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.
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, delivered a presentation, "Using Virtual Reality to Illustrate Sense of Place for Student Personal Narratives," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 115th Annual Conference, November 10-12, 2017, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences, EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was recently awarded an NEH grant to participate in an Object Lessons writer's workshop to teach academics—particularly those whose subject is technology—how to write for the popular press. The workshop was held November 7–8, 2017, in Phoenix, AZ.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, participated in an invited panel, "," at the 40th Annual Fulbright Conference held on November 5, 2017, in Washington, DC.
Sabina Khantimirova
Global Academic Programs English Language InstituteSabina Khantimirova, M.A., learning specialist with the English Language Institute, made a presentation entitled "Developing Interactive Activities for Hybrid, Flipped, or Non-Traditional Online Instruction" at the
Nabi Sertac Artan
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Electrical and Computer EngineeringN. Sertac Artan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored a chapter "Security, Trust, and Privacy for Cloud Computing in Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems," in the book Data Security in Cloud Computing, with Wenjia Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science, and Jonathan Voris, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, moderated the panel, "MIL Revolutionizing the Learning Process" at UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica on October 26, 2017. The theme of the conference was "Media and Information Literacy in Critical Times: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Information Environments." The session explored the potential and capacity of MIL to create new ways of learning in various learning environments, online and offline, as well as the challenges faced.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented "Unprinted Pages: Recovering Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Play" with her 黑料导航 students, Rebekah Geevarghese and Uzma Patel, at Fordham University's Transnational Print Culture Conference in October 2017. The presentation addressed the Irish writer Edna O'Brien's unpublished drafts of what was probably a screenplay about the American poet Sylvia Plath. Thanks to a Student-Faculty Collaboration Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, the students spent the summer creating a digital project interpreting these materials, working from scans of O'Brien's manuscripts and typescripts housed in Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Richard Pizer
College of Arts and Sciences, Life SciencesRichard Pizer, Ph.D., professor of life sciences, had a peer-reviewed research paper, "Boron Acid Complexation Reactions with Polyols and A-Hydroxy Carboxylic Acids: Equilibria, Reaction Mechanisms, Saccharide Recognition" published by Elsevier's ScienceDirect in October 2017.
Fang Li
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, Mechanical EngineeringFang Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, in partnership with X-wave Innovations, Inc (XII), recently received a $125,000 to develop a passive, wireless, high-temperature embedded sensor system that is capable of providing high-bandwidth measurements of temperature, pressure, and strain on both rotating and non-rotating propulsion engine components. This system will provide a highly flexible instrumentation solution to monitor remote or inaccessible measurement locations for NASA's rocket propulsion test facilities.
Sarah Meyland
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesSarah Meyland, J.D., associate professor of environmental technology and sustainability, was appointed to the New York State Drinking Water Quality Council by Governor Cuomo. The Council is charged with advising New York State and the involved agencies (DOH and DEC) on such issues as drinking water standards for chemicals of concern that are not regulated at the federal level.