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, co-edited the book with Anita Helle and Maeve O'Brien, published by Bloomsbury Academic, on May 25, 2022. The volume contains chapters by 27 scholars, including Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement, and Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English and director of interdisciplinary studies. A launch event took place on May 25, hosted by Melissa Parrish of Smith College, featuring a panel of speakers from the collection.
Donald Fizzinoglia
College of Arts and Sciences, Communication ArtsDon Fizzignolia, M.A., professor and chair of the Department of Communication Arts, had his peer-reviewed book, Crime in TV, the News, and Film, published by Rowman and Littlefield on May 20, 2022. The book provides a fresh look at the interplay between criminal events and the media outlets that cover them. The authors' diverse backgrounds—a criminologist researcher, a documentarian and media professor, a police officer, and a criminologist who is a former TV reporter—allow for a frank discussion.\nViewers of crime dramas and consumers of news will gain a new understanding of the way their programs are produced. Readers will become more aware of the biases that sometimes cloud perceptions of crime and criminals. Finally, experts and scholars will improve their discernment of media depictions. The book is useful in the classroom in fields of media, communications, criminology, sociology, and more.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented his paper titled "This Is My Body: Owning Oneself in Wilde and Joyce" at , hosted at Trinity College, Dublin, on May 14, 2022.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in The FASEB Journal entitled on May 13, 2022. This research demonstrates a novel "omics" method, which has shown, for the first time ever, the simultaneous presence of three totally different types of DNA structures in a human cell, namely, B-DNA (i.e., canonical double-stranded DNA), left-handed Z-DNA (i.e., alternative type of B-DNA) and Quadruplex DNA (i.e., four-stranded DNA molecule). All these structures play a role in normal and pathological cellular conditions.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed abstract in The FASEB Journal entitled on May 13, 2022. This publication discusses the development of novel, next generation DNA-based microarrays, i.e., canonical right-handed B-DNA, the alternative left-handed Z-DNA structure, and the four stranded G4-quadruplex DNA. The microarrays allow for enhanced drug discovery of DNA-based pharmaceuticals used to turn off pathological gene expression.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, received a for her project, "Editing the Poems of Sylvia Plath," on April 13, 2022.
Larry Jaffee
College of Arts & Sciences Communication ArtsLarry Jaffee, M.A., adjunct professor of communication arts, published his book, Record Store Day: The Most Probable Comeback of the 21st Century, on April 12, 2022, by Rare Bird Books, of Los Angeles. The book provides the official inside story on how Record Store Day managed to revive the vinyl format from oblivion over the past fifteen years with some of the biggest artists jumping at the chance to support independent record stores. This alliance and renewed camaraderie between artists and record stores set in motion the world's largest annual music event: Record Store Day.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., presented her work with Dr. Andy Royston of Penn State 鈥� Fayette at the on April 10, 2022. The work concerns using string theory's holographic duality to better understand certain types of quantum field theories termed "defect field theories". Domokos's work with Dr. Nelia Mann, which describes how holographic duality naturally incorporates the phenomenon of particles called "glueballs" mixing with other particles called "mesons", so that the objects seen in experiments are a superposition of the two different types of states, was also featured at the conference.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts & ScienceSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, presented work funded by her NSF grant during the workshop at the Simons Center For Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, on April 5, 2022.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts and SciencesSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, was selected to join the at UCSB, on March 31, 2022. The KITP Scholars program selects six-to-eight faculty annually from undergrad-focused schools as KITP Scholars. Scholars have the opportunity to spend six weeks over two years at the KITP.