Andrew Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral sciences, appeared on a Fox News Channel panelon February 15, 2020, discussing recent threats against NYPD by MS-13 gang members.

Jamel Vanderburg, adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, received the Brilliance Award on February 14, 2020 from Young People For. Vanderburg was given this award in honor of his dedication to civic engagement in the community and youth development.

Ben Ovryn, professor of physics, had his research article, "Modeling membrane nanotube morphology: the role of heterogeneity in composition and material properties," published in Scientific Reports, an open access, multidisciplinary journal from Nature Publishing Group, on February 13, 2020. His research, done in collaboration with scientists at University of California, is a theoretical description of the biophysical mechanisms that give rise to shaped membrane nanotubes. The results demonstrate that a delicate balance between the mechanical properties of the plasma membrane and local protein density governs the morphology of the membrane nanotube.

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published a peer-reviewed journal article abstract titled “Use of Microct Scanner to Characterize the Histotechnological Processing of Bone using Different Tissue Fixatives: Relationship to DNA Preservation (Immunohistochemistry)” in The Biophysics Journal on February 7, 2020. The article discusses how different tissue fixatives can be used to preserve different conformations of nucleic acids, such as right-handed double-stranded B-DNA and left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in the peer-reviewed journal, James Joyce Quarterly in an article titled “Clever, Very: Jonathan Goldman,” on February 6, 2020. Goldman was interviewed about his position as vice president and incoming president of the James Joyce Society.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, published her chapter, “Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad,” in A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 5, edited by Joyce Huff and Martha Stoddard Holmes. The book was published on February 6, 2020, by Bloomsbury Press.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, “How Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair,” in The Public Domain Review on February 6, 2020. The piece is a result of research for his site New York 1920: 100 Years Ago Today, a project sponsored by a two-year ISRC grant.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was invited to speak at the Ulrich Museum of Art of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas on emerging technology and art on February 6, 2020. In his talk,“Voices from the Vault,” he spoke about Brooklyn artist Lee Adler's artwork and the anticipated the bonding of humans and machines in the 21st century.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her poem, “Hold Me Like You'll Never Let Me Go,” a part of a theatre event, Let Lightning Set Us on Fire, a work of modern love to celebrate Valentine's Day on February 3, 2020 in New York City.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to be the “Narrating Disease” panel commentator at the “Feeling DIS/EASE” conference at the Max Planck Institute for Human Behavior, in Berlin, Germany, on January 30, 2020.