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.
Thomas Verebes
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureTom Verebes, Ph.D., associate dean of architecture, had his chapter, “Sentience and the Specificities of Cities,” published in on December 7, 2018.
Shaya Sheikh
School of ManagementShaya Sheikh, Ph.D., assistant professor of operations management, co-authored an article, \nin the International Journal of Production Research on December 6, 2018. Motivated by diverse applications of mass production methods, Sheikh and his co-authors investigate current research in one of industry's most popular mass production techniques. called assembly flow shops, and provide directions for future research and new trends on this topic.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, online at Penn State University Press on December 3, 2018.
Babak Beheshti
College of Engineering & Computing SciencesBabak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., interim dean of College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, delivered a keynote speech titled 鈥淗igher Education and Broadening Participation in Engineering,鈥� at the , held November 29 鈥� December 1, 2018 in White Plains, NY.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, launched the paperback publication of by University Press of Florida at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on November 28, 2018. The event, which included an introduction by Golden and readings by writers Deirdre Coyle, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Briallen Hopper, was live streamed to .
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, served as a panelists at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLA) conference, , November 11-18, 2018, discusing their augmented reality app to teach Shakespeare, "Out of (Shakespeare鈥檚) Mind and into the Classroom: Our Augmented Reality App for Teaching Hamlet.鈥� Misak and LaGrandeur are currently developing and beta testing an Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone application to use in an English classroom to help college-level students experience Shakespeare鈥檚 Hamlet in a more intimate, immersed way.
Mary Ann Achtziger
College of Osteopathic Medicine Student AdministrationMary Ann Achtziger, associate dean of student administration at NYITCOM, and Felicia Bruno, assistant dean of student administration at NYITCOM, made a presentation, 鈥淏est Practices in Student Affairs and Enrollment Services Administration at Professional Schools of Medicine and Law鈥� at the annual conference of the Long Island Council of Student Personnel Administrators on November 16, 2018. As a result of this session, NYITCOM will become the founding institution for a new council of senior administrators in student affairs and enrollment services from medical and law schools on Long Island.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her paper, 鈥淎irless Spaces: Schizophrenia and the Relations of Narrative Production,鈥� as part of a Neurodiversity/Neuronarrative panel at the annual conference in Toronto, Ontario on November 16, 2018.
Carol Dahir
College of Arts & Sciences Masters School CounselingCarol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 42nd Biennial International Conference of the , November 14-16, 2018 in Manila, Philipenes.
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College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, published an article, in Computers and Composition, Volume 50 on November 13, 2018. The article explains how virtual reality (VR) games can help students realize the importance of narrative sense of place and outlines a VR exercise for students to experience immersion as a parallel to how written works transport readers to their environments.