Babak Beheshti publishes on the Internet of Things

Sep 22, 2016

“Inadequate security will be a critical barrier to large-scale deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) systems and broad customer adoption of IoT applications,” writes School of Engineering and Computing Sciences Associate Dean Babak Beheshti, Ph.D., in “Encyption for the Internet of Things” in (In)Secure Magazine (see p. 49). As the public becomes more exposed to scandals of private data exposed due to ill-designed security features in their IoT devices and products, it will be more difficult for IoT device designers and manufacturers to avoid putting security and privacy as a central and paramount feature of their products.”

 

University Business Publishes Op-Ed by James Simon

Sep 12, 2016

“Whether you are a voter, campaign strategist, college student, or professor, the old lessons of political campaigns haven’t been very useful in this new era of politics and the media,’ writes College of Arts and Sciences Dean James Simon, Ph.D. in a University Business op-ed.  “Call it a Triumph of Technology, where there’s more information bombarding you than ever before.”

Simon’s op-ed explains how NYIT professors are guiding students, helping them become informed, active citizens, and showing them the impact of technological change. “Four years from now, 2016’s technological breakthroughs will likely be as outdated as candidate signs on a voter’s lawn,” says Simon. “Technology has turned traditional campaigning upside down, and the pace of change will only quicken. Get ready for more disruption ahead.”

 

Mark Hampton in Long Island Business News

Sep 07, 2016

“Data analytics provide the tools we need to make informed decisions, to take calculated risks and to engage our various markets in ways that track closely with demographic and technological change,” Vice President for Planning, Analytics and Decision Support Mark Hampton tells Long Island Business News.

 

Martin Gerdes on CNN.com on Cardiac Health and Thyroid Link

Sep 06, 2016

"For proper heart health, it is important to have normal thyroid hormone function, “says Martin Gerdes, Ph.D., in a CNN article on the link between thyroid health and sudden cardiac death. “Thyroid hormone levels directly affect cardiac contraction, relaxation and coronary blood flow."

Gerdes, author of numerous published studies on the link between low thyroid hormones and cardiac health, was asked to comment on another expert’s study. He was quoted extensively on the cardiovascular health risks associated with low thyroid hormone levels.

 

 

Mindy Haar in Rodale’s Organic Life on Breakfast Foods to Avoid

Aug 31, 2016

“Highly sweetened breakfast cereals may appear to be nutritious due to added vitamins and the fact that they’re consumed with calcium-rich milk,” says Mindy Haar, director of program development for Interdisciplinary Health Sciences in an article in Rodale’s Organic Life article on breakfast foods to avoid. “Actually, they’re low in fiber and many people eat a lot more than the serving size listed on the label, meaning you’re getting more sugar than you think.” 

 

Dr. Jerry Balentine in Healthcare Innovation News: Technology and the Human Element in Patient Care

Aug 31, 2016

Combining technology with less contact time per patient visit sets the stage for an ever decreasing human element in patient care, writes Vice President for Medical Affairs and Global Health Jerry Balentine, D.O. in Healthcare Innovation News. Balentine says the human element results in better and more affordable healthcare.

 

Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee in Health Leaders Media and University Business on Physician Shortage

Aug 24, 2016

“We’re doing it in medicine because we have a critical, almost crisis need,” says Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, in a University Business article on public/private partnerships like the one recently established by NYIT and Arkansas State University for a new location of NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine. “That’s an opportunity in the current environment when we need to produce more physicians. This, it seems to me, could be a strategy for all of education and for other professions.”

Ross-Lee also discussed the model in an article in Health Leaders Media.

 

Forbes Publishes Op-ed by Hui-Yin Hsu

Aug 22, 2016

“E-learning portals empower people from less traditional career tracks to join the teaching profession, bringing their unique perspective, skills, and backgrounds into the classroom,” writes School of Education Associate Professor Hui-Yin Hsu in an op-ed on Forbes.com.

E-learning represents the best way to grow and improve the American teaching corps, according to Hsu, adding that more universities should offer online teacher training.

 

Dr. Jerry Balentine writes Newsweek Op-ed on Physicians, Patients, and Terminal Illness

Aug 08, 2016

NYIT Vice President for Medical Affairs and Global Health Jerry Balentine, D.O., says doctors, nurses, and other caregivers are often reluctant to discuss end of life plans. “Death is considered a taboo topic, until after a patient has passed,” Balentine writes in a Newsweek op-ed. “This lack of patient-provider communication frequently leads to degraded care and needless suffering.”

 

Morgan Churchill, Jonathan Geisler in New York Times on Whale Research

Aug 04, 2016

“We can tell a lot about how well this animal fit within whale evolution based on the cranial features, and we can also use that cranial anatomy to determine whether or not it could echolocate,” says Morgan Churchill, Ph.D. in a New York Times article on his published research about a new fossil whale and its ability high-frequency hearing ability related to echolocation.

Associate Professor Jonathan Geisler, who contributed to the research, told the Times: “We had suspicions that they were echolocating but to really get down to a rough estimate of frequency, you really had to look in the inner ear in more detail and that’s where this project comes in.”

The research was also covered by Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Daily Mail.