Faculty kudos
Harpur College
The following Harpur College faculty have recently published books, or have them forthcoming:
• Alexi Zentner – English: The Hatching (July 2016)
• Dina Danon – Judaic Studies: Upcoming Manuscript The Jews of Izmir: A Modern History (summer 2017)
• Charles Goodman – Philosophy and Asian and Asian American Studies: The Training Anthology of Santideva: A Translation of the Siksa-samuccaya (2016)
• David Stahl – Asian Asian-American Studies: Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film (under final contract with Routledge Press)
• Anthony Ephirim-Donkor – Africana Studies: African Personality and Spirituality: The Role of Abosom and Human Essence (2016)
• Joshua Reno – Anthropology: Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill (2016)
• Nancy Um – Art History: Shipped but not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee (in press 2017)
• Karen-edis Barzman – Art History: The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Venetian Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference (in press 2017)
College of Community and Public Affairs
• Victoria Rizzo, associate professor and chair of social work, was invited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to participate in a planning meeting for a national consensus report on The Potential of the Social Work Profession to Improve the Nation’s Health. The meeting, held in November 2016, brought together a small group of experts to discuss current challenges and policy issues regarding the integration of social workers within interprofessional teams in the healthcare system and to consider whether a consensus study on this topic from the National Academies could help to address the social determinants of health and improve patient outcomes.
• Sarah Young, assistant professor of social work, was invited by the White House Rural Council to participate in a convening on Advancing LGBT Progress in Rural America. According to the convening description, the December 2016 meeting focused on “strategies to improve quality of life, increase opportunity and enhance connectivity for rural LGBT Americans.” This is Young’s fourth invited trip to the White House to discuss and advance LBGT issues. Her research focuses on LBBTQ+ people withing the context of schools and families.
Decker School of Nursing
• Judith Quaranta, assistant professor, and Nicole Rouhana, director of graduate programs and research assistant professor, were both elected to Distinguished Fellowship of the National Academies of Practice in Nursing. The celebration and recognition event was held in March.
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Associate Professor Hiroki Sayama was elected to the Executive Committee of the Complex Systems Society (CSS). CSS is the largest international society for the study of complex systems. Sayama will be serving a three-year term.
• “Constitutive Relations for Finite Element Modeling of SnAgCu in Thermal Cycling – How Wrong We Were!” by student authors Thaer Alghoul, Dustin Watson, Nardeeka Adams, Saif Khasawneh, and Farhan Batieha, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Christopher Greene and Professor Peter Borgesen of the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, was selected as Best Interactive Presentation Paper of The Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) 2016. The ECTC is the premier international organization bringing together experts in packaging, components and microelectric systems science, technology and education. The authors will be acknowledged in an awards ceremony at the next ECTC this spring.
• Associate Professor Sang Won Yoon and Assistant Professor Sung Hoon Chung of the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering and their students are participating in a new research opportunity in collaboration with the Raymond Corporation and Toyota. Their proposal on “Applying Location-based Informatics, Simulation and Optimization Methods to Forklift Driver Behavior, Congestion and Wireless Charging Studies” was one of only three projects to be funded, joining University of South Florida in the effort. Other successful proposals put forth were from Clemson University in collaboration with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University of California – Berkeley and University of Arkansas, as well as the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• Professor Kanad Ghose was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (in 2016)