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.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, published an article, in SKINmed, a peer-reviewed publication, on July 1, 2018. Gagna is examining the presence of fungal organisms (i.e., dermatophytes) that have infiltrated human skin, and trying to determine how their genomes (i.e., DNA, RNA) changes during the dermatophytes life cycle in human skin. Understanding the location and amounts of different types of nucleic acids in the fungal organisms will allow for the development of drugs to fight this skin disorder.
Anthony Dimatteo
College of Arts SciencesAnthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had three poems published on the theme of the power of words and the metaphor of translation in the international journal on June 29, 2018.
Melda Yildiz
College of Arts & Sciences Masters Instructional TechnologyMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, co-presented a poster, at ISTE 2018, June 24, in Chicago, Ill. Her co-presenters included NYIT MSIT graduate Juliet Boone, Fitsum Boone, and Daeon Lynch.
\nJohn Hanc
John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, was honored at this year's Press Club of Long Island Media Award ceremony, held on June 7, 2018. Hanc won First Place—Humor Narrative for a column about how he and the NYC Marathon had changed since he last ran the race 30 years ago; Second Place—Lifestyle Feature Narrative for about a local Boy Scout who discovered and restored an overgrown 18th century family cemetery; and Second Place—Profile Narrative for the story of Salvatore Cillis, who recounted his war experiences in a series of illustrated letters that were displayed at the New York Historical Society. All of the articles were published in Newsday, where Hanc is a contributing writer.
Carol Dahir
College of Arts & Sciences Masters School CounselingCarol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, co-authored a paper, on June 1, 2018.
\n\n\n\n\nSusana 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.
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.
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.
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."
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Relationship between nucleic acid structures and sequences on the expression of terminal differentiation (i.e., denucleation): alternative cell death pathway," published online in The FASEB Journal on April 27, 2018. The abstract, presented at the 2018 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, summarizes Gagna's examination of the relationship between exotic DNA and RNA structures (e.g., Z-DNA, triplex DNA, and quadruplex DNA) in terminal differentiation (denucleation), a type of cell death that helps maintain normal physiological systems in humans. Understanding how these exotic forms of DNA regulate denucleation in humans may help one day to treat pathologies, such as cancer.