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, is a member of , where he moderated the plenary roundtable, "Night Life/ Street Life," at the on October 28, 2023. At the same conference, he presented a paper titled "The Sheik of Amerikay: Whiteness in The Great Gatsby."
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, co-chaired the local organizing committee for the held in Brooklyn, New York, from October 26 to 29, 2023. She and co-chairs, Patrick Deer (NYU), Matthew Hart (Columbia), and Nico Israel (Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center), spent six years planning this major interdisciplinary, international conference that was initially to be held in 2020. The conference featured over 700 participants, including world-renowned scholars. Golden also co-organized the seminar, "Electrifying the Streets" on modernism and technology with Heather A. Love of the University of Waterloo; chaired a roundtable; and organized a publishing workshop and an excursion to the Brooklyn Museum.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on for at 脡cole Jeannine Manuel, Paris, France, on October 5, 2023.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor in the psychology and counseling department, shared her expert knowledge concerning bullying in schools in a recently published article, on the on August 31, 2023.
Yusui Chen
PhysicsYusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled in Physical Review A on July 19, 2023. The article studies the precise dynamics of a quantum optical cavity interacting with an environment prepared in a squeezed state.
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College of Arts and Sciences, HumanitiesJessica Hautsch, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor of humanities, published a book on July 13, 2023, titled . It discusses a novel way of analyzing fan thinking and creation, focusing on embodied, emotional, and communal cognitive systems. The book has been published as part of the Palgrave Fan Studies imprint, a book series specializing in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
\n\nJohn Misak
CAS/HumanitiesJohn Misak, M.A., D.A., associate professor of humanities, was awarded The Ellen Nold Award on July 5, 2023, presented annually for an article or book chapter in computers and composition studies that contributes to the field in innovative, impactful ways, in the spirit of Nold鈥檚 original 1975 CCC article
Nicole Calma-Roddin
College of Arts and SciencesNicole Calma-Roddin, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral sciences, Kevin Park, M.F.A., assistant professor of digital arts and design, and Jacqueline Keighron, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological and chemical sciences, have published an article, "," in the Journal of Chemical Education on June 8, 2023. The article describes an interactive, web-based virtual reality (VR) experience that was created to complement the BIOL 340 lab and includes an analysis of student engagement. Results showed that students engaged with and enjoyed the activity, and suggest that the activity increased student understanding.
Claude Gagna
CAS, Biological & Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a response to "The Promise of Peptide Nucleic Acids," an article written about gene therapy in the April 3, 2023 edition of Chemical and Engineering News, a publication of the American Chemical Society, in the Letters to the Editor, Reactions Section. His letter to the editor, entitled published on June 4, 2023, focuses on how researchers need to go beyond Watson and Crick's classic canonical double-stranded structure of B-DNA, and focus on alternative (i.e., Z-DNA, Z-RNA) and multistranded DNA and RNA (i.e., triplex DNA and quadruplex DNA) molecules in order to fully achieve the promise of peptide nucleic acid therapeutics. Peptide-based drugs can be used to treat pathologies.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented 鈥溾�楨diting Sylvia Plath at 90鈥� at the in Boston, Mass., on May 27, 2023. She organized and spoke on a panel, "Sylvia Plath at 90," which featured leading scholars including Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., 懂色帝 associate dean and professor of English, who presented 鈥淧sychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction."