2023
2024
achievements listed in this booklet were compiled by the deans of the academic schools within SUNY Old Westbury. This collection encompasses scholarly achievements during the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024
A Message from the Provost
Dear Reader,
At SUNY Old Westbury, we take great pride in being a student-centered campus devoted to academic excellence, social justice, and intercultural understanding. That commitment to mission leads our faculty to excel in the classroom, providing high-quality learning experiences that promote students’ success in their careers and in their lives.
But it also motivates our faculty to seek excellence beyond the classroom, engaging in research, service, and creative activities that enrich our campus, expand the frontiers of knowledge, build social capital, and bring understanding to bear on many of the most important social, political, scientific, and economic issues facing our society.
In the following pages, you will learn about the many accomplishments of an outstanding community of teacher-scholars whose work is relevant, powerful, and engaged. SUNY Old Westbury faculty members are leaders in their fields, and their work has won regional, national, and even international acclaim.
More importantly, their efforts are geared toward making the world a better, more just, and more sustainable place.
We are very proud of the amazing work that our faculty do, and whether you are a member of the SUNY Old Westbury community, an alumnus, or a friend of the University, we know you will be proud, too!
Provost
David J. Lanoue, Ph.D. Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Books
Catherine Bernard, Professor, Visual Arts
• Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous Lands of the Americas. United Kingdom, Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.
Elizabeth Schmermund, Assistant Professor, English
• Alexander the Great, Finished Line Press, 2024.
Sarah Smith, Associate Professor, Public Health
• Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam. Rutgers University Press, 2023.
Books contributed to
Lillian Park, Associate Professor, Psychology
• “How to Influence People’s Perception of Physical Attractiveness,” in C. Balakrishnan & M. Wasoski (Eds.), How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi, November 2023.
Chelsea Shields-Más, Assistant Professor, History & Philosophy
• “The Northern Limits of Norman Power: Border Policies in Northumbria, c.1050–1100,” in Borders and the Norman World. Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe, edited by Daniel Armstrong, Áron Kecskés, Charlie C. Rozier and Leonie V. Hicks, 2023
Shorter publications
Kyle Anderson, Associate Professor, History & Philosophy
• “Markets of Civilization, Islam and Racial capitalism in Algeria” review essay, Journal of History, 2024, p. 215-218.
Annessa Babic, Adjunct Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “ ‘For God and Country’: The American Legion, the Solider, the Veteran, and Battlefield Tourism during the Vietnam War (1956-1975),” War in Travel Literature, 2023
Erik Benau, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Lesly E. Esobar, Kostas P. Mandelos, Sophia R. Ferraro-Diglio, and Blessy M. Abraham, student co-authors
• “Reduced attentional control in individuals with a history of suicide attempts compared to those with suicidal ideation: Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis,” Journal of Affective Disorders. 349, 2024.
Jesse Curran, Lecturer, English
• “The Bluebird Word and one in Club Plum,” the bluebirdword.com.
• “Autumn Joy,” The Rockvale Review.com
• Reflection on the playwright Sarah Ruhl, Litbreak.
• “My Bulk of Books,” Allium
• “Her beloved flip phone,” Press Pause Press.
• “Night Spirit,” “White Cloud,” and “Seashell,” poems published in Swifts & Slows,
• “After the Storm, Silver and Green (Vault Sky),” poem published in Boasts Against the Current
Michael Colaneri, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Physics
• “Crystal structure of Methanococcus jannaschii dihydroorotase,” Proteins. 91.1, 2023.
John Friedman, Associate Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “LI Anxiety about Oppenheimer’s A-bomb,” Newsday, July 30, 2023.
Ruomei Gao, Associate Professor Chemistry
Judith Lloyd, Professor Emerita, Chemistry
Jody Cardinal, Director, Writing Center
• “Argumentative writing Workshop for Conceptual Learning and Weekly writing for Knowledge Application in Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories,” Journal of College Science Teaching, March 11, 2024.
Karl Grossman, Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak,” joined environmental activist and author Alec Baldwin in a discussion at the world premiere documentary, Hamptons International Film Festival, October 2023.
• “50 Years of Fighting For Truth: “LI Journalists keep up struggle for press freedom,” Manhattan Jewish Sentinel and Long Island Jewish World.
• “Urgent Calls for Action as Nuclear Threats Resurface in the 21st Century,” Long Island Press, February 18, 2024.
