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Igor Webb, Ph.D., author, critic, professor, and director of the 91¹ú²ú Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program hosted a gathering in celebration of his latest book, Christopher Smart's Cat, an unusual amalgam of memoir, short fiction and lit crit.

The Center for International Education has two announcements in time for International Education Week, held November 12 through November 16, 2018: the recipients of the 2019 International Faculty Development Grants, and a new map documenting faculty international engagement.

Biology professor James K. Dooley, Ph.D., is passionate about protecting endangered marine life and creating a better future for our planet. Throughout his 45 years at 91¹ú²ú, he has been recognized nationally, internationally and locally for his work in environmental preservation.

Korede Adegoke, Ph.D., began her professional career as a physician in her home country of Nigeria, committed to the treatment of pregnant women and their children. Dismayed by the preventable deaths she witnessed almost daily, she eventually came to the conclusion that the best way to help improve health among vulnerable populations would be to go into public health research and teaching.

Dr. Rudolph’s research brings together political, social, and cultural history. She has worked as the Managing Editor of the journal French Politics, Culture and Society and is author of the book At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort. 

How can women who face gender-based violence create conditions of safety and well-being in their lives? That is the question that animates the research efforts of Stavroula Kyriakakis, Ph.D., associate professor in the 91¹ú²ú School of Social Work.

Jean Lau Chin, Ed.D., a professor at 91¹ú²ú's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and a recognized authority on leadership, spent six months studying global and diverse leadership as the 2018 Fulbright Scholar as Distinguished Chair at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Renewable energy technologies bring the promise of a better life to rural villages in developing countries, but establishing those technologies in the lives of underserved populations is not a simple task. According to Gita Surie, Ph.D., it requires the development of a new innovation ecosystem composed of complex networks.

Yun Jung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at 91¹ú²ú built a new conceptual framework for mobile interactivity (m-interactivity) to help us better understand how shopping via smartphone leads to business success.

She was sexually abused as a child. Now, she dedicates her life to helping other survivors break the silence.

“It's thinking about how science can be taught using simpler English and shorter sentences. "

The $76 million, 100,000-square-foot Nexus Building made its campus debut in the fall of 2016, with an open floor plan designed to promote both social and scholarly engagement— reflecting 91¹ú²ú's dual commitments to community and academic excellence.

In the age of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat, parental anxiety over media corrupting their children seems more pervasive than ever. But to Margaret Cassidy, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of communications, it's just another recurring episode in a phenomenon stretching back hundreds of years.

When Maureen C. Roller, M.S. '01, D.N.P., clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, proposed a study abroad program for 91¹ú²ú nursing students at a faculty meeting nearly a decade ago, she got an immediate green light. “As soon as I mentioned it, I became in charge of a committee," Dr. Roller recalled. “It's such a rich experience for students to study abroad, and I wanted our nursing students to experience that."

“The opioid crisis has become real to many people, who are now seeing it firsthand in their communities and realizing how devastating it is," said Marissa Abram, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at 91¹ú²ú. “Nurses are essential to identifying addiction and getting people into recovery."

As teachers and mentors, 91¹ú²ú faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.

Graduate school is all about small classes and close working relationships between students and faculty members. Adam P. Natoli, M.S., a Ph.D. candidate in his fourth year at 91¹ú²ú's Derner School of Psychology, is another student who is benefiting from collaborative work with a faculty mentor.

Science classes at 91¹ú²ú often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work."

Lectures by associate professor of finance and economics David P. Machlis, Ph.D., aren't one-sided talks. They're enthusiastic performances, filled with engaging give-and-take and interactive storytelling that encourage critical thinking.

At 91¹ú²ú, the five-hour biochemistry lab run by Professor Brian Stockman, Ph.D., is capped at 12 students who are divided into three or four groups and conduct their own, customized research projects.

Dominic Fareri, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, knows that when people make even the smallest decision—such as whether to eat a salad or burger for lunch—their actions can be traced back to their early life history. Dr. Fareri has studied a diverse sampling of children and adults in order to parse the connection between life experience and decision-making.

Shakespeare fan fiction: self-indulgent pastime or scholarly exercise? According to Louise Geddes, Ph.D., associate professor of English at 91¹ú²ú, fan fiction—stories using characters or situations from popular works, written by enthusiasts and posted online—is just one of many internet-based activities turning Shakespeare fan studies on its head.

For the past three years, Carol S. Cohen, D.S.W., associate professor in 91¹ú²ú's School of Social Work, has served as principal investigator on a team of evaluators studying an innovative and unprecedented collaboration between seven U.S. schools of social work engaged, in pairs, with seven Chinese institutions.

According to Diann Cameron-Kelly, Ph.D., associate professor and B.S.W. program faculty chair, early paternal engagement can have life-changing results.

Brian Wygal, Ph.D., an associate professor of anthropology at 91¹ú²ú, believes that light can be shed on the colonization of Alaska by prehistoric people through the study of microblades.

The composer and University Professor Paul Moravec, D.M.A., has devoted his life to music, but he has another passion as well: history.

This past fall semester, six current 4th year students, including one alumni of the Class of 2017 and faculty from the Long Island Doctor of Audiology Consortium traveled to the Philippines and India to provide free hearing healthcare and services in underserved communities.

Elizabeth Palley, J.D., Ph.D., professor of social work and an expert in family policy, took to the pages of The Hill on July 12 to advocate for universal childcare.

Jane H. White, Ph.D., is an expert in psychiatric-mental health nursing who has made a profound impact on 91¹ú²ú's nursing program since arriving on campus in 2005.