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 & Sciences Life SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA Microarrays," published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, on December 13, 2018. The abstract, as presented at the 2018 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, is connected to his research, based on the Gagna/NYIT patent, for the next generation of DNA microarrays, where he is developing prototypes of double-stranded left-handed Z-DNA microarrays. Z-DNA is an alternative form of DNA that plays a major role in regulating human cells. These prototypes, which represent the next generation of DNA microarrays, will be part of an STTR-NIH grant to commercialize them as biomedical research products for sale to scientists to use in a variety of research projects.
Marcella Del Signore
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureMarcella Del Signore,, associate professor of architecture, co-authored a book chapter on technological/urban/social resilience, titled "Learning from New Orleans: Social Resilience for Urban Ecosystems," featured in , published by Routledge on December 13, 2018. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science, and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies, and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the , representing the Forum for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing, on December 13, 2018.
Rakesh Mittal
School of Management Human Resource StudiesRakesh Mittal, Ph.D., assistant professor of human resource management, and Joshua E. Bienstock, L.L.M., J.D., assistant professor of human resource management, published an article, in Management Research Review, a prestigious Emerald Journal, on December 12, 2018. In addition to contributing significantly to literature on leadership and work-life interface, this research provides guidance to managers to follow practices that would augment the life satisfaction of their employees.
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 and SciencesAmanda 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.