• “Strong Journalistic History,” East Hampton Press, Southampton Press, Sag Harbor Express, 27East, January 2024.
• “The Electronic Narcotic,” The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express
• Reviews of Oppenheimer, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR); “Dowling College Campus ‘Shameful Condition,’” 27east.
• “The Fukushima disaster: The hidden side of the story” Nation of Change.
• “Environment” column, Fire Island News.
• “The Women of Three Mile Island,” CounterPunch.
Christopher Hartmann, Associate Professor, Public Health
• “Independent Recyclers in New York City: Sector profile and pathways to inclusion (research study),” funded by: Hispanic Federation, 2023.
Curtis Holland, Assistant Professor, Sociology
• “Class, Identity, Integration, and the Two-Tiered Peace Process” Treatises and Documents: Journal of Ethnic Studies.
Peter Ikeler, Associate Professor, Sociology
• “Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation,” Critical Sociology.
Seojung Jung, Associate Professor, Psychology
• “Perceptions of successful aging among Asian Americans,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 2024.
Lorenz Neuwirth, Professor, Psychology
• Neuwirth, L.S. & Emenike, B.U. Low-energy Confirmations of Taurine And Its Derivatives at The B3LYP-D3/631+G9d) Level of Theory Using The Spartan Program Applied to The Treatment of Neurodevelopmental Lead Poisoning, invention, 2024.
• Yokoyama, K. & Neuwirth, L.S. Surface enhanced Raman scattering methods for detecting amyloid beta in the Cohen’s Alzheimer’s disease rat model with gold colloid aggregates, invention, 2023
• Ros, M. & Neuwirth, L.S. “Immersion Dans Les Réalités Étendues – Outil De Formation VR Et Spécificités Du 180-FPV,” Maitrise Orthopedique, 328, p. 1-12, 2023.
• Neuwirth, L.S., Vasquez, M.A.*, Mian, M.*, Gagliardi, A.M.*, Emenike, B.U., & Markowitz, M.E. (2024). Evaluating the shared developmental neuropathological traits between autism and environmental lead exposures: Insights into convergent sulfur-dependent neurobiological mechanisms. In: A. El Idrissi & D.P. McCloskey (Eds.): Neurobiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer Nature. Manuscript accepted.
• Neuwirth, L.S. & Whigham, K. “The underexplored impacts of lead poisoning and COVID-19 in New York. Implications for a two-hit hypothesis amongst a pre-existing array of adverse childhood experiences that only time will tell,” Youth, 3(4), p. 1212-1224, 2023.
• Zhu, W., Neuwirth, L.S. & Cadet, P. “Regulation of the endogenous opiate pathway against oxidative stress and inflammation: Implications for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease,” Pharmacology Karger, p. 1-15, 2023.
• Neuwirth, L.S., Gökhan, N., Kaye, S. & Meehan, E.F. “Taurine supplementation for 48-months improved glucose tolerance and changed APT-related enzymes in avians,” Pharmacology Karger, p. 1-8, 2023.
• Yokoyama, K., Thomas, J.*, Ardner, W.*, Kieft, M.*, Neuwirth, L.S., & Liu, W. “An approach for In-Situ detection of amyloid formations within the hippocampus of the Cohen’s Alzheimer’s disease rat model by surface enhanced Raman scattering methods,” Neuroscience Research Methods, 2023.
• Chagas, A.M., Canli, T., Ziadlou, D., Forlano, P.M., Samaddar, S., Chua, E., Baskerville, K.A., Poon, K., & Neuwirth, L.S. “Using open neuroscience to advance equity in the pedagogy and research infrastructure in Colleges/Universities still financially impacted by COVID-19: The emergence of a global resource network aimed at integrating neuroscience and society,” The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 2023.
• Neuwirth, L.S., El Idrissi, A., Atsuo, F., & Klib, W. “The role of GABA-shift in neurodevelopment and psychiatric disorders,” Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 16: 1162689, 2023.
• Zhu, W., Cadet, P., & Neuwirth, L.S. “Bio-active chemicals in Helianthus tuberosus L may reduce beta-amyloid cytotoxicity as a potential novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease,” Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Vol. 77, Elsevier, 2023.
• Cabañas, E.*, Cruz, G.B*., Vasquez, M.A*., Joseph, J.N.*, Clarke, E.*, Emenike, B.U., Cadet, P., Zhu, W., Mekawy, N.*, El Idrissi, A., Markowitz, M.E. & Neuwirth, L.S. “Dietary effects of lead as a neurotoxin,” Diet and Nutrition in Neurological Disorders,” Elsevier, 2023.
• Neuwirth, L.S. & Emenike, B. “Taurine in symptom amelioration and recovery in lead induced neurotoxicity. In C. Martin (Ed.)” Treatments, Nutraceuticals, Supplements, and Herbal Medicine in Neurological Disorders,” Elsevier, 2023.
Kinning Poon
• Chagas, A.M., Canli, T., Ziadlou, D., Forlano, P.M., Samaddar, S., Chua, E., Baskerville, K.A., Poon, K., & Neuwirth, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, L.S. “Using open neuroscience to advance equity in the pedagogy and research infrastructure in Colleges/Universities still financially impacted by COVID-19: The emergence of a global resource network aimed at integrating neuroscience and society,” The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 2023
Carol Quirke, Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “My Great Uncle Was Shot at the Memorial Day Massacre. Why Was This Working-Class History Silenced?” In These Times, 2023.
Bianca Rivera, Assistant Professor, Public Health
• “One-Year Association of Drug Possession Law Change with Fatal Drug Overdose in Oregon and Washington,” JAMA Psychiatry, 2023.
Chelsea Shields-Más, Assistant Professor, History & Philosophy
• “The Sheriffs of Edward the Confessor,” Anglo-Norman Studies 45, 2023.
Jessica Williams-DeLuca, Assistant Professor, English
• “The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Edited by Nicholas Carnes, Lilly J. Goren (review),” The Journal of Popular Culture, December 2023.
• “Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies (review),” The Journal of Popular Culture, December 2023.
Grants
Zulema Cabail, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
• Early Career Travel Award to attend the HSI STEM Adelante Networking Conference/Retreat.
• Full travel award to present her research in the conference Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB-EMBO Meeting
Matt Lippert, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Physics
• NSF research grant, $120,000.
Samara Smith, Associate Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
Laura Chipley, Associate Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• $100,000 grant, National Endowment for the Humanities for their Digital Projects for the Public project “Virtual Aquapolis.”
Presentations
Ozgur Akgun, Assistant Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
Lisa Payton, Assistant Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
Samara Smith, Associate Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “Addressing the Lack of Diversity in the Media Industry and Bridging the Gap through Curriculum,” Annual Conference SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Curriculum Conference: Building a Community of Practice, Albany, November 2023.
Kyle Anderson, Associate Professor, History & Philosophy
• “Egypt and the Global Freedom Struggle: Failed Radicals in the Long Revolution, 1830s-1920s,” Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, Montreal, November 2023.
Annessa Babic, Adjunct Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “A Cultural Triangle: Empowered Women and the Traveler’s Gaze Along the Aegean and the Mediterranean Coasts,” Kentucky Wesleyan College.
Betty Berbari, SAS Assistant Dean and adjunct professor, Math
Meredith Bernstein, Math Redesign Coordinator
• “Math Enrichment Program,” SUNY Center for Professional Development, Student Success Summit, 2023.
Zulema Cabail, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
• Co-lead a Teaching and Pedagogy Workshop for graduate students, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• “The role of meta-inflammation in prostate cancer invasiveness,” RISE Seminar Series of Universidad Central del Caribe, August 2023.
Laura Chipley, Associate Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
Samara Smith, Associate Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “VR strategies + ecological hope/lessness: From established to emergent: radical perspectives and aesthetics in VR,” VR’s Wild Hope: Performance and Virtual Reality Working Group, The American Society for Theatre Research 2023 Annual Conference.
Marty Cooper, Associate Professor, Psychology
• “Aspects of ageism among LGBTQIA+ individuals,” Family Connections, Culture Connections Conference, 2023.
• Panel presentation, discussion on the work that is being done through NYU Postdoc with students from the American University of Afghanistan whose institution was taken over by the Taliban, International Psychological Association’s 53rd Congress in Cartagena, Columbia, July 2023.
• Lyons, L., Schwartz-Cooney, A., Cooper, M.A. “Love, loss and terror: work with Afghan students and refugees (panel presentation),” International Psychoanalytic Association 53rd Congress. Cartagena, Columbia, July 2023.
Jesse Curran, Lecturer, English
• “Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History,” hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum in collaboration with The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, June 2024.
Bright Emenike, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Physics
• presented his research on modeling hydrogen-bond solvation using molecular torsion balances at the Gordon Research Conference on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors.
Keisha Goode, Assistant Professor, Sociology
• “Birthing, Blackness and the Body: Black Midwives and the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice,” 94th Annual Eastern Sociological Society Conference.
Karl Grossman, Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “A World Without Nuclear Weapons is Possible and Necessary,” Long Island Metro Business Action.
• “Let Us Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Before They Eliminate Us,” Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, New York.
Jacob Heller, Professor, Sociology
• “Eloquent Informants – Fiction as Sociological Data,” 94th Annual Eastern Sociological Society Conference.
Peter Ikeler, Associate Professor, Sociology
• “Nostalgic Resignation: Working-Class Characters in Neoliberal Film,” Working Class Studies Symposium, Chicago, 2023. With Jefferson Charles’18 (sociology).
Youngjoo Kim Associate, Professor, Chemistry and Physics
• “Effect of JTT-551 inhibitor on the catalytic activity of wild type and mutant forms of PTP1B,” DiscoverBMB annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Andrew O’Bannon, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Physics
• “Exact Approaches to low-supersymetry AdS.CFT,” Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook.
Kevin Ozgercin, Associate Professor, Politics, Economics and Law
• “Building a Case for U.S. Reparations (with Robin Rue Simmons),” 2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, United Nations, May 2023.
Diana Papademas, Associate Professor, Sociology
• “Youth and Suicide in American Cinema by Alessandra Seggi (critical review),” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference.
Carol Quirke, Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• “Feminism’s ‘Official Photographer:’ Bettye Lane, News Photography and Contemporary Feminism, 1970-1986,” Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations conference, University of Ghent.
Chelsea Shields-Más, Assistant Professor, History and Philosophy
• “Remembering women and their reeves in early medieval England,” 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
• “The office of ‘reeve’ in Domesday Book,” at Status, Rank, or Office? Social Boundaries in England, 900–1200, Durham University, UK, 2023.
• “Bought loyalty? The reeves of Æthelred II,” Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2023.
Sarah Smith, Associate Professor, Public Health
• “Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam,” SUNY Old Westbury, 2024.
Jessica Williams, Assistant Professor, English
• “’the moon is queen of everything’: The Moon in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton,” Southwest Popular & American Culture Association (SWPACA) Summer Salon Virtual Conference.
Exhibitions and Creative Work
Jesse Curran, Lecturer, English
• “Dove’s Long Island,” poem selected for inclusion on Long Island’s first Poetry Path, Northport Village Poetry Path, Northport Village Park.
Fred Fleisher, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
• “SPRING/BREAK Art show of Don Porcella / Garden Party,” Los Angeles Collection, February 24-March 5, 2024, Manhattan, New York.
• “SPRING/BREAK Art Show’s “Secret Show,” May Art Weeks in Manhattan, New York.
• Art featured at the exhibition “Bohemian” at Van Der Plas Gallery in Manhattan, New York.
Patricia McLaughlin, Professor, Visual Arts
• “The Femme Digital” exhibition, Dineen Hull Gallery, Hudson County Community College.
Kathleen O’Connor-Bater, Associate Professor, Modern Languages
• “Musical Magic!,” Washington Balalaika Society Orchestra, November 2023.
Marcela Torres, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
• “The Flow of mud/barro.” Recess, December 14, 2023-February 4, 2024.
• Community Potluck, The flow of mud/barro, Recess, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2024.
• TEACHING AT THE END OF TIMES (Group Show), Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, October 7-29, 2023.
• The flow of mud/barro (Lead Artist), December 14, 2023–February 4, 2024, Recess, Brooklyn, New York.
• Rituals On The Run, TEACHING AT THE END OF TIMES, Exhibition at Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 14, 2023.
• FIELD GUIDE: HARVEST FIRE FEAST, Socrates Sculpture Park, October 21, 2023.
• Rituals On The Run, TEACHING AT THE END OF TIMES, Exhibition at Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2023.
• Community Brick Making and Soil Altars, The flow of mud/barro, Recess, Brooklyn, NY, December 16, 2023.
Hyewon Yi, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
• “Charged,” curator, AHL Foundation, New York, NY, July 2024.
Awards, Honors & Other Distinctions
Zulema Cabail, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
• Visiting Faculty Program Participant, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Summer 2024
Marty Cooper, Associate Professor, Psychology interviewed for several articles:
• Mayer, B.A. (2023, October), ”12 common habits of people with high emotional intelligence, according to psychologists,” Parade
• Mayer, B.A. (2023, October). “12 phrases to use when someone Is ‘talking down’ to you—and why they work, according to psychologists,” Parade
• Mayer, B.A. (2023, September), “15 phrases to disagree respectfully, according to psychologists,”Parade
• West, M. (2023, August), “ What is emotional self-harm?,” MedicalNewsToday.
• Skladany, J. (2023, November), “5 tips to avoid mental burnout this holiday season, “ Teach:able
Jesse Curran, Lecturer, English
• 2023 William Cullen Bryant Poet-in-Residence Award, Friends of Cedarmere.
Danielle Lee, Assistant Professor, English
• Fellow, SUNY Black Leadership Institute (among inaugural group selected to participate).
• Honorable Mention, 2023 English Journal Edwin M. Hopkins Award for her article “Affirming Gender Diversity Through English Education: Integration, Inquiry, And Inclusion”
Karl Grossman, Professor, American Studies/Media & Communications
• 2024 Horace Mann Award, Antioch College Alumni Association.
Christopher Hartmann, Associate Professor, Public Health
• “New Yorker of the Week,” Spectrum News NY1 (for volunteer efforts with Sure We Can, a nonprofit redemption center and community hub based in Brooklyn, New York).
Sylvie Kandé, Associate Professor, History and Philosophy
• 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
Fred Millan, Distinguished Service Professor, Psychology
• 2023 Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award for Practice, National Register of Health Service Psychologists.
Lorenz Neuwirth, Professor, Psychology
• 2023 Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, Nu Rho Psi, the National Honor Society in Neuroscience.
Shameika Williams, Assistant Professor, Public Health
• Maternal Child Health Faculty Fellowship, National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center.
Officers of Academic, Community, Professional
Organizations/Other
Keisha Goode, Assistant Professor, Sociology
• Board Member, Midwifery Committee, Maternal Health Taskforce
Joseph Manfredi, Lecturer, American Studies/Media & Communications
• Judge, Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Awards in association with Baylor University.
• Judge, 2023 Arkansas College Media Association in spot news photo and social media breaking news categories.
• Judge, National Edward R. Murrow Awards for national radio stations in excellence in sound and continuing coverage categories
Lorenz Neuwirth, Professor, Psychology
• Member, New York State Advisory Council on Lead Poisoning Prevention
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Publications
Patrick O’Brien, Assistant Professor, Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law
• “Bolster Your Emotional Intelligence for Personal Success and a Positive Workplace” with A. Stampone, Pennsylvania CPA Journal, 95 (1): 22-25, 2024.
• “The Course Letter Grade Calculator: A Supplement to Midsemester Grades,” with A. Burke, and R. Polimeni, R., The Accounting Educator’s Journal, 33 (1): 83-97, 2023.
• “The Current Landscape of GHG Emissions Disclosure,” with K. Bakarich and D. Baranek, Accepted for publication at The CPA Journal, 2024.
Kasia Platt, Associate Professor, Management, Marketing, and Finance
Frank Sanacory, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Computer and Information Science
Elena Smirnova, Associate Professor, Management, Marketing, and Finance
• “Block Share Purchases and Firm Performance” (with Mariola, E.), New York Economic Review, vol. 53, 127-150, 2023.
Presentations
Wen-Wen Chien, Associate Professor, Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law
Roger Mayer, Associate Professor, Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law
• “Transitioning to international public sector accounting standards in emerging market countries,” 2024 Government and Nonprofit Section American Accounting Association Midyear Meeting, Norwalk, Connecticut, March 2024.
• “Hedging of exchange rate risks,” with G. Wanga, The Qualitative Report 15th Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 2024.
• “Hedging of exchange rate risks,” with G. Wanga, 20th Biennial Conference of the Eastern Academy of Management International, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2024.
• “Increasing organizational value of a private healthcare education academy,” with D. Skaff and C. Shao, 20th Biennial Conference of the Eastern Academy of Management International, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2024.
• “Strategies to improve hospital patient satisfaction to increase performance-based reimbursements,” with C. Silla, The Qualitative Report 15th Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 2024.
• “Increasing organizational value of a private healthcare education academy,” with D. Skaff and C. Shao, The Qualitative Report 15th Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 2024.
