President Trump recently unveiled his long-awaited infrastructure plan. It may help fix some roads and bridges, but it would starve public transportation systems of funding, writes Nicholas D. Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of social science, in an op-ed published by CNBC.com.
Under the plan, aging U.S. rail and bus systems would further deteriorate, drivers would face worse traffic, and big cities would become less globally competitive, he writes.
“To compete internationally, we need to offer states more federal funding for mass transit,” Bloom says. “Governors know the specific needs of their urban regions and can craft large-scale, long-term plans for their constituents.”
LaGrandeur Discusses AI in Radio Interview
Mar 28, 2018
Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., of NYIT College of Arts and Sciences is the guest on this week’s Mason Vera Paine Show, broadcast on WGN radio in Chicago and available online. In the 29-minute episode, "Is Artificial Intelligence something we should worry about?" LaGrandeur and Paine have a wide-ranging discussion about how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect the world economy.
Among other questions, LaGrandeur explains how today’s AI differs from the robotics of the past; which workers will have to learn new jobs; which elements of human work will be transformed by AI; and whether smart robots are likely to take over the world.
NYITCOM Match Day Publicized in Local Newspaper
Mar 20, 2018
As featured in The Island Now, on March 16 medical students from NYITCOM discovered where they will spend the next several years completing their residency training at Match Day 2018. Residencies, which typically last three to four years, are one of the last stages in becoming a physician, and medical students often continue on to jobs at their assigned medical centers. Matches by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) are determined by a computerized algorithm and are kept top-secret from both the future doctors and the matching hospitals. In the article, Wolfgang Gilliar, D.O., dean, NYITCOM, congratulates the Class of 2018, and states:
“This class, in my eyes, has gelled and become a cohesive social force that I have not seen in any class before. [They are] No. 1 in TOUCH points for social volunteer activities, and it tells me the commitment they have to humanity and society. They have coalesced as a supportive group because I have a feeling they just know they want to invent the future of medicine.”
Solounias' Horse Evolution Research Featured in Scientific American
Mar 19, 2018
As seen in the Scientific American story, “Long-Lost Horse Toes, Found,” findings from NYITCOM anatomy professor, Nikos Solounias, Ph.D., refute the theory that today’s horses are one-toed, arguing that the animals retained remnants of five toes from an early ancestor. The author writes:
“We can read the whole history of the horse through their feet, and it turns out their constellation of bones can take us back further in time than we ever expected.”
The New York Times Quotes Molnar on Reptile Evolution
Mar 12, 2018
In the New York Timesarticle, “A Newly Discovered Difference Between Alligators and Crocodiles,” Julia Molnar, Ph.D, assistant professor of Anatomy, NYITCOM, comments on Japanese research suggesting that another feature may set the reptiles apart. While it is commonly known that alligators have rounder snouts and crocodiles have slender v-shaped muzzles, the researchers claim that alligators also have shorter humerus bones in their forelimbs and shorter femurs in their hind limbs than crocodiles. Molnar, a peer reviewer of the research, believes these variations could also explain why the animals have different walking and movement patterns.
“This information could help explain differences in their ecology and locomotion, including the strange fact that, while small crocodiles have been observed to bound and gallop, alligators have not,” she states.
Hyde Highlights Efforts to Prepare International Students for Jobs
Mar 08, 2018
Speaking to International Educator magazine (the official magazine of NAFSA: Association of International Educators), John Hyde, Executive Director of Career Services, describes ways NYIT helps international students prepare for the working world.
NYIT, which won NAFSA’s 2016 Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization, reaches out to alumni across the world to help current students find internships or jobs in their home countries. NYIT has also cooperated with other American universities operating in China to organize career fairs for Chinese graduates.
According to Hyde, NYIT funds on-campus jobs for international students in order to give them work experience in the U.S. In addition, NYIT is able, in some cases, to reimburse international students for travel to and from volunteering experiences where they polish their professional skills and make connections.
NYITCOM at A-State D.O. Day Receives Local Media Attention
Mar 07, 2018
As seen on local television affiliates KAIT-8 and WMC Action News, on March 7 more than 150 NYITCOM at A-State students attended informative sessions in honor of “D.O. Day.” This annual day of activism, encouraged by the Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), allows physicians, students, and medical school educators to inform lawmakers on who D.O.s are and why osteopathic medicine is important.
The event, which was held on the A-State campus, featured local speakers from the healthcare community, NYITCOM at A-State faculty and students, and a live broadcast of former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, M.D. In addition to the event held on campus, sixty-one NYITCOM at A-State medical students visited lawmakers and toured the state capitol in Little Rock, while several students also descended upon Washington D.C. to lend their voice to the cause on the national level.
“We let students know it’s not enough just to be a physician anymore,” said Amanda Deel, D.O., assistant dean for Clinical Education, NYITCOM at A-State. “You have to be an advocate for your patient. You have to be an advocate for change, for policy change. And when it involves policy that affects your healthcare, whether access to it, who you can treat, how you can treat them. That needs to have physicians at the table making those decisions.”
Wolf Offers Dietary Advice for Crohn's Disease Patients in Reader's Digest
Mar 05, 2018
In the Reader’s Digest article “The Only Crohn’s Disease Diet These Nutrition Experts Swear By,” School of Health Professions’ Corri Wolf, P.A., lends her dietary expertise to help patients manage inflammation and other disease symptoms. Wolf encourages disease sufferers to include a variety of foods in their diet, including salmon, for the anti-inflammatory effect of its omega-3 fatty acids, as well as eggs, which offer a source of easily digestible, nutrient-dense protein.
“Eggs are an excellent source of folate, iron, zinc, selenium, vitamin D, B vitamins, choline, and lutein," Wolf explains. "People with Crohn's often have low iron stores and an increased need for iron due to blood loss, and that makes eggs a fantastic choice.”
Nowak Shares Insights on Lack of Women CEOs
Mar 01, 2018
For an article in FierceCEO, Radoslaw Nowak, J.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of human resource management, provides his perspective on why women are underrepresented in the top leadership of large companies.
“In general,” says Nowak, “women have been given fewer opportunities to learn on the job. They are offered fewer training opportunities, and they do not get the same developmental assignments as men, or are not mentored, because male executives tend to groom males who are similar to them in terms of characteristics and background.”
Because of these working conditions, Nowak concludes, “After a few years of work, the resume of a woman will look weaker than resumes of her male counterparts, which results in a lack of opportunities to be promoted.”
LaGrandeur Cited on Job Losses Due to AI
Feb 27, 2018
In an article on FierceCIO, Professor Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., of the College of Arts and Sciences describes job losses that have been, or will be, caused by developments in artificial intelligence and automation.
“AI will cause a loss of jobs,” says LaGrandeur. He adds, “Factory workers have already lost many jobs to automation. But more surprising and scary is the fact that so have middle class workers: accountants, for instance, have already seen software like TurboTax automate much of their work.”
Ultimately, LaGrandeur says, “humans cannot keep up with ever-faster computers and robots, and even when they can, machines and digital systems are often more convenient and cheaper.”
LaGrandeur and co-editor James J. Hughes recently published Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work.