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 & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in The FASEB Journal entitled on May 13, 2022. This research demonstrates a novel "omics" method, which has shown, for the first time ever, the simultaneous presence of three totally different types of DNA structures in a human cell, namely, B-DNA (i.e., canonical double-stranded DNA), left-handed Z-DNA (i.e., alternative type of B-DNA) and Quadruplex DNA (i.e., four-stranded DNA molecule). All these structures play a role in normal and pathological cellular conditions.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture, Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his research titled published by The Blog of International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), based at Leiden University in the Netherlands, on May 4, 2022. IIAS connects knowledge and people, contributing to a more integrated understanding of Asia today by focusing on relevant themes and issues together with scholars and practitioners throughout the world.
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Enrollment Management and Strategic CommunicationsRon Goldberg, web content editor in the Office of Enrollment Management of Strategic Communications, was the featured interviewee on Rated LGBT Radio's program on April 28, 2022. In the interview, Goldberg discusses the parallels between the current wave of anti-LGBTQ+ laws and rhetoric and earlier homophobia of the early AIDS epidemic and offers lessons for young activists based on his own experiences as a member of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Deborah Cohn
School of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., interim dean of the School of Management and professor of marketing, was quoted in an article about Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts featured on Debthammer.org titled on April 27, 2022.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic Medicine / Department of Osteopathic Manipulative MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper in the journal Materials entitled coauthored by two medical students, Faiz Syed and Rejath Jose, in collaboration with Timothy Devine and Chris Coletti from the Institute for Clinical Competence, on April 26, 2022.
Michael Tautonico
School of Health Professions, Department of Physical TherapyMichael Tautonico, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, was awarded a $3,000 grant for safe patient handling and mobility training, on April 18, 2022.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, received a for her project, "Editing the Poems of Sylvia Plath," on April 13, 2022.
Larry Jaffee
College of Arts & Sciences Communication ArtsLarry Jaffee, M.A., adjunct professor of communication arts, published his book, Record Store Day: The Most Probable Comeback of the 21st Century, on April 12, 2022, by Rare Bird Books, of Los Angeles. The book provides the official inside story on how Record Store Day managed to revive the vinyl format from oblivion over the past fifteen years with some of the biggest artists jumping at the chance to support independent record stores. This alliance and renewed camaraderie between artists and record stores set in motion the world's largest annual music event: Record Store Day.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., presented her work with Dr. Andy Royston of Penn State 鈥� Fayette at the on April 10, 2022. The work concerns using string theory's holographic duality to better understand certain types of quantum field theories termed "defect field theories". Domokos's work with Dr. Nelia Mann, which describes how holographic duality naturally incorporates the phenomenon of particles called "glueballs" mixing with other particles called "mesons", so that the objects seen in experiments are a superposition of the two different types of states, was also featured at the conference.
John Handrakis
School of Health ProfessionsJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, presented his team's research on thermoregulatory dysfunction in persons with spinal cord injury at the 2022 Biotechnology Conference: Transforming and Improving the Human Condition, on April 7, 2022. Handrakis provided evidence on the efficacy of his team's feedback-controlled heated vest in minimizing the decline in core body temperature and cognitive performance during cold exposure in persons with spinal cord injury. The vest prototype was developed in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, US Military Academy at West Point. The preliminary findings hold promise for a bio-engineering intervention to improve the human condition.