Elena Smirnova, Associate Professor, Management, Marketing, and Finance
Zhihong Shi, Associate Professor, Management, Marketing, and Finance
• “Entrepreneurship with celebrity immersion,” with S. Simms and C. Castro-Andrade, Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2024).
Officer of Academic, Community Professional Organizations/Other
Patrick E. O’Brien Assistant Professor, Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law
• Reviewer, Accounting Research Journal manuscript submitted in April 2024
Elena Smirnova, Associate Professor, Management, Marketing, and Finance
• Board of Directors of the New York State Economic Association (Regional), Chair of the Program Committee for 2023 NYSEA annual conference held at SUNY Old Westbury.
• Session organizer and moderator. 2024 Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (National).
• Discussant. 2024 Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (National). Discussant of a pedagogical paper titled “Introducing Feedback Models in Economics Curriculum” by Oleg Pavlov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Book Chapter in Press
Amy Hsu, Associate Professor, Childhood Education & Literacy
• “Take a Stand”: Engaging Teacher Education Students in the Physicality of Learning,” published in Baecher, L., Portnoy, L. (eds) “Playful Pedagogy in Higher Education. Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, vol 14,” Springer, Cham, 2024.
Nicole Sieben Chair of Adolescence Education, Associate Professor
• “An introduction to writing hope found: Hope moments realized,” published in “Writing hope found in uncertain times: Teaching English language arts in search of hope moments,” Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2024.
• “Writing hope and the framework that follows,” published in “Writing hope found in uncertain times: Teaching English language arts in search of hope moments,” Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2024.
• “Writing workshop communities of practice in teacher education courses,” published in “Writing hope found in uncertain times: Teaching English language arts in search of hope moments,” Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2024.
Fernando Espinoza, Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Science Education
• “Time as a Field: envisioning its qualitative and quantitative aspects,” published in “Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time,” Springer, 2024.
Shorter Publications
Carolina Bustamante, Associate Professor, Spanish Education Coordinator
• “Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges,” with M. Novella, Foreign Language Annals, 2023.
• “Monográfico: Competencia digital, TPACK y ética tecnológica: Retos para la Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento (SIC) / Digital competency, TPACK, and technological ethics: Challenges for the Information and Knowledge Society (IKS), with Trigueros Gomez, Bordón, Revista de Pedagogía, 2023.
• “New perspectives on teacher preparation in digital competencies,” with Trigueros Gomez, Bordón, Revista de Pedagogía, 2023.
Xavier Marechaux, Associate Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Programs in History Education
• “Pie VII, le pape qui defia Napoleon [Pius VII, The pope who defied Napoleon], “ Passes/Composes, May 2024.
Nicole Sieben, Chair of Adolescence Education, Associate Professor
• “Writing hope found in uncertain times: Teaching English language arts in search of hope moments (editor),” Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2024.
Presentations
Carolina Bustamante, Associate Professor, Spanish Education Coordinator
• “Getting to Know your Heritage Language Learners: Basic Sociolinguistic Concepts and Teaching Approaches,” Voices United Conference by the Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages of the New York State Education Department, New York, New York, December 2023.
• “Los hablantes de herencia como maestros de español en el bachillerato: Retos y necesidades (Heritage Speakers as Teachers of Spanish at the Secondary Level: Challenges and Needs),” with M. Novella, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. November 2023.
• “Pre-Service Teachers Meet World Language Chairs,” with W. Anderson, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, New York, February 2024.
Fernando Espinoza, Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Science Education
• “An Inquiry-Based Instructional Model to Teach Scientific Concepts Using Time as a Field: Examples from Biology and Physics,” Hofstra University Teaching and Learning Conference, January 2024.
Nicole Sieben, Chair of Adolescence Education, Associate Professor
• “Hope moments amplified in secondary ELA classrooms and English teacher education,” 72nd convention of the New York State English Council, Albany, New York. October 2023.
• “Scaffolding novice teachers’ reflective ability in teacher preparation coursework,” with A. Hashey, S. Budin, J. Reichenberg, A. Wictor Lynch, 2023 New York State Association of Teacher Educators / New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Fall Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York. October 2023.
18 Faculty Achievements 2023-2024
LIBRARY
Grant
Christa DeVirgilio, Digital & archives Librarian
• “Preserving SUNY Old Westbury’s History: Digitizing the College’s Newsletters and Photographs,” Long Island Library Resources Council, 2024.
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