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.
Randy Stout
College of Osteopathic MedicineRandy Stout, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences and director of the 黑料导航 Imaging Center, presented "Illuminating the Dark Forest in Our Head: Neuroscience and AI " to a group of 70 high school students from New York and New Jersey along with an audience of researchers from around the world as part of the annual "ASN High School Day" event at the held August 19鈥�22, 2025, at the Javits Center in Manhattan. At the same event, Stout presented a research poster on gap junctions intercellular endocytosis as a source of extracellular vesicles in the brain; Amanda Charest, imaging specialist in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, presented a poster on new methods of analyzing highly multiplexed spatial multiomics and super-resolution STED data from brain tissue.
Vladimir Grubisic
College of Osteopathic MedicineVladimir Grubisic, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, participated in the panel at the ISN-ASN 2025 Meeting on August 19, 2025. He spoke on "Enteric glia as friends and foes of the intestinal epithelial functions," pointing out some of the complex roles of enteric glia in the intestinal epithelial barrier function following acute inflammation.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an essay in "," a collection of selected papers presented at the 2022 International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. The collection was published online on August 18, 2025, and in paperback by Brill on September 4, 2025. Goldman's contribution, "Including Frances Steloff," analyses Steloff鈥檚 influence on Joyce鈥檚 reception in the United States and internationally, and argues that her work emphasized the collective, and often gendered, enterprise of creating a literary legacy.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has been awarded an NIH Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant as principal investigator. The project, , was awarded on August 12, 2025, and it will investigate how radiologists interpret complex medical images when aided by artificial intelligence, using eye-tracking data to optimize how visual cues are delivered. In parallel, the grant supports the Human Factors And Neuroscience Lab鈥檚 student-centered training model as a pipeline for student success.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article, entitled "," in Journal of Consumer Behaviour, an A-level marketing journal, on August 12, 2025. People in the sharing economy are often rated for their behavior, and those ratings now appear on other platforms. For example, an Uber rating can appear on a dating app. Across four experiments, the researchers find that hiding such a rating can make someone seem less trustworthy or appealing. These results suggest that sharing economy ratings influence reputations beyond their original platforms and that keeping them private can backfire.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article entitled "," in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology on August 7, 2025. This journal is a top-quality journal in business and one of the top journals in social psychology. In this research, Kirk and her coauthors show that invitees often choose to say 鈥渕aybe鈥� instead of 鈥渘o鈥� to social invitations because they mistakenly believe it鈥檚 what inviters prefer, when in fact, inviters feel more disrespected by indecision than by direct rejection.
Victoria Cuomo
School of Health ProfessionsVictoria Cuomo, M.S.N., a nursing instructor in the School of Health Professions, was named "Nurse of the Week" by The Daily Nurse, an online news, career, and opinion magazine for nurses in the United States. Cuomo was featured in an article published August 6, 2025, "."
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was named one of by the Long Island Business News, on July 25, 2025. He was honored for his research in developing novel AI clinical pathology diagnostic tools and molecular biological-based research methods in genomics for cancer research.
Matthias Altwicker
School of Architecture and DesignMatthias Altwicker, M.U.P., B.Arch., associate professor of architecture, curated an exhibit, , which opened July 23, 2025, at the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. The exhibit highlights the significant role of open space in the daily lives of millions of public housing residents who have called New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments home.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, gave a public book talk lecture at , an organization hosting professors and experts giving thought-provoking weekly lectures inside of bars all over New York City. The lecture was held at NeueHouse NYC, on July 21, 2025.