Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had his poem, “Next Door to Nowhere,” published in The American Journal of Poetry on December 26, 2019.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had his poem, “Duties Include (Ars Poetica),” published in Cimarron Review on December 10, 2019.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had an article, “Membrane filtration with multiple fouling mechanisms,” published on December 3, 2019 in the Physical Review Fluids. The article, written in collaboration with Linda J. Cummings, professor of mathematical sciences, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, details their simplified mathematical model which characterizes membrane internal pore structure via permeability or resistance gradients in the depth of the membrane, accounts for multiple membrane fouling mechanisms (adsorption, blocking, and cake formation), defines a measure of filter performance, and for given operating conditions, is able to predict the optimum permeability or resistance profile for the chosen performance measure.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, presented a talk and chaired a session on the effects of particles diffusion and membrane pore elasticity on membrane filtration performance at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics on November 26, 2019.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered remarks in a book roundtable celebrating the publication of Black Madness: Mad Blackness, with author Therí Alyce Pickens, at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, in New York City on November 12, 2019.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a poster about "Experimental Engagements" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of California in Irvine, California on November 9, 2019.

Terry Nauheim, M.F.A., associate professor of digital art and design, Michael Hosenfeld, associate professor of digital art and design, Paul Demonte, M.A., adjunct instructor of communication arts, Adrienne McNally, M.S., director of experiential education, and Amy Bravo, M.A., senior director of international and experiential education, presented at AACU's Transforming STEM Higher Education conference on November 9, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Their presentation, “Strategies for Reforming Academic Models to Support Community Partnership,” spoke about Ready for Take-Off, a student-driven documentary film project that raises public awareness about flight, mobility, and advancement for people with disabilities. Ready for Take-Off engaged students and faculty of New York Tech to produce a short documentary film, commemorating the fifth anniversary of a JetBlue flight for disabled high school students of the Henry Viscardi School of the Viscardi Center.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English presented “An AR Hamlet Mystery” at the Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, in Irvine, California on October 31, 2019.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of Englisha and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered her paper, “Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: Sylvia Plath’s Experimental Engagements with Spoiled Identities,” at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts annual conference in Irvine, California, on November 8, 2019.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored an article with Hamed Behzad, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, titled “On optimizing the wave energy converters configuration in a farm,” published on November 6, 2019, about how finite arrays of bottom-hinged flap-type wave energy converters are modeled using a numerical approach. The converters are similar to the ones from Aquamarine Power, which is called Oyster, using ANSYS-AQWA as software for numerical simulation. The goal of this study is to optimize the annual energy absorption of a farm depending on the lateral and vertical spacing between converters based on a wave-spectrum case study.