Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Rozina Vavetsi
College of Arts and SciencesRozina Vavetsi, M.SC., associate professor and chair of the Department of Digital Art and Design, received two on May 25, 2018, for her posters 鈥淏reaking into the Creative Market鈥� and 鈥淧OP! 2018 Academic Survey,鈥� and had her work featured at the Graphic USA 2018 online and print publications.
Tony Slieman
College of Osteopathic Medicine Basic Sciences Biomedical Sciences-Jonesboro Abstract submitted to ETS AP biology conferenceSusana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, has had her poetry published spring semester 2018 in Calyx, 2 Bridges Review, Muse, Dash, Inscape, Rhino, and other literary journals.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, was selected as the 2018 Sherman Family Emerging Scholar by The Korea Society in New York City. Kim will present a lecture on his ongoing research on the Korean Demilitarized Zone as part of the Sherman Family Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, which encourages new American thought leadership on Korea. The lecture will be held at the Korea Society in September 2018, prior to its annual gala. The competition is open to emerging scholars from academe, think tanks, research, or analysis and from across disciplines. The award is named for the Sherman family and Philip Sherman, who served as Citi representative in Korea in Korea in the 1970s.
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School of Management MarketingColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., assistant professor of marketing, has published a book chapter entitled "Consumer Psychological Ownership of Digital Technology" in the book, . The book is edited by Joann Peck and Suzanne Shu and was published by Springer on May 2, 2018.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, gave the closing keynote speech at Creative Tech Week (CTW) at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway on May 11, 2018. Also as part of CTW, she gave a demonstration at the Hive of the VR Endanger Game series that was incubated on an 黑料导航 Institutional Support for Research and Creativity (ISRC) grant.
Jeffrey Feinsilver
LibraryJeffrey Feinsilver, M.L.S., M.B.A., coordinator of library instruction and user services, created and moderated the panel, 鈥淚 Know It When I See It鈥�: Navigating Issues of Sex and Sexuality," at the on May 3, 2018 in Melville, N.Y.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, published an article, in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, a peer-reviewed publication, in May 2018. Gagna and his co-authors are the first group to show actual histopathological data to support the idea that Viagra and other similar drugs may cause skin cancer in men who use this drug.
Julia Molnar
College of Osteopathic Medicine Basic Sciences AnatomyJulia Molnar, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy, co-authored a book, , published by CRC Press on April 29, 2018. The other authors are R. Diogo, J. M. Ziermann, and N. Siomava of Howard University and V. Abdala of UNT-CONICET, Argentina.
Kevin LaGrandeur
Academic Affairs College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, co-organized the Posthuman Ethics Global Symposium on April 27-28, 2018 in New York City. LaGrandeur also chaired a number of panels and presented his paper, "Emerging Technology, Art and the Posthuman."