NIH Grant Enables NYITCOM Researchers to Investigate Diabetic Heart Failure Treatments
An NYITCOM research team led by Biomedical Sciences Instructor Satoru Kobayashi, Ph.D., has secured a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to investigate treatments for diabetic heart failure.
A Sweet Marketing Strategy
Sweethearts conversation hearts are an iconic Valentine’s Day candy, but with 16 new sayings, they look different this year. School of Management Interim Dean Deborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., explains what’s behind this marketing strategy.
Faculty Profile: Jessica Varghese
From inspiring other first-generation students to pursue their dreams to taking students abroad to work with refugees, Assistant Professor of Nursing Jessica Varghese, Ph.D., is committed to building community in the School of Health Professions.
Discussing Collective Trauma and Mental Health
NYITCOM’s Liat Jarkon, D.O., director of the Center for Behavioral Health and assistant professor of family medicine, was one of several experts featured in a virtual forum about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Long Island’s mental health crisis.
The Trouble With 5G
In a Q&A with The Box, Batu Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, explains how 5G interferes with flight navigation and what can be done to keep air travel safe.
Faculty Profile: Jennifer Yanhua Xie
Jennifer Yanhua Xie, Ph.D., secured NYITCOM-Arkansas’s first NIH grant in 2020. Now, she will play a key role in a new study aimed at developing treatments for inflammatory bowel disease—the first NIH-funded research collaboration between NYITCOM-Arkansas and A-State.
Science for All
New York Tech professors get creative while sharing their expertise, drawing on seemingly unrelated topics to reach their students and the general public.
Large NIH Grant Supports Work in Direct Sequencing of RNA Modifications
With a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant, Associate Professor of Biological and Chemical Sciences Shenglong Zhang, Ph.D., will lead a team of researchers to determine how RNA modifications affect conditions including cancer and diabetes.
Faculty Profile: Matthias Altwicker
“The truth is that architecture requires a team of people with different focuses and interests…To make a great work of architecture, every member of that team needs to be skilled and synchronized with one another,” says Associate Professor of Architecture Matthias Altwicker.
Study: Nasal Problem Plagued Long-Nosed Crocodile Relatives
Research from NYITCOM-Arkansas’s Jason Bourke, Ph.D., finds that humans have more in common with endangered crocodiles than we think—namely, a deviated septum.
Faculty Profile: Felix Fischman
A veteran of private industry as well as university teaching, Assistant Professor Felix Fischman believes the best way to learn in any computer language is to understand the origins of object-oriented programming.
News Byte: Alumni Named as Power Women of Long Island
NYITCOM’s Liat Jarkon, D.O., is one of several alumni named to Schneps Media’s 2021 “Power Women of Long Island.”