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.
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences | MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, presented a talk and chaired a session on the effects of particles diffusion and membrane pore elasticity on membrane filtration performance at the on November 26, 2019.
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, delivered remarks in a book roundtable celebrating the publication of Black Madness: Mad Blackness, with author Ther铆 Alyce Pickens, at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, in New York City on November 12, 2019.
Amy Bravo
International & Experiential EducationTerry Nauheim, M.F.A., associate professor of digital art and design, Michael Hosenfeld, associate professor of digital art and design, Paul Demonte, M.A., adjunct instructor of communication arts, Adrienne McNally, M.S., director of experiential education, and Amy Bravo, M.A., senior director of international and experiential education, presented at on November 9, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Their presentation, “Strategies for Reforming Academic Models to Support Community Partnership,” spoke about Ready for Take-Off, a student-driven documentary film project that raises public awareness about flight, mobility, and advancement for people with disabilities. Ready for Take-Off engaged students and faculty of 懂色帝 to produce a short documentary film, commemorating the fifth anniversary of a JetBlue flight for disabled high school students of the Henry Viscardi School of the Viscardi Center.
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a poster about "Experimental Engagements" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of California in Irvine, California on November 9, 2019.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English presented “An AR Hamlet Mystery” at the Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, in Irvine, California on October 31, 2019.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of Englisha and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered her paper, “,” at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts annual conference in Irvine, California, on November 8, 2019.
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored an article with Hamed Behzad, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, titled “,” published on November 6, 2019, about how finite arrays of bottom-hinged flap-type wave energy converters are modeled using a numerical approach. The converters are similar to the ones from Aquamarine Power, which is called Oyster, using ANSYS-AQWA as software for numerical simulation. The goal of this study is to optimize the annual energy absorption of a farm depending on the lateral and vertical spacing between converters based on a wave-spectrum case study.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English were interviewed by the internet business magazine, Hypergrid Business. They were quoted in the article, “,” where they spoke about their project to bring Hamlet into the classroom as an Augmented Reality game. The article was published on October 31, 2019.
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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, delivered a Keynote Lecture and Workshop at the , symposium at Syracuse University, in Syracuse, N.Y. Her lecture, “'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities,” was presented on October 29, 2019, and her workshop, “Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” was presented on October 30, 2019, at the Symposium.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was an invited speaker at the in Red Hook, Brooklyn on October 26, 2019. O鈥橦ara鈥檚 talk, "Capturing Lived Experience," explained her use of arts-based methods in her social science research.