Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to share recent accomplishments from our faculty and staff members.

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, had his research paper, “Exact entanglement dynamics mediated by leaky optical cavities&,rdquo; published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics on May 27, 2020.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his article, “The New York City Overalls Parade, 1920,” published on CUNY's The Gotham Center for New York City History website on May 26, 2020. Goldman's article is an offshoot of his ISRC-Grant-sponsored project, “New York 1920: When We Became Modern."

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, discussed her book, Annotating Modernism, on the Plath & Co podcast, hosted by Eilish Mulholland on May 21, 2020.

Samuel Hedemann, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of physics, had his research article, “Correlance and discordance: computable measures of nonlocal correlation,” published on May 20, 2020 by Springer Science+Business Media. This paper, presents several highly useful results in quantum information, with applications extending across all technical fields. It defines several measures of nonlocal correlation in N-body systems, which are exactly computable for all states. In particular, the most general measure, called correlance, can detect all possible nonlocal correlation (including bound entanglement), and is also adapted for nonquantum data, with demonstrations showing that it completely outperforms traditional measures such as the Pearson correlation coefficient. Another measure, the discordance, is shown to be an attractive alternative to quantum discord, both in terms of computability and conceptual validity.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in the New York Public Library's Researcher Spotlight series on May 15, 2020, discussing his work on the “New York, 1920” project.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, has Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, published on May 14, 2020 by Routledge.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was an organizer and a referee for the annual Posthuman Global Symposium, held at New York University, New York on April 30 - May 2, 2020.

Niharika Nath, Ph.D, professor of biological and chemical sciences, was elected to be a Council Representative on the Executive Board of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) on April 27, 2020. This leadership opportunity gives New York Tech a voice at the national level and is a testament to Nath’s many years of service to CUR, her commitment to undergraduate education in general, and undergraduate research in particular. Nath will serve for a three-year term, beginning June 27, 2020.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, and Yixuan Sun, graduate student, had their article, "Modeling and design optimization for pleated membrane filters," published on April 27, 2020 in Physical Review Fluids. Their article speaks to the use of pleated membrane filters in a wide variety of applications.

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article abstract titled “MicroCT Scanner to Differentiate Histotechnological Processing of Bone Tissue Using Different Nucleic Acid‐Based Fixatives” in the April 2020 issue of The FASEB Journal. The article discusses how different histotechnological fixation of bone tissue can result in the preservation of canonical and exotic DNAs.