product, the consumer is likely to feel infringed.” Kirk also revealed that people with a high degree of narcissism are more likely to feel that others are trespassing on their psychological ownership.

 

Dec 30, 2018

NYIT enrollment trends were cited in a Newsday article (subscription required) discussing the recruitment strategies of private Long Island institutions. As mentioned, NYIT follows a data-driven approach, which focuses on market trends and creating programs that align with those trends, such as the new master’s degree in data science and bioengineering. Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D., vice president for strategic communications and external affairs, and interim vice president for enrollment management, states:

“We look at and analyze the data constantly, and we adopt our tactics to the trends we’re seeing by the month. We were founded on this infusion of technology in everything that we do. Being that it’s in our core, it’s helping us. And this entrepreneurial spirit that we were founded on is helping us move faster.”

 

Dec 27, 2018

Alexander Lopez, OT/L, associate professor of occupational therapy, was featured on Fox 5 NY for his opening of a specialized training facility for special-needs children. Using neuroscientific principles to help children with disabilities learn movement and motor skills, and also encourage cognition and social skills, the facility, aims to meet the needs of those living with autism, Down syndrome, and ADHD.

 

Dec 25, 2018

Deborah Y. Cohn’s article describing her research into gift giving appeared in MarketWatch, Salon, and the Charlottesville, Va., Daily Progress. Her work includes a taxonomy of bad gifts and why they are given.

A marketing professor, Cohn describes unwanted gifts as a problem for both consumers and brands, with billions of dollars in gift returns every year in the U.S. alone.

 

Nizich Comments on AI and ML in Cybersecurity

Dec 21, 2018

In a blog about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) trends in cybersecurity that appeared in ITBusinessEdge, Michael Nizich, director, NYIT Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center, is one of several experts providing commentary. Specifically, Nizich noted that even in this early stage of AI/ML adoption, more solutions are starting to emerge that use some sort of AI to analyze historical logs and to analyze medical device data. 

 

Meyland Noted for Water Quality Advocacy in Newsday

Dec 20, 2018

Groundwater expert, Sarah Meyland, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental technology and sustainability, was mentioned in Newsday for her participation in New York State’s Drinking Water Quality Council. As seen in the article (subscription required), the panel recommended new drinking water standards for three contaminants associated with manufacturing, firefighting foams, and household products, in what would be the most stringent regulations in the nation.

 

Dec 19, 2018

Anatomy research led by Jason Bourke, Ph.D., assistant professor of basic sciences, NYITCOM at A-State, was featured in multiple prominent news outlets, including The Washington Post and PBS. In the coverage, Bourke notes that scientists have long wondered how gigantic, heavily armored dinosaurs that lived in sweltering climates, avoided overheating.

As mentioned by PBS, Bourke's analyses showed that ankylosaur nasal passages likely operated at a level on par with a turbinate-based system. To Bourke, this indicates that ankylosaurs and mammals independently found alternate solutions to the age-old problem of heat. Bourke is the first person to use computational fluid dynamics to model dinosaur nose tissues.

 

Cohn Research Cited in Story About Gift Giving

Dec 18, 2018

The School of Management’s Deborah Y. Cohn is cited in a discussion in Considerable about how to give the best gifts this holiday season. Describing people’s tendencies to give gifts that can be considered selfish, Cohn pointed out that sometimes givers think of our own needs first. “You might give someone something you want them to have, even if they don’t want it,” the article notes, citing examples from Cohn’s research into gift exchanges that irritate recipients rather than pleasing them.

 

NYITCOM at A-State Makes Headlines with Baptist Memorial Health Care Partnership

Dec 14, 2018

New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University (NYITCOM at A-State) recently launched a partnership with Baptist Memorial Health Care that will help to train future doctors. The coverage was featured in regional media, including KAIT Region 8 News, Arkansas Business, Talk Business & Politics, The Daily Memphian, and Memphis Business Journal (subscription required).

As mentioned in the coverage, the agreement identifies up to 25 NYITCOM medical student positions that will be dedicated specifically to students who want to train at Baptist Memorial Health Care facilities during medical school. Students selected to participate in the program will have some designated opportunities through the Baptist Memorial Health Care system during their first and second year, and participants will execute their year three and year four clerkships at one of Baptist’s 22 hospitals. In subsequent years the program can increase up to 50 students in the Baptist-NYITCOM cohort.