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Research and Discovery
Distinguished professors from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University actively conduct defining research in a wide range of disciplines, including environmental studies, kidney disease, energy management, aging, cancer and pain management, international business practices, film documentaries and arts management. The University supports scholarly research by providing professors with sabbaticals and grants to encourage ongoing research, book authoring, the creation of exhibitions, and other important project development.
Learn Through Research
Projects
As part of C.W. Post’s commitment to academic excellence, we have the honor of hosting a wide range of distinguished scholars on our campus. These individuals are internationally recognized in their fields and we are privileged to have them study with us and our students. These scholars participate in a number of activities that can include teaching courses, giving lectures and scholarly research. For more information, contact the individual department. Distinguished Scholars Biographies Dr. Bob Brier, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dr. Lloyd Kaufman, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Dr. Hsin-Yu (Kevin) Shih, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Marketing and International Business in the College of Management
Bai Hong'ai, Visiting Research Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Dr. Martin Tucker, Editor, Confrontation and Professor Emeritus of English
Dr. Norbert Krapf, Emeritus Professor of English and C.W. Post Poet Laureate
Dr. Louis Koenig, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Projects
At C.W. Post, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate in the important research projects of our faculty members. Whether it’s groundbreaking studies in pain management for cancer, kidney disease and nutrition, the migration habits of the Terrapin turtle, or the creation of electronic maps to pinpoint environmental problems, you can have the extraordinary opportunity to work side-by-side with some of the world’s leading scientists, artists and educators. Some of our students have even authored major research papers, which have been printed in scholarly journals and presented at national conferences. These accomplishments are particularly attractive to employers, who tend to hirer individuals who are able to analyze situations and document their findings.
Senior Research Fellows and Scholars
Lloyd Kaufman conducted the first serious experimental work on the "moon illusion" – the notion that the moon on the horizon is twice as large as when it is overhead. In 2000, Dr. Kaufman, with his son Dr. James H. Kaufman, presented their findings that the moon illusion occurs because the brain interprets the horizon moon as being much farther away than the elevated moon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The elder Dr. Kaufman received his Ph.D. in psychology from New School University, and is Professor Emeritus at New York University where for many years he was professor psychology and neural science. He is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Association for Advancement of Science. A world-class scientist, the department, faculty and students have benefited tremendously from Dr. Kaufman's contributions both the university community and the community at large.
Martin Tucker, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary magazine Confrontation, which has won a Pushcart Prize, an O'Henry Prize Story and Best American Short Stories. During his tenure as editor, he has received two fellowships for distinguished achievement form the NEA and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (now the Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses). An English Professor Emeritus at C.W. Post, he is the author of several literary studies and the editor of more than 20 volumes of literary encyclopedia as well as three collections of his poetry. He is the author of several literary studies, among them Literary Exile in the Twentieth Century, Sam Shepard, Joseph Conrad, and Africa in Modern Literature. He is also a widely published poet, with three collections to his credit. He has edited more than 20 volumes of literary encyclopedia; among his works in the Library of Literary Criticism series for Frederic Ungar/Continuum Press series are Modern American Literature, Modern British Literature, Modern Commonwealth Literature and The Critical Temper. He was chair of the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University and taught both at C.W. Post and the former Southampton Campus. His reviews, essays, poems and stories have appeared numerous publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Commonweal and Publishers Weekly.
Norbert Krapf, Ph.D. taught at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University from 1970 until 2004, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English and Poet Laureate. He has written or edited 20 books since 1976, 15 of them collections of his poetry, including the title, "The Country I Come From," which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His most recent publication, Invisible Presence: A Walk Through Indiana in Photographs and Poems, a full-color hardcover coffee-table book, from Indiana University Press, is a collaboration with photographer Darryl Jones. He is presently involved in a jazz and poetry collaboration with pianist and composer Monika Herzig that will culminate in the recording of a CD of mostly new material to be titled Imagine, after the John Lennon song of that title. In early 2008, the Indiana Historical Society Press published his 200-page prose book, The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood. He serves on the board of Etheridge Knight, Inc., whose mission is to call attention to the work of the late African American poet of Indianapolis and to bring the arts to those traditionally under-served. From 2004 to 2007, he served as | Long Island University | C.W. Post Campus |