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.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, was elected second vice president of the , a leading interdisciplinary professional organization for the study of twentieth-century literature, art, and culture. She will serve a three-year term concluding with the president.
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College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, co-edited a special journal issue of The Modernist Review, published on May 17, 2024. The issue includes a co-written introduction. Deviating from the typical The Modernist Review structure, this issue reproduces transcripts and discussions that were held at the Making Joyce Studies Safe event.
Eugene Kelly
College of Arts and SciencesEugene Kelly, Ph.D., adjunct professor in the Department of Humanities, published a paper, , in the International Journal of Social Imaginaries, on May 17, 2024.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, co-authored an article entitled on May 16, 2024. Goldman talks about how student protesters remind us of the age-old Jewish tradition of questioning authority and speaking truth to power.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, in the Journal of Plasma Physics, on April 29, 2024. The article explores the propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasmas near compact objects with magnetic and gravitomagnetic fields.
Kate E. O'Hara
CASKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends: An Intergenerational Design" at the on April 12, 2024, in Providence, R.I. In her interactive session, O鈥橦ara described the design and implementation of intergenerational learning projects within the context of project-based learning in higher education, in particular with first-generation college students. Content included the successes, as well as the challenges, of moving beyond age-based stereotypes to valuing new learning relationships and experiences to reimaging undergraduate learning as spaces for connection across.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was interviewed for a two-hour interview with renowned media expert and archivist Gerry Fialka for the video series on April 3, 2024.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, published an article titled in the April 2024 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Vision. This is a case study comparing two paintings: one by Rubens and another by Titian. The study aims to evaluate how Ruben's changes while copying Titian's painting altered the eye movements of the viewers.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented the paper, 鈥淕reenhouse Poetics: Sylvia Plath and Theodore Roethke鈥� at Symposium, held at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts on March 29, 2024.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article titled in Clinics in Dermatology. The article was published on March 27, 2024, and describes a novel assay and artificial intelligence-driven histopathologic approach identifying dermatophytes in human skin tissue sections (B-DNA dermatophyte assay) and demonstrates, for the first time, the presence of dermatophytes in tissue using immunohistochemistry to detect canonical right-handed double-stranded B-DNA. The assay resulted in superior identification, sensitivity, life cycle stages, and morphology compared to traditional stains.