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.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda 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
CAS/ Humanties/Interdisciplinary StudiesKate 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.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, published his 鈥渞eview鈥� of George Eliot鈥檚 Middlemarch in the Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, Vol. 53, no. 2, 2022, pp. 299-303. The article, published on September 1, 2022, celebrated the occasion of the novel's 150th anniversary of publication. Guilano's Lewis Carroll: The Worlds of His Alices was earlier in the year by Jan Susina in Victorian Studies, Spring 2022 (64:3), 499-502.
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological and Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (i.e., Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2022 Annual Meeting) entitled , on August 1, 2022. Data from this research project shows, for the first time, the presence and distribution of three totally different structures of DNA molecules within normal human skin. These DNAs (canonical, alternative, and multistranded DNAs) were characterized simultaneously within the nucleus of cells, allowing for studies on gene expression between different forms of DNA.
Melda Yildiz
CAS/ EducationMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, had her article, "Algorithmic Social Justice through Participatory Action Research: Media Binds or Blinds?," published in
Claude Gagna
CAS / Biological and Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a response to "Expanding the Histone Code," the lead story of the June 6, 2022 edition of Chemical and Engineering News, in the Letters to the Editor, Reactions Section of the same publication on July 14, 2022. His letter, entitled focuses on how the research community of molecular biologists and chemists needs to expand its view of double-stranded DNA beyond that of Watson and Crick's canonical B-DNA molecule and consider exotic, alternative, and multistranded DNA structures when trying to crack the human histone code.
Claude Gagna
CAS - Biological and Chemical SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in investigative ophthalmology & visual sciences (ARVO Annual Meeting) entitled on July 1, 2022. This project reveals, for the first time, the distribution of three different structures of nucleic acids within the normal adult crystalline lens of the eye globe. This novel "omics" method reveals how each of the three DNAs plays a different role in gene expression.
Larry Jaffee
Arts & Sciences/Communication ArtsLarry Jaffee, M.A., adjunct professor of communication arts, hosted the Making Vinyl conference in Nashville, TN on June 23-24, 2022, where he was privileged to introduce music legend T Bone Burnett as closing keynote speaker. Jaffee co-founded , the only B2B platform dedicated to the global rebirth of the vinyl record manufacturing industry. He also produced a Making Vinyl Europe conference in Frankfurt, Germany on September 1-2, 2022. Since 2017, Jaffee has worked with such music industry luminaries as Jack White, Darryl McDaniels, and Little Steven Van Zandt at Making Vinyl events in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was quoted extensively in a column for the Irish Independent by Colum Murphy titled , on June 12, 2022. Goldman says: 鈥淵es, Joyce is difficult to read. Yes, not everybody is going to read the book cover to cover. But any kind of engagement with Ulysses is a form of leadership.鈥�
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, spoke at the for their event devoted to James Joyce's Ulysses, on the subject of "U for You" (Ulysses for all readers), on June 3, 2022.