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

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was interviewed on March 28, 2018 on The Mason Vera Paine Show, WGN Radio (720 AM), about working with robots and AI’s effects on the world economy.

Joanne Grasso, D.A., adjunct associate professor of social sciences, presented her paper, "George Washington and New York City: The New Federal Government," on March 24, 2018, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government, held at the Robert C. Byrd Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had three of her poems included in Jiggery-Pokery Semicentennial, an anthology of the verse form known as double dactyls, published by The Waywiser Press (UK) on March 15, 2018. Double dactyls are amusing or inventive eight-line poems, often about a particular historical or literary figure, that must adhere to metrical and other requirements first laid down by John Hollander and Anthony Hecht in a similar anthology 50 years ago.

John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, had his article, "Using Art to Help the Police Understand Racism," published in the special Museums section of The New York Times on March 9, 2018.

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, spoke on a panel, "VR-AR Production on Edge—The Amazing Journey of Imagination: Storytelling in Content and Advertising," at the Digital Hollywood Conference Media Summit on March 8, 2018, in New York City. Rogoff spoke about the Endanger VR game series, partially developed on an interdisciplinary grant from NYIT to develop a game series to find and save Endangered Species, worldwide.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had two of her poems, "To the Know-It-All," and "America," published at New Verse News on January 12 and March 1, 2018, respectively.

John Hanc, M.A., associate professor of communication arts, had his article, "You Can't Be Afraid of the Tech," published in The New York Times on February 28, 2018. The article, which was featured in a special Retirement section, focused on older adults who had found second careers in tech-related jobs.

Daniel Cinotti, Ph.D., assistant professor of school counseling, was part of a research team that published the article "Collecting School Counseling Group Work Data: Initiating Consensual Qualitative Research Through Practitioner-Researcher Partnerships" in The Journal for Specialists in Group Work on February 16. The article describes the use of an innovative research methodology called "Consensual Qualitative Research" or "CQR" to explore the experiences of interns conducting group counseling in schools. The project was funded by a grant from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had selections from her recent book, Drugstore Blue, translated into Italian by Caterina Roversi and published in the Italian literary magazine clanDestino Rivista on February 7, 2018.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, contributed a chapter, “Art and the Posthuman,” to the book Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, edited by Michael Bess and Diana Walsh Pasulka, and published by Macmillan Reference USA in January 2018.