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.
Wenyao Hu
School of ManagementWenyao Hu, Ph.D., CFA, , assistant professor of accounting and finance at the School of Management, presented "The Power of Language: Does Vocabulary Richness Provide Value to Investors?" at the held in Limoges, France, on June 12, 2025. Hu introduced a new linguistic feature into the business context鈥攙ocabulary richness鈥攚hich measures the range of vocabulary used by executives during earnings conference calls. His findings suggest that high vocabulary richness significantly enhances the initial market reaction by helping market participants better understand the conveyed information.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts and SciencesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Fear, Freedom, and the Future of Philosophy" at the on June 12, 2025, in New York City. In her interactive session, O鈥橦ara described how neoliberal values, discourses, and policies over the last few decades have worked to eradicate what philosophy offers undergraduate college students, many of whom are first generation students. O鈥橦ara shared examples of how the study of philosophy has the potential to disrupt, not perpetuate, the systems and structures of inequality by fostering multidisciplinary ways of thinking, analyzing, and problem solving while taking into account the impact of socio-cultural, historical, political, and/or economic forces on everyday life.
Jennifer Griffiths
College of Arts and SciencesJennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented "Engaging Students in Technology Ethics: The Responsible Tech Ambassador Initiative at New York Institute of Technology" at the , held June 6-8, 2025, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Jason Van Nest
School of Architecture and DesignJason Van Nest, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, was extensively quoted in , published on June 5, 2025. Van Nest discussed modular homes and affordable housing.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture and DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, gave a hosted by the (AIA) hosted by the Sub-Zero, Wolf, & Cove Showroom on June 3, 2025.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, released a website/gallery exhibition, "" on May 24, 2025. Gagna is introducing a novel eye globe biological-based art form (i.e., bio art), or what can be called 鈥淎natomical /Histological/Molecular Biological Art.鈥�
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented the paper, 鈥�',鈥� at the in Boston, Mass., May 22, 2025.
Abhishek Singh
Office of Institutional ResearchAbhishek Singh, M.S., research associate, and Mohammed Moizuddin, M.S., director, both working in the Office of Institutional Research, presented a session titled 鈥溾�� at the 2025 AIR Forum in Orlando, Fla., on May 22, 2025. Their session showcased how tools like Tableau Prep, Tableau, and Python can be applied to NSSE survey data to uncover trends in student engagement and to support institutional efforts around retention and graduation.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published a co-authored paper, " in the peer-reviewed journal, Children's Literature in Education, on May 21, 2025. The article explores picturebooks that combine metafiction鈥攅lements that draw attention to their own fictionality鈥攚ith materiality鈥攖he physical existence of books.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, was elected as a Fellow of the on May 16, 2025. This honor is awarded to scholars who 鈥渄emonstrate clear evidence of independent scholarship, active engagement in methodologically rigorous and theoretically interesting high-level research, and indications of an imminent national/international reputation for excellence in the psychological sciences.鈥