Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her poem, "Youth Becoming," published on E-Verse Radio on January 14, 2019.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented on the roundtable Poetics and Annotation at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, January 3 – 6. The session was organized by the Forum on Poetry and Poetics.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was a speaker at the Modern Language Association's 2019 conference in Chicago, IL, on January 4, 2019. He spoke on a panel about the importance of cross-disciplinary scholar Katherine Hayles's work in the cross-discipline of science and literature.

Julie Gallanty, M.A., adjunct instructor of interdisciplinary studies, was elected to the Council of Certified Volunteer Administrators (CCVA) on December 31, 2018. She will work with the national board to elevate the work and professionalism in the volunteer profession.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her villanelle, "Demented Carousel," published on December 31, 20018, in Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, an anthology of villanelles, edited by Marilyn L. Taylor and James P. Roberts.

Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences, had an abstract, "Left-handed double-stranded Z-DNA Microarrays," published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, on December 13, 2018. The abstract, as presented at the 2018 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, is connected to his research, based on the Gagna/NYIT patent, for the next generation of DNA microarrays, where he is developing prototypes of double-stranded left-handed Z-DNA microarrays. Z-DNA is an alternative form of DNA that plays a major role in regulating human cells. These prototypes, which represent the next generation of DNA microarrays, will be part of an STTR-NIH grant to commercialize them as biomedical research products for sale to scientists to use in a variety of research projects.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, representing the Forum for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on December 13, 2018.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, "Happy Birthday, Scrooge!" online at Penn State University Press on December 3, 2018.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, launched the paperback publication of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton by University Press of Florida at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on November 28, 2018. The event, which included an introduction by Golden and readings by writers Deirdre Coyle, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Briallen Hopper, was live streamed to Facebook.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, served as a panelists at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLA) conference, SLSA 2018-Out of Mind, November 11-18, 2018, discusing their augmented reality app to teach Shakespeare, "Out of (Shakespeare’s) Mind and into the Classroom: Our Augmented Reality App for Teaching Hamlet.” Misak and LaGrandeur are currently developing and beta testing an Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone application to use in an English classroom to help college-level students experience Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a more intimate, immersed way.