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 his abstract, in the Biophysical Journal, on February 11, 2022. The abstract describes a novel method which demonstrated, for the first time, the spatial genomic organization of three different DNAs concurrently in human tissues; a technique that will help researchers better understand gene expression.
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College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk on hosted virtually by Bedlam Book Cafe. The event was also the paperback launch of Golden's monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, on February 11, 2022.
Wenjia Li
CoECS/Computer ScienceWenjia Li, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, has recently published a conference paper titled on February 10, 2022. In this paper, co-authored by Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, an NSF REU student that he advised during the summer of 2021, they propose a deep learning-based approach to identify malware for the Android system in the presence of adversarial example attacks. This research is partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant (No. CNS-1852316).
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his article, concerning a new approach to cancer research, based on the work of the famous biochemist, Otto H. Warburg, and his hypothesis, i.e., the Warburg Effect, in Skinmed on February 3, 2022. The article focuses on how this approach to determine the origins of human cancer, which are still not fully understood, applies to pathologies of human skin.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Trinh La, and Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, published a research article titled in Environment Systems and Decisions, on February 3, 2022.
Shaya Sheikh
School of ManagementShaya Sheikh, Ph.D., associate professor of quantitative and analytics, published his paper, in Computers & Industrial Engineering, on February 1, 2022.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., assistant professor of marketing, was interviewed by Lindsay Keener about her consumer behavior research for her article, published on the branding platform Quikly.com, on January 31, 2022.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published in the Village Voice, on January 31, 2022. The article celebrates the centenary of Joyce's novel Ulysses and specifically the women who helped it reach the public: New Yorkers Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Josephine Bell, and Frances Steloff, plus Sylvia Beach, Harriet Shaw Weaver, Josephine Murray, and of course Nora Barnacle. "Their efforts and sacrifices to support, publish, and promulgate Joyce鈥檚 work, and the disrespect and other [stuff] they put up with, were essential to the journey of Ulysses from Joyce鈥檚 hands into ours."
Radoslaw Nowak
School of ManagementRadoslaw (Radek) Nowak, Ph.D., assistant professor of human resource studies, had his paper, published in World Scientific's International Journal of Innovation Management on January 20, 2022.
Kapil Bajaj
College of Osteopathic Medicine Dean's Office-JonesboroKapil Bajaj, MCTP, director of academic and research technology at NYITCOM-Arkansas, was awarded Fellow status from , on January 14, 2022. This designation indicates professional status and advancement within the HIMSS professional society and is bestowed in recognition of service, professional participation, job experience, publications, and presentations.