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.
Kate E. O'Hara
Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Theory into Practice: Implementing a Humanistic Approach" at the in Savannah, Georgia, on March 1, 2022. In her interactive presentation, O鈥橦ara shared details of instructional design for implementing a humanistic approach that provides undergraduate students with opportunities for learning about subject matter that is of personal interest and applicable to the "real world," fostering students' desire to learn while teaching them how to learn, as well as tips on how to design meaningful holistic, project-based instructional activities within fully online and hybrid environments.
Hyun-Tae Jung
School of Architecture and DesignHyun-Tae Jung, Ph.D., associate professor of architecture, appeared in Global City Seoul: Part 2, as a part of the "Sunday Special" documentary series by the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), on February 27, 2022.
Robert Amundsen
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesRobert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, presented 鈥淒isguised Infrastructure: Minimizing Visual Impacts鈥� at the , on February 27, 2022.
Briana Bronchick
Strategic CommunicationsBriana Bronchick, director of marketing, was featured in a case study titled in which 91社区 was highlighted for using Hulu鈥檚 new ad management tool to enhance awareness and drive registrations to virtual Open House events, on February 22, 2022. Briana was one of the first users of this tool, which allowed us to be very targeted in reaching our primary audiences of prospective students and parents through the streaming TV space.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, to Cambridge Core's Journal of Plasma Physics, on February 22, 2022. Bhattacharjee's work outlines the fluid velocity profile in a rotating self-gravitating star in presence of a "magnetic-type" gravitational field.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, published her research paper entitled "It's Not Fair! Consumers' Reactions to Sharing Platforms when They Get Reviewed" in the proceedings of the , on February 19, 2022.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his abstract, in the Biophysical Journal, on February 11, 2022. The abstract describes a novel method which demonstrated, for the first time, the spatial genomic organization of three different DNAs concurrently in human tissues; a technique that will help researchers better understand gene expression.
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College of Arts & Sciences HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk on hosted virtually by Bedlam Book Cafe. The event was also the paperback launch of Golden's monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, on February 11, 2022.
Wenjia Li
CoECS/Computer ScienceWenjia Li, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, has recently published a conference paper titled on February 10, 2022. In this paper, co-authored by Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, an NSF REU student that he advised during the summer of 2021, they propose a deep learning-based approach to identify malware for the Android system in the presence of adversarial example attacks. This research is partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant (No. CNS-1852316).
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his article, concerning a new approach to cancer research, based on the work of the famous biochemist, Otto H. Warburg, and his hypothesis, i.e., the Warburg Effect, in Skinmed on February 3, 2022. The article focuses on how this approach to determine the origins of human cancer, which are still not fully understood, applies to pathologies of human skin.