Past Events
April 23, 2025
In this hands-on session, Beth Schachter, PhD, provided faculty with advanced grant application tactics, practical writing skills, and personalized mentorship to help them advance their research projects, offering expert guidance and tools tailored to those well into their grant application journey.
Presenter: Beth Schachter, PhD, Grant Writing Consultant and Coach
March 26, 2025
This second session in the grant writing series, led by Beth Schachter, PhD, focused on advanced strategies for faculty in the sciences, offering hands-on guidance in developing compelling, fundable proposals. Guest presenters Matthew Aiello-Lammens, PhD, and Zafir Buraei, PhD, shared insights from their own successful grant experiences, enriching the workshop with practical advice and discipline-specific examples.
Presenter: Beth Schachter, PhD, Grant Writing Consultant and Coach
Guest presenters: Matthew Aiello-Lammens, PhD, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Pleasantville and Zafir Buraei, PhD, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Biology, NYC
Monday, March 24, 2025
In this presentation, Fran Falk-Ross, PhD (School of Education, PLV), shared research on the benefits of using multimodal instruction鈥攕uch as images, graphic novels, poetry, and online sources鈥攖o support diverse learners and educators. She presented examples of teacher-designed multimodal resources, drawing from her published work in Language Arts and past conference presentations.
Presenter: Francine Falk-Ross, PhD, School of Education, Pleasantville
February 20, 2025
In this presentation, Kyomi Gregory-Martin, PhD, shared her research on non-mainstream dialects, child language assessment, interprofessional practice, and training workshops. A recipient of the 2024 ASHA Award for multicultural contributions and the Dean鈥檚 Research Award, she has published widely in speech-language pathology and related fields.
Presenter: Kyomi Gregory-Martin, PhD, CCC-SLP, College of Health Professions, NYC
February 19, 2025
This was the first in a series of presentations led by Beth Schachter, PhD, a grant writing consultant and coach. Beth guided participants in crafting grant proposals across disciplines, covering key elements like clear objectives, effective structure, and tailoring proposals to funding criteria.
Presenter: , Grant Writing Consultant and Coach
February 13, 2025
This presentation guided faculty in writing impactful recommendation letters for students applying for prestigious awards, scholarships, and fellowships. Participants learned to tailor letters, craft compelling narratives, and avoid common pitfalls to enhance their recommendations.
Presenters: Anna Beskin, PhD, Director of Faculty and Graduate Research, Office of Research and Graduate Education and Moira Egan, PhD, Director of Prestigious Awards and Graduate Fellowships, Office of Research and Graduate Education
December 2, 2024
This session helped graduate students craft compelling personal statements for grants and awards by teaching them to distinguish between autobiography and personal statements, highlight their strengths, articulate their values, and create a narrative that balances vulnerability with professionalism.
Presenter: Anna Beskin, PhD, Director of Faculty and Graduate Research, Office of Research and Graduate Education; Adjunct Professor, English Dept, NYC
November 21, 2024
The programmatic research workshop provided faculty with essential tools and strategies for starting and sustaining successful collaborative partnerships, offering practical insights on strengthening grant proposals and achieving innovative research outcomes.
Presenter: Beau Anderson, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean, Allied Health, College of Health Professions, NYC
November 21, 2024
This presentation aimed to help graduate students navigate Pivot, a customizable database designed to streamline the search for research funding and collaboration opportunities, locate grants, refine searches, and utilize advanced tools to enhance their research journey.
Presenter: Nick Epiphaniou, Customer Success Manager, Pivot
November 19, 2024
In a session, Joseph Franco guided faculty, especially junior faculty, on how to integrate research with teaching, service, and other professional activities, offering strategies to create a cohesive professional narrative and enhance their academic impact.
Presenter: Joseph Franco, PhD, LMHC, NCC, ACS, Senior Advisor to the Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor, Psychology & Mental Health Counseling, Pleasantville
November 18, 2024
Professor Mancini's talk explored how individuals can experience improved functioning after various acute stressors, such as bereavement, natural disasters, and military deployment, offering an explanatory framework for understanding when and why such improvements occur.
Presenter: Anthony Mancini, PhD, Professor, Psychology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pleasantville
November 6, 2024
This insightful panel brought together accomplished faculty grant winners from diverse disciplines to share their experiences, offering practical advice and strategies for navigating the grant application process and strengthening proposals.
Presenters: Michelle Chase, PhD, History, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pleasantville, Julie Lawrence-Edsell, MFA, Performing Arts, Sands College of Performing Arts, NYC, Pauline Helen Mosley, PhD, Information Technology, Seidenberg School of CSIS, Pleasantville, Tanya Wiggins, PhD, School of Education, NYC, and Zhan Zhang, PhD, Information Technology, Seidenberg School of CSIS, NYC
October 10, 2024
91社区 has a subscription to the . Pivot is a great resource for faculty, staff and students interested in identifying relevant funding opportunities for their research, scholarship, teaching, and creative activities. It is a comprehensive global source of funding opportunities that helps research organizations inform their funding strategies and win a larger share of available funding. It also uses scholarly profiles to match researchers to relevant financial support and provides trusted funding and policy intelligence for strategic planning.
This workshop addressed how to:
- Access your institutional Pivot-RP system
- Create and complete your researcher profile, and fine-tune your automated funding recommendations
- Seek and network with other experts/PIs in your area of research
- Search for funding opportunities using both basic and advanced search options
- Set up email alerts to for funding in your field of interest
October 9, 2024
Christelle Scharff, PhD, presented a fascinating overview of the Seidenberg AI Lab's current research, initiatives, and its vision as a central hub for AI innovation at the Faculty Research Series.
Presenter: Christelle Scharff, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, NYC