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.
Deborah Y. Cohn
School of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., interim dean of the School of Management and professor of marketing, presented 鈥淐onnecting with a Remote Audience: Teaching and Presenting,鈥� at the IABE-2021 New York 鈥� Online Conference, on October 1, 2021.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts and SciencesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Interconnected and Emerging" at the 6th Annual International Conference on Critical Autoethnography in Melbourne, Australia on September 30, 2021. In her session, O鈥橦ara presented virtually about the interconnectedness of her shared experiences with her undergraduate students as they emerged from a global pandemic. She spoke of personal context, juxtaposed and connected to cultural, political, and social understandings. O鈥橦ara also asked participants to explore their own socially constructed concepts of space, place, and time in relation to 鈥渘ormalcy.鈥�
Adrienne McNally
Career Success and Experiential EducationAdrienne McNally, M.S., director of experiential education, was presented with the by the National Society of Experiential Education (NSEE) on September 27, 2021. The award recognizes an outstanding K-12 or higher education institution that has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to experiential education in their classrooms or on their campuses. Founded in 1971, the NSEE is a nonprofit membership organization composed of educators, businesses, and community leaders that strives to cultivate educators who effectively use experiential education as an integral part of personal, professional, civic, and global learning.
Karen Vahey
Enrollment ManagementKaren Vahey, Ed.D., dean of admissions and financial aid, co-presented "Tuition Pricing and Discounting in the Age of COVID-19" at the annual conference of the (NACAC) in Seattle, WA, on September 24, 2021.
Jordan Thompson
General CounselJordan Thompson, J.D., deputy general counsel and privacy officer, participated in Law.com's , and was a panelist in "Navigating States鈥� Data Privacy Initiatives and Coming to Terms with CCPA, CPRA."
Shaya Sheikh
School of ManagementShaya Sheikh, Ph.D., assistant professor of operations management, published his paper, in ABDC A* ranked journal, Decision Support Systems, on September 22, 2021. Sheikh's paper addresses the challenge of incorporating both qualitative and quantitative measures in automatic clustering.
Rajendram Rajnarayanan
NYITCOM at Arkansas StateRajendram Rajnarayanan, Ph.D., assistant dean of research and associate professor at NYITCOM-Arkansas, was interviewed and featured in , a project of The Scripps Research Institute, on September 21, 2021. In the article, Rajnarayanan discusses how biomedical scientists from NYITCOM-Arkansas are using data to increase COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, and health literacy in rural Arkansas, where thousands of people lack easy access to health care and health education, including information on COVID-19 and emerging variants.
Marcelle Hicks
Enrollment ManagementMarcelle Hicks, M.A., senior director of undergraduate admissions, was selected on September 8, 2021, to join the 15-member Applications Advisory Committee of the Common Application, a central application system used by more than 900 member colleges and universities around the U.S. and the world. Hicks will serve a three-year term and will assist the Common Application to expand its commitment to access equity and integrity in the college admissions process, and address issues impacting students, school counselors, and member institutions.
Amy Bravo
Career Success and Experiential EducationAmy Bravo, M.A., senior director of career success and experiential education, was awarded the for Building Resilient Communities between New York Institute of Technology and Let's Talk Safety, Inc. in Harlem, on September 8, 2021.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, , to Oxford Academic's Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, on September 4, 2021.\nBhattacharjee's paper proposes a new source of magnetic field and flow generation near a Black hole accretion disk. This new source is a consequence of a general relativistic effect called frame dragging which churns the background space and time near a Black hole. Bhattacharjee's result provides a mathematical basis to a phenomena predicted back in 1992 by the astronomers.