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.
Francine Glazer
Academic AffairsFrancine S Glazer, Ph.D., associate provost for educational innovation, and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, gave the opening plenary address at the on November 9, 2021. The address was attended by over 950 people who work in various capacities to support faculty and instructional development. Glazer is the current president of the POD Network, the premier international professional association for educational development.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, and Laura S. Rifkin published "When Physical Closeness Induces Psychological Distance: The Effects of Psychological Ownership and Contagion Threat on Social Connectedness," in the Journal of Consumer Behavior on November 5, 2021.
John Handrakis
School of Health ProfessionsJohn Handrakis, D.P.T., Ed.D., professor of physical therapy, was the invited speaker at Grand Rounds, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, on November 2, 2021. He presented, “Thermoregulatory Dysfunction After Spinal Cord Injury,” the findings of his thermoregulation research program at the VA RR&D National Center for the Medical Consequences of SCI and their clinical relevance. Many of his 懂色帝 DPT students were research assistants on several of the funded studies and were acknowledged for their contributions. Sixty-five people, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, attending physicians, fellows, residents, research scientists, and research coordinators were in attendance.
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, presented her talk, 鈥淧sychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,鈥� at the College of Liberal Arts, Wenzhou Kean University, Wenzhou, China, via Zoom, on November 1, 2021.
Jonathan Goldman
HumanitiesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article about the numerous NYC Black baseball teams and the ballparks they were playing in as the first-ever all-NYC World Series went on one hundred years ago, in the Village Voice on October 28, 2021.
Karen Vahey
EnrollmentKaren Vahey, Ed.D., dean of admissions and financial aid, co-presented at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021 in Philadelphia, PA, on October 28, 2021.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Birasnav Muthuraj, Ph.D., associate professor of management science studies, and Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor of management, published "Improving School performance and Student academic orientation: the role of Safety-oriented Knowledge management and Diversity" in the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems on October 25, 2021.
Vera Manzi-Schacht
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Digital Art & DesignVera Manzi-Schacht, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of digital art and design, had her terracotta sculpture, “Remembrance,” a fired terra-cotta sculpture incised with the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, featured in the book by Janetta Rebold Benton, published by Thames & Hudson on October 26, 2021. The book is part of their Essential Art Series and is being translated into Chinese, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English (American and British versions), Russian, and Latvian.
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College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a of Heather Clark's biography, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf, 2020), to Modernism/modernity's Print Plus on October 21, 2021.
Charles Pavia
College of Osteopathic MedicineCharles Pavia, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences, and Maria Plummer, M.D., associate professor, department of clinical specialities, published two articles, to Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, on October 5, 2021, and to the Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, on April 8, 2021.