Marketing Expert Quoted in Quikly

Mar 17, 2022

Colleen Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of management and marketing studies, was quoted by the marketing site Quikly.com regarding why consumers seek simpler shopping experiences. As Kirk notes, if consumers have too many choices, they may feel less satisfaction from the buying process, which can prevent them from making a purchase altogether or questioning their decision later.

“With choice overload, the brain becomes cognitively burdened, and consumers engage in avoidance responses. They may just walk away rather than exert the effort needed to try to make the best choice for them. They may also end up being less satisfied with the choice they make because they continue to think about all the choices they gave up,” she says.

 

Local Media Covers New Registrar Announcement

Mar 11, 2022

Long Island Business News, InnovateLI and Newsday have covered the news of Ian K. White joining New York Tech as registrar. White joined New York Tech from Caldwell University in Caldwell, N.J., where he most recently was the assistant vice president for academic initiatives and infrastructure.

 

Major News Outlets Cover Animal Locomotion Research

Mar 08, 2022

A study co-authored by evolutionary biologist Michael Grantosky, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy at NYITCOM, finds that ancient ocean creatures may have galloped long before vertebrates did so on land. The findings have been featured in several prominent outlets including the New York Times, Daily Mail, Popular Science and others. As Granatosky notes in the New York Times, asymmetrical gaits are responsible for the high speeds achieved by cheetahs, greyhounds, and kangaroos. “That’s why so many people thought that these were purely mammalian innovations,” he says.

 

Geisler’s Killer Whale Findings Featured in the Media

Mar 07, 2022

As seen in Phys.org, Science Daily, InnovateLI, and others, a study co-authored by NYITCOM’s Jonathan Geisler, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of anatomy, provides vital clues on when killer whales began hunting other marine mammals. While killer whales are among the ocean’s fiercest predators—known to even hunt the blue whales, the largest creatures on earth—a fossil recently found on the Greek Island of Rhodes suggests that this behavior is likely a recent development. The study, which was published March 7 in Current Biology, also contradicts the popular evolutionary theory that large whales, like the blue whale, evolved giant bodies to avoid predation. 

 

New Co-op Track Previewed in LIBN

Mar 03, 2022

An article in Long Island Business News about employers’ needs for new ways to retain and train employees previewed New York Tech’s new co-op program in the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences. “Tech guru Peter Goldsmith recently began working with New York Institute of Technology, to build a pipeline of workers in the computer science field” to help employers find and groom talent in a variety of fields, the article reports. “The tech companies are really hurting,” Goldsmith said. They can’t find people with the right skills.”   

In describing the New York Tech co-op track, Goldsmith shared that students in the spring semester of their junior year or the fall of their senior year would spend six months, including the summer, working at a company, getting a full salary. “Ideally, the students when graduating ultimately net jobs by the employer, and stay on Long Island, fueling the tech sector,” he said.

 

Laurent Interview Featured in The DO

Mar 01, 2022

The DO interviewed NYITCOM’s Brookshield Laurent, D.O., associate professor and chair of clinical specialties, regarding the Delta Population Health Institute (DPHI), NYITCOM-Arkansas’s community outreach arm. In the Q&A, Laurent discusses the physician shortage in the Mississippi Delta region, policies to address healthcare disparities, and other topics highlighting NYITCOM-Arkansas’s dedication to improving the region’s health outcomes.

“If we can, from a policy perspective, support economic mobility and stability, social cohesion, educational advancement and encourage communities to think holistically about their health and health care, we can accomplish a lot,” says Laurent, who oversees DPHI initiatives. “The challenges are complex, deep and long-standing due to historic injustices. There is a lot of work to be done in the Delta. At the same time, I recognize the resiliency of the people who were here before NYITCOM-Arkansas, who have done great things and are committed to the health and well-being of their communities.”

 

News Outlets Publicize NIH Grant

Feb 28, 2022

As seen in News-Medical, InnovateLI, and other outlets, NYITCOM Biomedical Sciences Instructor Satoru Kobayashi, Ph.D., has secured a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The $428,400 three-year grant will support innovative research that could provide life-saving treatments for diabetic heart failure, a condition that occurs when excess blood sugar damages cardiovascular tissue, including the heart’s muscles.

 

Academic Achievements Featured in Students' Hometown Media Outlets

Feb 21, 2022

New York Tech students were featured in their hometown news outlets for being named to the Dean’s List and Presidential Honor List for fall 2021. Outlets that highlighted this news include Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Northeast Times, and Long Beach Patch, among many others.

To qualify for the Dean's List, full-time students must earn a GPA of at least 3.5 and complete 12 or more credit hours without any incomplete grades. Part-time students must achieve a minimum semester GPA of 3.6 or higher and complete six or more credits without any incomplete grades. To qualify for the Presidential Honor List, a student must achieve a minimum semester GPA of 3.7 and complete at least 12 credit hours without any incomplete grades.

 

News 12 Interviews Jarkon Regarding Mental Health and Wellness

Feb 20, 2022

News 12 interviewed Psychiatrist Liat Jarkon, D.O., director of the Center for Behavioral Health, in a segment about local efforts to combat anxiety and depression, including a Health and Wellness Fair organized by the Town of Smithtown. Jarkon notes that many people have experienced anxiety and depression since the beginning of the pandemic, and emphasizes that it is more important than ever for patients to continue speaking to their health care providers about mental health treatment.

 

Local Media Cover New York Tech’s Strong ROI for Low-Income Students

Feb 01, 2022

A new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce ranks New York Tech among the top two percent of U.S. colleges in terms of return on investment for low-income students.  Articles in The Island Now and InnovateLI highlight New York Tech’s strong ROI, tied at No. 72 among 3,410 U.S. institutions, including public and private, non- and for-profit institutions offering primarily certificate, associate, or bachelor’s degrees. Among other points of distinction, the articles note that New York Tech had the strongest ROI showing among all Long Island colleges and ranked No. 9 among 216 New York State colleges included in the report.