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.
Deborah Cohn
School of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing, was a featured speaker at 鈥淚nnovation in the Retail Industry," an event co-sponsored by New York Institute of Technology and the Brazilian Franchising Association (ABF) on January 19, 2018, in New York City. Cohn's presentation was on "The Future of Retail."
Jon Schwarting
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureJon Michael Schwarting, M.Arch., professor of architecture, exhibited drawings from his book, at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy, from January 15 to February 2, 2018, and participated in a day-long seminar on January 25, related to his book.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, contributed a chapter, "Frankenstein, Young and Old: An Interview with Mel Brooks," to the book , edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller, and published by Pegasus Books in January 2018.
\nZiqian (Cecilia) Dong
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesZiqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, had an article titled \n published in Smart Health, Vol. 5-6, Pages 40-50, ISBN 2352-6483, January 2018. The article was co-authored by Yu Wan, a 黑料导航 graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Hui-Yin Hsu
College of Arts & Sciences Teacher EducationHui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, and Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., professor of education and associate dean, published a chapter titled "" in the book Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy. Hsu and Wang also published an article titled "" in the November/December 2017 Issue of Literacy Today, the bimonthly member magazine of the International Literacy Association.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, received a in the December 2017 edition of the Queens Gazette, for his book, The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, served as moderator of a panel with HUD regional administrator Lynne Patton at the New York Housing Conference's annual awards event in December 2017. The panel was also featured in an article, "," in The Real Deal, a New York real estate news journal.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented the paper "'Different from what it is': Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems," and chaired the session "Teaching and Learning in Sylvia Plath Studies and Women's Studies: Community Engagement, Digital Humanities, and Service Learning" at the Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words, and Fragments Conference held at the University of Ulster, in Belfast, UK in November 2017. As part of her paper presentation, Golden also displayed a previously unseen photograph of Sylvia Plath.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, co-authored the book, , published November 2017. It is an advanced reference publication featuring the latest scholarly research on transdisciplinary and transformative assessment practices from primary-level to university-level educational settings.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts & Sciences, Social SciencesNicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, had his work cited in "," an article about the future of so-called micro-units published in the political journal Jacobin in November 2017. In that same month, Bloom was quoted in an article in the Gotham Gazette entitled, "De Blasio's Record on NYCHA."