Xiaolei Tang, Professor of Physiology and Immunology in the Lewyt College of Veterinary Medicine, has developed an innovative therapeutic technology to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. The technology has the potential to circumvent side effects due to broad immune suppression associated with currently available therapies, as well as possibly cure and stop the diseases.

Alon Malka-Markovitz, a research scientist at the Dassault Systèmes Center of Excellence, is leading the modeling for the Living Liver project, alongside research fellows Debarshi Ghosh and Stelian Camara Dit Pinto. This novel virtual organ technology combines engineering techniques and machine learning with clinical data to generate patient-specific liver models and help shape a new frontier in biomedical engineering. The platform paves the way for early disease detection, models drug and alcohol toxicity and efficacy, evaluates oncology treatment response, and supports personalized therapy.

Physical Therapy program director Michael Masaracchio ’01 was selected to be the Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine. The issue will focus on the clinical management of low back pain. In 2022, Masaracchio was elected as the vice president of the American Physical Therapy Association’s New York chapter.

Seniors in the Global College presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Pittsburgh. As part of their fourth and final year in the program, students conduct a capstone project that features research conducted during their previous three years spent traveling to different countries around the world. This was the seventh consecutive year that 100% of the seniors in the Global College have been accepted to the conference.

Michael Pantalon, Dean of the School of Health Professions, and Laura Seinfeld, Dean of the College of Education, Information and Technology, have secured over $4 million in funding from Nassau County for two projects related to mental health and opioid use. The first project is aimed at offering and evaluating a wide range of training and educational programs for the mental health professionals and citizens of the county. The second focuses on implementing and evaluating a school-based screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment program around the risk for opioid use.

Alumnus Jason Menghi ’98 returned to the Post campus to speak with the Accounting Society on achieving success in the accounting field. Menghi’s remarkable career spans over 20 years as an Audit and Assurance Partner at Deloitte, where he has led audit and advisory services for some of the firm’s largest private equity clients and SEC registrants.

Claire Charvet, a graduate student at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, authored an article for the New York Public Library on the work of costume designer and choreographer Pauline Lawrence Limón (1900-1971). Charvet is a Library page for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Read the article here.

LIU Model UN team received the Outstanding Position Paper award and two Outstanding Individual Delegation awards at the international conference held at the United Nations headquarters in NYC. During the four-day conference, LIU students competed against nearly 2,000 peers representing 128 UN member states from academic institutions that ranged across Europe Asia, Latin America and elsewhere from around the world.

The College of Education, Information and Technology (CEIT) hosted its annual Superintendent Career Panel for education students. The two-hour session was moderated by Deans Scholars, who led a thoughtful discussion with superintendents from Manhasset, Garden City, Kings Park, and Harborfields School Districts. The panel shared valuable insights from their own experiences and provided a glimpse into the leadership and decision-making processes behind Long Island’s public schools.

Long Island University has named Brendan Riley the head coach of the men’s ice hockey program. Riley, who joins LIU after four seasons on the coaching staff at American International College, will serve as the second head coach in program history. He helped lead AIC to Atlantic Hockey Association regular season and tournament championships in 2022.