Faculty News & Kudos

News & Kudos February 2024

Renata Bundy and Khrystyna Vyprynyuk (Dental Hygiene) collaborated and were interviewed last year by Jason Mazda, an editor of major dental publications. This resulted in Jason’s article being published in the September/October 2023 issue of Inside Dental Hygiene, and two articles written by Professors Bundy and Vyprynyuk published in Inside Dental Hygiene and Inside Dental Technology. One of the articles was also picked to be published for dental audiences in Inside Dentistry with the addition of the quiz with 2 hours professional CE credits. These articles reach audiences across dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental laboratory technology professions.

Nazanin Hedayat Munroe (Business, Director Textile Technology) is giving a book talk with the CUNY Academy of Humanities and Sciences on Friday, March 8 at 11am for the publication of her edited anthology Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries: Stories from a Globe-Spanning History (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024). With contributions from leading experts, this collection presents original research on the skills brought by immigrant communities to the textile and fashion industries in Asia and the Islamic World, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Read details on the March 8 event here. (Discount code: GLR AR9 for US buyers)

Read more news about our colleagues on the City Tech News feed, including, this month:

Illya Azaroff (Architectural Technology)
Ashwani Bedi and Ramsey Dabby (Architectural Technology)
Mark Chiusano (English)
Marissa Moran (Law & Paralegal Studies)
Denise Sutton (Business)
Michelle Todd (Construction Management & Civil Engineering Technology)

Laura Westengard has been awarded a $40,000 grant by CUNY’s LGBTQIA+ Consortium

Laura Westengard (English) and Coordinator of the Gender & Sexuality Studies Academic Minor has been awarded a $40,000 grant by CUNY’s LGBTQIA+ Consortium to serve City Tech’s LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff. Additional support for this grant was provided by LaGuardia Community College and the New York City Council LGBT and Queer Caucus.

Parvaneh Pourshariati is one of the main scholars featured in a newly-released documentary telling the story of Derbent

Parvaneh Pourshariati (Social Science), Professor of History, is one of the main scholars featured in a newly-released documentary telling the story of Derbent, a 6th-century Persian fortress with a tumultuous past.

Rebecca Devers Mazumdar was named as City Tech’s 2022 – 2023 Teacher Recognition Awardee

Rebecca Devers Mazumdar (English) was named as City Tech’s 2022 – 2023 Teacher Recognition Awardee at a ceremony and dinner in her honor in the Janet Lefler dining room on December 5^th.

Carlo Alvaro recently published a paper on cultured meat in Nature, a British peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Carlo Alvaro (Social Science), Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy, recently published a paper on cultured meat in Nature, a British peer-reviewed scientific journal. The paper, titled “A virtue-ethical approach to cultured meat,” discusses how the benefits of cultured meat fail to track our moral intuitions because they are focused on the practical aspect of cultured meat production and consumption.

Lubie G. Alatriste gave a talk in December at the invitation of TESOL International Association

Professor of English, Lubie G. Alatriste, gave a talk in December at the invitation of TESOL International Association under their Expert Series on the use of online resources in teaching college second language writers. This event was broadcast internationally with a large global audience. Read more. . .

Peter Spellane has recently published Chemical and Petroleum Industries at Newtown Creek (Springer, 2022)

Peter Spellane (Chemistry) has recently published Chemical and Petroleum Industries at Newtown Creek (Springer, 2022), an informative book blending history, science, and commerce along New York’s 19th-century waterfront. Spellane’s study draws on period documents he found in collections at the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Cooper Union Library, the New-York Historical Society, the Library of Congress, and other archives.  Read more. . .