Halloween Will Be Different in 2020
Assistant Professor Christine Hartford, M.D., warns of the dangers of trick-or-treating during the pandemic and what people need to do to stay safe and healthy.
Q&A: The Trouble With the Anti-Vaxxer Movement
Jonathan Berman, Ph.D., assistant professor of basic sciences at NYITCOM-Arkansas, sat down with The Box to talk about why anti-vaxxers are opposed to immunizations, the history of the movement, and a strategy for countering them.
Caring for the Commons
In a paper co-authored by Associate Professor of Marketing Colleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., researchers experiment with psychological ownership to help consumers take better care of public spaces.
News Byte: To Succeed, Businesses and Schools Need to Adapt Their Tech Skills
In the Tech Agility: The Must Have Skill to Succeed in School in Business webinar, Dean Babak Beheshti, Ph.D., offered his views on how COVID-19 has forced businesses and schools to adapt their technology.
Op-ed: Staying Fit Is More Important Than Ever During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Until COVID-19, too many Americans viewed exercise as the ticket to a beach body, not as the first line of defense against deadly diseases, writes Alex Rothstein, M.S., instructor and coordinator for New York Tech’s Exercise Science, B.S. degree program, in an op-ed in Fortune.
News Byte: New York Tech Community Records 10,000 Hours of Service
Celebrating a major community engagement milestone, New York Tech has recorded 10,000 hours of volunteer service on GivePulse.
Q&A: Suicide Awareness and Prevention
In recognition of Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month, The Box sat down with NYITCOM’s Liat Jarkon, D.O., psychiatrist and director of the Center for Behavioral Health, to learn about the resources available to at-risk individuals and their loved ones.
News Byte: Aluminaire House Finds New Home in Palm Springs
The Aluminaire House Foundation, founded by NYIT School of Architecture and Design faculty Michael Schwarting, M.Arch. and Frances Campani, M.Arch., has donated the Aluminaire House to the Palm Springs Museum of Art to be part of its permanent collection.
Op-ed: A Vaccine Doesn’t Mean the End of the Pandemic
Distributing many millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses will pose enormous challenges for the U.S. medical supply chain, and the United States is unprepared, according to an op-ed by Purushottam Meena, Ph.D., associate professor of operations management.
New Faculty Receive Rousing, Robust Tech Welcome
Eight tenure-track professors, three teaching faculty, and one post-doctoral teaching fellow were welcomed to New York Tech during online faculty orientation activities in early September.
Convocation Celebrates New Academic Year, Presidential Excellence Award Winners
Members of New York Tech’s leadership team shared highlights of the past year and plans for 2020-2021 at the annual convocation for faculty and staff on September 3, 2020.
Building a Community of Care
At the “We’re in This Together: A Community of Resources to Support our Students” discussion, New York Institute of Technology faculty and staff learned about ways to support students and how to be a resource for one another during difficult and uncertain times.