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.
Rakesh Mittal
School of ManagementRakesh Mittal, Ph.D., associate professor of human resource management and law, co-authored the article alongside Maya Kroumova, Ph.D., professor of human resource management and labor relations, and Joshua Bienstock, Ph.D., associate professor of human resource management, published in the International Journal of Organizational Analysis, on November 10, 2021. The article focuses the importance of studying work-family conflict (WFC) and work/home boundaries, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant disruption in the work-family sphere have further underscored the need to study work-family conflict (WFC) and work/home boundaries. Mittal and others draw upon boundary theory to provide a more fine-grained insight into the personality - WFC interface, demonstrating that Stability and Plasticity, the two meta-traits of personality, influence WFC directly and indirectly, via boundary strength at work (BSW) and boundary strength at home (BSH) domains.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, discussed her monograph, "Annotating Modernism" (2020), as part of , an online event with authors Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, and Benjamin D. Hagen. The event was hosted by the Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text and Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham, UK., on November 10, 2021.
Jason Van Nest
School of Architecture and DesignJason Van Nest, M.Arch, assistant professor of architecture, presented a two-hour lecture and demonstration entitled to the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City on November 10, 2021. The topics of the presentation focused on Virtual Design & Construction (VDC), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows 鈥攕pecifically how these new approaches to design are expanding the legal, financial, and digital aspects design excellence.
Francine Glazer
Academic AffairsFrancine S Glazer, Ph.D., associate provost for educational innovation, and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, gave the opening plenary address at the on November 9, 2021. The address was attended by over 950 people who work in various capacities to support faculty and instructional development. Glazer is the current president of the POD Network, the premier international professional association for educational development.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, and Laura S. Rifkin published "When Physical Closeness Induces Psychological Distance: The Effects of Psychological Ownership and Contagion Threat on Social Connectedness," in the Journal of Consumer Behavior on November 5, 2021.
John Handrakis
School of Health ProfessionsJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, was the invited speaker at Grand Rounds, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, on November 2, 2021. He presented, “Thermoregulatory Dysfunction After Spinal Cord Injury,” the findings of his thermoregulation research program at the VA RR&D National Center for the Medical Consequences of SCI and their clinical relevance. Many of his 色界吧 DPT students were research assistants on several of the funded studies and were acknowledged for their contributions. Sixty-five people, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, attending physicians, fellows, residents, research scientists, and research coordinators were in attendance.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, presented her talk, 鈥淧sychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,鈥� at the College of Liberal Arts, Wenzhou Kean University, Wenzhou, China, via Zoom, on November 1, 2021.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article about the numerous NYC Black baseball teams and the ballparks they were playing in as the first-ever all-NYC World Series went on one hundred years ago, in the Village Voice on October 28, 2021.
Karen Vahey
EnrollmentKaren Vahey, Ed.D., dean of admissions and financial aid, co-presented at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021 in Philadelphia, PA, on October 28, 2021.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Birasnav Muthuraj, Ph.D., associate professor of management science studies, and Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor of management, published "Improving School performance and Student academic orientation: the role of Safety-oriented Knowledge management and Diversity" in the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems on October 25, 2021.