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.
Nicholas Bloom
College of Arts and SciencesNicholas D. Bloom, Ph.D., professor of social sciences, gave an interview on the housing crisis to on January 29, 2019. The media channel serves as the international branch of the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.
Terese Coe
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her poem, published on E-Verse Radio on January 14, 2019.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented on the roundtable Poetics and Annotation at the in Chicago, January 3 – 6. The session was organized by the Forum on Poetry and Poetics.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was a speaker at the in Chicago, IL, on January 4, 2019. He spoke on a panel about the importance of cross-disciplinary scholar Katherine Hayles's work in the cross-discipline of science and literature.
Julie Gallanty
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesJulie Gallanty, M.A., adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, was elected to the Council of Certified Volunteer Administrators (CCVA) on December 31, 2018. She will work with the national board to elevate the work and professionalism in the volunteer profession.
Terese Coe
Ms.Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her villanelle, "Demented Carousel," published on December 31, 20018, in , an anthology of villanelles, edited by Marilyn L. Taylor and James P. Roberts.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA Microarrays," published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, on December 13, 2018. The abstract, as presented at the 2018 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, is connected to his research, based on the Gagna/NYIT patent, for the next generation of DNA microarrays, where he is developing prototypes of double-stranded left-handed Z-DNA microarrays. Z-DNA is an alternative form of DNA that plays a major role in regulating human cells. These prototypes, which represent the next generation of DNA microarrays, will be part of an STTR-NIH grant to commercialize them as biomedical research products for sale to scientists to use in a variety of research projects.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, representing the Forum for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on December 13, 2018.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, online at Penn State University Press on December 3, 2018.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, launched the paperback publication of by University Press of Florida at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on November 28, 2018. The event, which included an introduction by Golden and readings by writers Deirdre Coyle, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Briallen Hopper, was live streamed to .