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.
Tanya Van Cott
School of Architecture and DesignTanya H. Van Cott, M.I.D., adjunct assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Design, was interviewed on , a social engineering podcast, on November 16, 2025. She spoke about her new novel, Bandwidth, as well as artificial intelligence, empathy, digital technologies, and humanity's shared future.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article entitled "" in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, a peer-reviewed journal, on November 14, 2025. As consumers increasingly use generative AI tools like ChatGPT to write personal, emotionally meaningful messages, this research finds that doing so elicits guilt because it feels dishonest. Five preregistered experiments show elevated guilt when AI secretly writes a message, but not when using a standard greeting card. The results highlight dishonesty concerns in generative AI-assisted communication and suggest transparency and co-creation can reduce discomfort.
Jessica Varghese
School of Health ProfessionsJessica Varghese, Ph.D., RN, assistant professor of nursing, authored a guest essay in Long Island newspaper Newsday titled , on November 14, 2025. In the essay, she highlighted the health, academic, and economic benefits of electric school buses.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was featured in USA Today's , on November 7, 2025, highlighting her film, Bird Woman, and AI chatbots made with the help of a 懂色帝 grant.
Jeffrey Raven
School of Architecture and DesignJeffrey Raven, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the graduate program in architecture, urban and regional design, published a book, , with the Cambridge University Press, on November 5, 2025. The peer-reviewed work contains benchmarked knowledge and city projections for urban climate change researchers, city practitioners, and policy makers at all levels of governance to motivate rapid action.
Zohre Bairieva
School of Architecture and DesignThe Hyatt Regency hotel, located on the waterfront in Jersey City, N.J., selected artworks created by Zohre Bairieva, administrative specialist of graduate programs at the School of Architecture and Design, for an exhibition in the hotel on November 1, 2025. The exhibition is a permanent display of works from local artists, including paintings, drawings, handmade accessories, jewelry, and other artisanal items.
Wei Zeng
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesWei Zeng, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published an article titled "," as the last author and one of the corresponding authors in Renewable Energy, a prestigious, high-impact, peer-reviewed journal. The article was published in the November 2025 issue.
Wenyao Hu
School of ManagementWenyao Hu, Ph.D., CFA, , assistant professor of accounting and finance at the School of Management, presented 鈥淢uted Transparency: The Unexpected Role of Free Speech Protection in Corporate Obfuscation鈥� at the in Vancouver on October 22, 2025. The study examines how state anti-SLAPP laws affect corporate disclosure practices. Using a difference-in-differences approach with earnings call transcripts, the research shows that firms increase language complexity after the enactment of these laws, especially those with greater flexibility or powerful CEOs.
Robert Amundsen
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesRobert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, presented 鈥淕rid Modernization: Infrastructure, Workforce and Reliability鈥� at the , October 16鈥�19, 2025, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented "Robert Lowell and The New Yorker" on the roundtable, "Midcentury Boston Poetic Infrastructures: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton" at the in Boston, Mass., October 9鈥�12, 2025. She also chaired the panel, "Archive as Infrastructure: Rerouting Modernist Paradigms." Golden served as a mentor for an early-career researcher at the conference, as part of a new program. Golden was a member of the conference organizing committee and is now vice president of the Modernist Studies Association. The conference marked the end of her year as second vice president, the first in a three-year term concluding with president.