Media Coverage

Anid Pushes for Gender Equality in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Apr 02, 2018

As seen in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nada Anid, Ph.D., dean, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, joined other influential women in higher education to advocate for gender equality in the academy. Her commentary, which focuses on the need to encourage females to pursue careers and leadership positions in technology, states:

“Men become engineers and women become clerical staff. Even today, just 12 percent of engineers are women, and the number of women in computing has fallen from 35 percent in 1990 to just 26 percent today. That's why it's up to women with power to be the megaphone for those who can't be heard. Right now only 15 percent of all American deans of engineering are women. We need more female faculty members and more female faculty in leadership positions to serve as role models and mentors and encourage women not to accept glass ceilings. At NYIT, the number of female faculty has tripled over the past five years.”

 

Gilliar Comments on Symbolism of White Coat in The Baltimore Sun

Apr 02, 2018

Wolfgang Gilliar, D.O., dean, NYITCOM, was quoted in The Baltimore Sun regarding the history and significance of the physician’s white coat. As Gilliar explains in the article, “The white coats have been around since the 1900s and were first worn at hospitals and then spread to medical schools. Short white coats are common in medical schools, where students are presented the garments in white coat ceremonies at the start of their studies. Some specialties, such as pediatrics and psychiatry, have moved away from the white coat altogether because it is uninviting. In the end the white coat has become more a symbol of tradition than reason.”

 

Reader's Digest Quotes Haar on Breaking "Healthy" Eating Rules

Mar 30, 2018

Nutrition expert, Mindy Haar, Ph.D., was quoted in a Reader’s Digest story discussing the top “diet rules” registered dietitians break. In the article, Haar busts health myths about coconut oil, namely that the oil should be considered a preferred source of fat and eaten daily. She states, “At the end of the day, coconut oil is still a saturated fat. Not to mention highly caloric! I think olive oil, a monounsaturated fat, is a much better choice."

 

Farajidavar Lends Expertise to IEEE Article on Gastroenterological Monitoring Device

Mar 30, 2018

School of Engineering and Computing Sciences’ Aydin Farajidavar, Ph.D., is quoted in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) article on wearable devices that non-invasively monitor electrical activity in the stomach. According to the article, a new wearable device that non-invasively monitors electrical activity in the stomach could help people with digestive problems determine with greater precision whether treatments or diets are working. Farajidavar has completed his own gastroenterological wearable device research to aid in gastroparesis, a condition which results when stomach muscle contractions function abnormally, causing the stomach's contents to empty too slowly, and affects as many as five million Americans.

 

CNBC Publishes Bloom Op-ed

Mar 29, 2018

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.”

 

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 Times article, “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.