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.
Jonathan Goldman
casJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented his digital humanities project, "NY1920s: When We Became Modern," at the on October 29, 2022, in Portland, OR.
Shinu Kuriakose
School of Health ProfessionsShinu Kuriakose, DHSc, PA-C, associate professor of physician assistant studies, presented at the 2022 New York State Society of Physician Assistants conference, held in Saratoga Springs, NY, on October 28 鈥� 30, 2022. Kuriakose spoke on "Pandemics and Mood Disorders," "Research Curriculum: Literature Review, IRB, to Submission," "Paradigm," and "Mental Health First Aid: CPR for the Soul." He also had five posters presented at NYSSPA in collaboration with the 色界吧 PA students, including: "Do Clinical Providers鈥� Accents Influence Patients鈥� Perceptions of Competency?," "Social Stigma and STD Testing in Young Adults," "Adaptive and Maladaptive Perfectionism in PA Students' \nAttitudes Toward Psychiatry: A Cross-sectional Study of PA Students," and "PA Virtual Interviews: Faculty and Applicant Perspectives."
\nJonathan Goldman
casJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, delivered his paper, "Cutesy Modernism: Rose O'Neill's Nonbinary Empire," at the on October 28, 2022 in Portland, OR.
\nSophia Domokos
College of Arts and SciencesSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, was an invited speaker at a recent workshop, , hosted by the University of Helsinki on October 24-26, 2022, in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop brought together experts in string theory's holographic duality, like Domokos, with experts in nuclear physics and neutron stars. Holographic duality is one of the most promising tools we have to understand the behavior of dense matter inside neutron stars.
Anya Martin
School of Architecture & Design / ArchitectureAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, curated an displaying microalgae in the big spheres of Genoma, in the arid greenhouse of the Biodiversity Garden, at the University of Padua, from September 27 - October 23, 2022. Melis curated the exhibit originally for Pnat, Arte Sella e Liam Donovan-Stumbles for the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition 鈥� La Biennale di Venezia (2021).\n
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk on "Editing Sylvia Plath" on October 23, 2022, as a part of the , held in Hebden Bridge, England.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts and SciencesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Listening with Our Eyes: Taking Action through Photovoice" at the virtual , on October 20, 2022. In her interactive presentation, O鈥橦ara shared the design and implementation of an undergraduate student research project, based on a Photovoice framework. Through the philosophical lenses of relational and critical pedagogy, student examples were shared. The presentation also addressed aspects of Photovoice as a method to inform the fields of both qualitative and quantitative research, countering privileged scholarship, and centering marginalized voices.
Anya Martin
School of Architecture & Design / ArchitectureAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, spoke about an innovative and unique project, the Stella Maris hospital in Pisa, Italy, designed by his studio Heliopolis 21, exclusively intended for the treatment of neuropsychiatric pathologies of the developmental age, at a screening of the short film Pin whose protagonist is an adult with autism, on October 19, 2022. He was joined by Athina Papadopoulou, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture, an expert in health and design whose research is on inclusive design, affective computing, and therapeutic applications for autism.
Anya Martin
School of Architecture & Design / ArchitectureAlessandro Melis, Ph.D., IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Architecture and Design, gave a keynote speech entitled at a conference at UNIBE on October 11, 2022.
\nDiana Moronta
LibraryDiana Moronta, M.S.L.I.S., presented her work "Building community as resistance in LIS," for the at Metropolitan New York Library Council(METRO) on October 7, 2022 in New York City.