Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was recently awarded an NEH grant to participate in an Object Lessons writer's workshop to teach academics—particularly those whose subject is technology—how to write for the popular press. The workshop was held November 7–8, 2017, in Phoenix, AZ.

Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, participated in an invited panel, "Transforming Higher Education through Transdisciplinary Action Research and Advocacy," at the 40th Annual Fulbright Conference held on November 5, 2017, in Washington, DC.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented "Unprinted Pages: Recovering Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Play" with her NYIT students, Rebekah Geevarghese and Uzma Patel, at Fordham University's Transnational Print Culture Conference in October 2017. The presentation addressed the Irish writer Edna O'Brien's unpublished drafts of what was probably a screenplay about the American poet Sylvia Plath. Thanks to a Student-Faculty Collaboration Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, the students spent the summer creating a digital project interpreting these materials, working from scans of O'Brien's manuscripts and typescripts housed in Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, moderated the panel, "MIL Revolutionizing the Learning Process" at UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica on October 26, 2017. The theme of the conference was "Media and Information Literacy in Critical Times: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Information Environments." The session explored the potential and capacity of MIL to create new ways of learning in various learning environments, online and offline, as well as the challenges faced.

Richard Pizer, Ph.D., professor of life sciences, had a peer-reviewed research paper, "Boron Acid Complexation Reactions with Polyols and A-Hydroxy Carboxylic Acids: Equilibria, Reaction Mechanisms, Saccharide Recognition" published by Elsevier's ScienceDirect in October 2017.

Daniel Cinotti, Ph.D., assistant professor of school counseling, was featured on The Academic Minute, a radio show airing on NPR's Albany-based affiliate WAMC. The segment, discussing bullying of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) students, was also posted to the Inside Higher Ed website, where it is accessible by a national audience of nearly one million listeners. Additionally, assistant director of campus life, Justin Beauchamp, interviewed Cinotti during a Facebook Live session hosted by NYIT. The interview was a continuation of The Academic Minute spot and featured questions pertaining to identifying and preventing bullying of LGBTQ students.

Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, won the Best Paper Presenter Award at the 2017 International Research and Education Conference for her paper entitled "Uses of SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment) to Enact Student-Generated Questioning Practices in the Science Classroom." The conference, hosted by the Association of Filipino Teachers in Eastern America, was held October 27–31 in New York City. Hsu had previously given a similar lecture at Math for America for Master Teachers of Math and Science (MfA) in September 2017, also in New York.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had two poems published in The Ekphrastic Review, which features poetry written in response to visual works. DiMatteo's poems, "River of Light" and "Fake Sun," were based on works by Caravaggio and Edward Hopper, respectively.

Christian R. Pongratz, M.Arch., professor and interim dean of NYIT School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education, was a panel speaker in "WHAT: StN | Behind the Rock (tectonic alchemy)," at the Center for Architecture, New York, organized by the AIA NY Global Dialogues Committee, where he presented his professional design work and discussed the latent potentials in the design with stone as a performative but also emotional building element.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, had an excerpt from her new book posted in "Discussing Anne Sexton: An NYPL Roundtable and Excerpt from This Business of Words" on The Florida Bookshelf, a blog by the University Press of Florida (September 7, 2017). Golden also presented a paper, "On Manuscripts: Virginia Woolf and Archives," in Reading, England at the Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 29 – July 2, 2017.