Media Coverage
Geisler Discusses Feeding Evolution of Marine Mammals with Discovery of New Dolphin Species
Aug 23, 2017
Several publications have reported on research co-authored by Jonathan Geisler, Ph.D., chair of the Anatomy department at NYITCOM. Reporting on the team’s discovery of a new species of ancient dolphin, named Inermorostrum xenops, these articles, including those in Daily Mail and Science Daily, discuss how the dolphin lived during the same period as Coronodon havensteini, a species of ancient filter-feeding whale recently announced by NYITCOM's Anatomy department. Geisler states the discoveries are an important step in understanding why the South Carolina Coast provides unique insights into cetacean evolution.
“Coronodon, a filter feeder whale, and Inermorostrum, a suction feeding dolphin, may well have fed on the same prey. Their feeding behaviors not only help us understand their vastly different body sizes, but also shed light on the ecology of habitats that led to Charleston's present-day fossil riches.”
Perbellini Featured in LIBN's "Who's Who in Women in Professional Services"
Aug 22, 2017
Long Island Business News has featured Maria Perbellini, dean of NYIT’s School of Architecture and Design, in its special section, “Who’s Who in Women in Professional Services” (subscription required).
This section celebrates Long Island’s influential women across various industries and the ways in which their organizations are addressing industry trends and challenges to ensure a successful future within their fields. As noted in the article, The NYIT School of Architecture and Design is celebrating several recent initiatives aimed at preparing students for leadership both in the profession and in the community, including the expansion of the interior design program to the NYIT Manhattan campus, and plans to advance the school’s degree offerings with a new Master of Architecture program.
NYIT-Vancouver Programs Featured in the Georgia Straight
Aug 17, 2017
NYIT-Vancouver’s academic programs and their connection to local industry needs are the subject of a story in the Georgia Straight, an urban weekly distributed across Metro Vancouver.
Campus Dean Irene Young describes the growth of NYIT’s graduate programs from its first master’s degree, in business administration, to its newest degree in instructional technology and its efforts to offer degrees in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. In the past, says Young, a master’s degree was a step on the path toward an academic career. “But the workplace is now requiring and needing more people with advanced-level degrees,” she said. “So we’re here to address that need.”
White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students to NYITCOM at A-State, Receives Media Attention
Aug 11, 2017
As seen in a news segment on KAIT-8, NYITCOM at A-State recently welcomed 123 new medical students to its class of 2021. As 800 attendees packed the Fowler Center at A-State, Shane Speights, site dean of NYITCOM at A-State, greeted students and instilled them with a sense of purpose.
“This is an amazing opportunity,” said Speights. “Not only for the students but for this region and for Jonesboro, and also the profession itself. What we’ve done here is bring in an entirely new group of citizens into our community who will become physicians and hopefully train in our community and in our region and provide care for the needy in our area.”
Zhang Cancer Research Highlighted in InnovateLI
Aug 09, 2017
Dong Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor, Biomedical Sciences, NYITCOM, was recently featured in the InnovateLI article, “NYIT: ‘Lethal Interactions’ Could Stop Tough Cancers”. The story discusses Zhang's latest cancer research, which was published in a July issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and suggests that a drug producing a synthetic lethal interaction could halt the proliferation of persistent ALT cancers. Chemotherapy, known to injure healthy cells and cause unpleasant side effects such as hair loss and vomiting, is currently the only available treatment for these cancers.
As stated in the article,“Potentially, the interactions – in the form of pharmaceuticals that deactivate certain mutated genes in human cells – could prove to be a more-effective and less-toxic alternative to traditional chemotherapy treatments, which are known to injure healthy cells and cause a host of unpleasant side effects.”
As Seen on KAIT-8: Jonesboro Medical Students Master Telemedicine
Aug 09, 2017
As featured in a television segment on the Jonesboro news station KAIT-8, medical students at NYITCOM at A-State are learning the techniques and benefits to using telemedicine to treat patients in rural areas. Medical students from the Jonesboro campus appeared on-camera to demonstrate the technology, which is a key component of medical education that will prepare them to treat and diagnose future patients from nearly any location.
From one screen to another, second-year student doctors Michelle Tedrowe, Shil Punatar, and Mirsha Stiven showed how life-sized screens, microphones, and high-tech medical instruments give doctors numerous ways to diagnose a patient. These tools provide valuable benefits to the field of medicine according to their teacher, Darren Sommer, D.O., assistant professor of Clinical Medicine, NYITCOM at A-State.
“As we become more specialized and as family practice and primary care doctors become more focused on smaller populations, the need to expand access to care for specialty services and new services in rural under-served communities becomes more important,” said Sommer.
NYITCOM at A-State Benefits from Generous Whole Body Donations
Aug 04, 2017
Dosha Cummins, associate professor and vice department chair of Basic Sciences at the NYITCOM campus at A-State, was recently interviewed by KAIT-8 regarding eighteen whole body donations that were generously gifted to NYITCOM at A-State.
The education of physicians is dependent on the generous act of whole body donation, which not only enables students to become astute doctors, but also compassionate medical professionals. Following the tradition carried out by NYITCOM Long Island students, students at the Jonesboro campus plan to honor donors at a ceremony later this school year. "This is such a key component of medical education and it’s something that we have a great amount of reverence and respect for," Cummins said. "We have a great team of anatomists that shepherd this, and we are looking forward to having opportunities for individuals in the region to contribute to part of this process."
VIP Program Featured in Education Life Section of The New York Times
Aug 03, 2017
“One spring morning on the North Shore of Long Island, dozens of eager parents, some from as far away as Illinois, meandered around the tree-lined campus of New York Institute of Technology, which houses the Vocational Independence Program, a three-year residential program with about 45 students,” writes a reporter in attendance at VIP’s open house in The New York Times.
The article continues to describe the event, including how Paul Cavanagh, the senior director, “told parents about the 3:1 student-to-staff ratio, the extensive job training (traditional college classes, internships at nearby hotels and restaurants) and life skills classes (banking, budgeting, cooking, apartment living).”
The full article describes additional programs and quotes various education professionals across the country, in addition to students and teachers participating in these programs, among others.
Martinez Tells Psychology Today Why STEAM Education is Critical to Developmental Learning
Aug 03, 2017
A newly published book authored by Jim Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor of Instructional Technology in the NYIT School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education, was recently featured in Psychology Today. The book, titled The Search for Method in STEAM Education, offers important directions for educators to be successful and offer benefit to students and society, beginning with adding the arts (an “A”) to STEM, making it STEAM education. As noted in the article, Martinez, an expert in experiential learning and in creating technology-rich learning environments, suggests educators not add the arts as a subject, but instead transform the way teaching and learning are done, looking beyond the products of learning (information and skills) alone, and focusing on the environments people need in order to learn and the process of creating them.
“At a time when educators, educational researchers, and policymakers are trying to figure out how to use traditional knowledge acquisition methods of education to create STEAM education, I am concerned with transforming learning environments into ones that are developmental and interdisciplinary,” says Martinez. “In writing this book, my approach has been more creative than academic, and the data I offer is in the dialogues and stories. The voices of educational innovators who are creating and collaborating beyond the disciplinary boundaries of the institutions they work for will be prominent. I find that conversations and stories are a great way to learn developmentally.”