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.

 

Anne Marie Klotz in US News and World Report on Gap Year

Jul 22, 2016

"In my experience, a gap year is a privilege afforded to more affluent students,” says Dean of Campus Life (Manhattan) Ann Marie Klotz in US News and World Report.  “Many students who work after graduating high school in hopes of saving for college never actually go to college."

 

Farzana Gandhi, Architecture Students on Social Impact Design in International Educator

Jul 20, 2016

NYIT School of Architecture and Design faculty member Farzana Gandhi and architecture students Sean D’Costa and Daniel Hoernes tell International Educator about their project to help app developers in Senegal.

 

Julie Fratrik Endorses Study Abroad at Telemundo.com

Jul 11, 2016

Director of NYIT’s Center for Global Academic Exchange Julie Fratrik advocates studying abroad at Telemundo.com (in Spanish).

 

Guiliano Op-ed in Huffington Post

Jul 05, 2016

While the growth in green buildings is happening all around us, many are unaware of it. “Green affordability has arrived gradually over a few decades and been easy to miss,” writes NYIT President Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., in an op-ed in The Huffington Post.  
According to the U.S. Green Building Council, certified buildings use 25 percent less energy and 11 percent less water. Today, more people in the United States work in solar than either coal or oil and gas.  

Globally, by 2018, the companies that expect to have over 60 percent of their building projects green-certified will more than double from 18 to 37 percent. Much of the growth will occur in developing nations. Universities like NYIT help ensure that the local workforce is properly trained and educated to join the ranks of the energy management elite across all fields. 

And much more will derive from universities, which continue to lead the way.  “We must constantly spur dialog to help find solutions to pressing problems, and well as incubate new ideas and test them,” he says.

 

Mindy Haar in University Business on Virtual Interviews for International Students

Jun 10, 2016

Mindy Haar, director of program development for interdisciplinary health sciences at NYIT School of Health Professions, tells University Business that virtual interviews through the Zoom videoconferencing platform have helped her recruit international students for the online MS in Clinical Nutrition program.

 

Boronico in FIND MBA: Getting a Degree in NYC

Jun 08, 2016

New York, a global capital that’s home to Wall Street, Broadway, and everything in between, is the promised land for many potential MBA students, according to an article on FIND MBA. What are some of the factors that attract them to the location? "We've been very happy to see how large the small business and start-up community is here in the New York metro area," says Boronico, dean of NYIT's School of Management. "We run a number of conferences and seminars that are open to the entrepreneurial community here. Attendance is typically quite high at these events. It's a very well-connected community."

But students are drawn for intangible reasons as well.  "New York is considered the melting pot of the world. There's a tremendous set of opportunities that cut across global citizenship," says Boronico. "Anyone can find a home or opportunity there."