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.
Edgar Papazian
School of Archtecture and DesignEdgar Papazian, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, has published an article on Drawing Matter, a website for a charitable trust based in the United Kingdom, that explores the role of drawing in architectural thought. The March 16, 2026, article, titled "," describes his use of artificial intelligence in revealing aspects of Italian Baroque facades through orthographic drawing-to-photograph interpolations in the form of short animations.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "" in the Sycopated Times, on March 11, 2026. The Savoy was the first New York City venue to disregard Jim Crow practices.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper, "," in Sports, on March 2, 2026. The study revealed that over a quarter (25.4%) of high-level hockey players experience substantial symptoms of piriformis syndrome, highlighting a significant but previously under-recognized health issue in this athletic population.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was formally accepted as a senior member into the on February 26, 2026.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, published a paper, "," in Algorithms, an academic journal, published on February 25, 2026. The paper systematically evaluated five leading multimodal large language models (including GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, Llama 4 Maverick, Grok 4, and Claude Opus 4.5 Extended) on a standardized radiological interpretation task. The authors found a high rate of fundamental diagnostic errors and significant variability between models, even on straightforward cases. Sungjoon Hong, a NYITCOM first-year medical student, and Mihir Matalia, development security operations engineer from the NYITCOM Academic Technologies Group, were co-authors of the paper.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, working with 色界吧 medical students Rachel Lee and Sarah Landman, have published a research paper, "Feature-Limited Performance in Machine Learning Prediction of Endometriosis from Clinical Symptoms," in the academic journal Medical Research Archives, on February 24, 2026. The paper highlights the ongoing challenges women face in healthcare, particularly with conditions like endometriosis that are historically underdiagnosed and under-researched. This paper underscores the urgent need for better diagnostic tools and richer data sources.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, published "," in the Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision. She was the first author of the article, published on February 16, 2026.
Sebastien Marion
LibrarySebastien Marion, M.L.I.S., M.B.A., librarian III, and Eduardo Rivera, librarian III, have been awarded a (LILRC) grant as co-principal investigators. The project, "Building AI Fluency Through Prompt Engineering: A Scalable Model for Long Island Libraries," was awarded on February 11, 2026, and will pilot Long Island鈥檚 first shared Prompt Engineering Literacy Toolkit, aligned with the Association of College and Research Libraries AI Competencies.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, co-wrote an . It focused on using AI to write Valentine's messages. The article, , was also published in Fast Company magazine on February 8, 2026. The research suggests that having AI fully ghostwrite heartfelt Valentine鈥檚 messages can backfire by triggering guilt and reducing authenticity (a 鈥渟ource-credit discrepancy鈥�). The article recommends using AI for brainstorming while ensuring the final note is meaningfully one's own. Her research, on the same topic, was cited in a on February 9, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article "Luis Mu帽oz Mar铆n: Boricua Modernism between Poetics and Politics" in the collection "" (Oxford Universty Press), on February 6, 2026. The article analyzes the 1920s fiction, verse, and journalism of Luis Mu帽oz Mar铆n, written two-plus decades before Mar铆n became the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.