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.
Beth Elenko
School of Health ProfessionsBeth Elenko, Ph.D., associate professor of occupational therapy, shares her insights on the importance of playtime, in HealthCentral's guide , published on January 9, 2023.
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cas/humJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk, "The Modernist Super-Individual: Personality, Celebrity, Brand-Names," for Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, on January 5, 2023. The talk focused on changes to the idea of personhood during the late 18th/early 19th centuries, including discussions of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eva Tanguay, Babe Ruth, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Harry Houdini, and Superman.
\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published the chapter, 鈥淟yric 鈥楿npunctuation鈥�: W. S. Merwin鈥檚 Early New Yorker Correspondence,鈥� in the collection , edited by Cheri Colby Langdell and published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 2, 2023.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture and Design, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his book, , published by jeongye-c-publishers, a recognized architecture and design publisher based in Seoul, Korea. The book explores how mapping can produce knowledge that reframes contested territories into productive spaces. Its research engages the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to illustrate how 鈥淗wa-Chaeng鈥�-informed mapping can produce knowledge that can reframe contentious territories as synergistic productive spaces. The book was developed based on one of Kim鈥檚 黑料导航's ISRC Grants and was published as a bilingual (English and Korean) book in December 2022.
Jennifer Griffiths
College of Arts and SciencesJennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a new monograph, , with the University Press of Mississippi's Cultures of Childhood series, on December 16, 2022. The book focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed within the scope of a sociological 鈥減roblem,鈥� all while trying to expand.
Sophia Domokos
CASSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published a paper, in the Journal of High Energy Physics, the highest-ranked journal in this field of study, on December 9, 2022. The paper, co-authored with Andrew B. Royston of Penn State - Fayette, closes a 20-year gap in the literature surrounding a very commonly used and well-studied system in string theory and paves the way for the study of special mathematical objects called "solitons" in this system.
Maryam Ravan
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesMaryam Ravan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, in collaboration with colleagues from Stanford University and McMaster University, has published an article, ",鈥� in Clinical Neurophysiology, a peer-reviewed publication, on December 7, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/ HUMJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was elected to the of the International James Joyce Foundation on December 6, 2022.
Melda Yildiz
CAS/ EducationMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, received a Fulbright Specialist Grant to serve as the Fulbright Specialist for 鈥淐ompetency Based Curriculum on Blue Economy鈥濃�� at the Tom Mboya University College on May 2022, through the U.S. Embassy Kenya, Fulbright Specialist Program. The project commenced on the October 18 and was completed on November 28, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/ HumJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation titled "Three Short Talks About Ulysses: Publication, Culture, Legacy" at IES en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ram贸n Fern谩ndez in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15, 2022. The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses.