Research at Quinnipiac
Research at Quinnipiac
Quinnipiac faculty are deeply committed to active scholarship. Many of our esteemed faculty members work diligently to publish research, drive discovery and expand the boundaries of knowledge in their fields, individually, with one another and with students. With support from the entire Quinnipiac community, our faculty enjoy access to state-of-the-art facilities and ample funding opportunities to power their critical contributions.
Statistics on articles published by Quinnipiac faculty from 1962 to 2025, as found in library databases.
AI That Serves People First
At Quinnipiac University, innovation in artificial intelligence doesn’t start with a code. It starts with a question: Who will this benefit?
For computer science professor Chetan Jaiswal, PhD, and his students, AI advancements aren't measured by novelty, but by their power to restore agency, break down barriers and foster greater independence.
That philosophy came into focus during an occupational therapy event when Jaiswal noticed a young boy struggling to steer his wheelchair while trying to talk to his mother. His independence was compromised by the very tools meant to empower him.
“It was a moment where I thought, ‘We can do better,’” said Jaiswal. “To me, meaningful development means solutions that improve lives. Not just inventing for innovation’s sake.”
That experience sparked the creation of AccessiMove™, a hands-free mobility tool powered by facial gestures and artificial intelligence.
It also marked a milestone as the university’s first technology approved for a U.S. patent.
Quinnipiac faculty have been exploring artificial intelligence for more than a decade, with the first AI-related research publications appearing in 2008. While scholarship on AI has steadily evolved over time, research activity has grown rapidly since 2022, reflecting the technology’s expanding influence across disciplines. Today, AI-focused publications come from a wide range of subject areas and academic departments, highlighting Quinnipiac’s interdisciplinary approach to innovation and discovery.
Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences are devoted educators who set a precedent for the students they teach and mentor. Passionate and driven scientists, authors, economists and historians, they epitomize the Quinnipiac mission of turning passion into action.
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Faculty in the School of Communications are devoted educators who set a precedent for the students they teach and mentor. Passionate and driven researchers, authors, writers, directors and producers, they epitomize the Quinnipiac mission of turning passion into action. Our professors have published numerous books, regularly contribute their scholarship, criticism and reviews to academic journals and news outlets, and bring creative visions to life in films, shorts and documentaries.
Lisa Burns and Hilary Fussell Sisco: Impact of Crisis on Candidate Branding in the 2024 Presidential Election (2025)
Alexander Laskin: The Perceptions of Nuclear War: The Imbalanced Co-Orientation Between Russian and American Youth (2025)
Katie Place: Accomplices in the Public Relations Classroom: An Autoethnography of Social-justice and Anti-racism-informed Teaching (2025)
Lisa Burns: The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies (2025)
Alexander Laskin: Organizational Reputation Management: A Strategic Public Relations Perspective (2024)
Brittani Sahm: Framing esports' JEDI issues: a case study in media irresponsibility in Corporate Communications: An International Journal (2023)
Katie Place: Exploring ethical listening among public relations professionals in Journal of Media Ethics (2023)
Katie Place: Exploring trauma-informed listening among public relations professionals in Public Relations Review (2023)
Wasim Ahmad: #MeToo in the Newsroom: Image Repair and Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Journalism Practice (2022)
Katie Place: Toward a framework for listening with consideration for intersectionality: Insights from public relations professionals in borderland spaces in Journal of Public Relations Research (2022)
Katie Place and Alexander Laskin: Framing the strategic R&D paradigm shift in big pharma: A content analysis of pharmaceutical annual reports in Journal of Communication Management (2022)
Alexander Laskin: Investor Relations and Financial Communication (2022)
Lisa Burns: Political Branding and Messaging Strategies in the 2020 Post-Election Campaign in The 2020 Post-Election Campaign: A Communication Perspective (2021)
Lisa Burns: How Media (and Media History) Shape Students’ Individual and Collective Memories of 9/11 in Journalism History (2021)
Wasim Ahmad: Not at Risk? News, Gatekeeping, and Missing Teens in Journalism Practice (2020)
Lisa Burns: Media Relations and the Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump (2020)
Ben Bogardus: An MMJ's Day - An Interactive Timeline - Journal of Media Education in Journal of Media Education (2019)
Katie Place and Hilary Fussell Sisco: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Gender Income Gap in Public Relations From 1979 to 2014 in Media Report to Women (2019)
Alexander Laskin: Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media Around the World (2018)
John Powers: Case Study: Mobile Communication in the Bateyes of the Dominican Republic in Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media Around the World (2018)
Ewa Callahan, Chaya (2024): Director and Producer
Ashley Brandon, Cora in Reflection (2023): Director
Ashley Brandon, I Scream, You Scream (2022): Director
Ashley Brandon, Día de la Madre (2020): Director
Andrés Rosende Novo, Chain of Death (2019): Writer
Blythe Frank, Showing Roots (2016): Producer
Blythe Frank, Wild Oats (2016): Producer
Blythe Frank, Being Charlie (2015): Producer
Andrés Rosende Novo, Mr. Bear (2011): Director and Writer
Andrés Rosende Novo, Escape (2010): Director and Writer
Fritz Staudmyer, Escape (2010): Writer
David Atkins, Novocaine (2001): Director, Screenplay and Story
Learn more about work and research in the School of Communications
When they aren’t shaping young engineers in the classroom, our professors are active in their field and engaged in their own important research. Our faculty are practicing engineers who regularly showcase their work at conferences, sit on panels and publish in a variety of research journals.
Engineering faculty are mentors who lead by example. They advise, guide and encourage students to pursue meaningful undergraduate research and independent study that leads to reports, presentations and even publications of their own.
Learn more about work and research in the School of Computing & Engineering
Faculty in the School of Education are devoted educators who set a precedent for the students they teach and mentor. Passionate innovators in their field, our faculty regularly showcase their work and research, and publish in a variety of research journals.
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal
Journal of Science Education and Technology
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Journal of Cleaner Production
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Research in Science Education
Learn more about work and research in the School of Education
Faculty in the School of Health Sciences are devoted educators who set a precedent for the students they teach and mentor. Our faculty are practicing researchers and clinicians who regularly showcase their work at conferences, sit on panels and publish in a variety of research journals. They advise, guide and encourage students to pursue meaningful research and independent study that leads to reports, presentations and even publications of their own.
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The faculty at Quinnipiac University School of Law have consistently made significant contributions to the legal field — both within academia and beyond. Our faculty continue to produce impactful publications, including single-author journal articles, book chapters, and notable legal filings, among other works. As a result, their research has earned praise from scholars, practitioners, judges and legislators alike.
Kevin Barry
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Student Success
Parental Autonomy, Family Disruption, and a New Attack on Transgender Rights, 16 Northeastern University Law Review 673 (with Jennifer Levi) (2024).
Transgender Athletes & Disability Rights, 35 Stanford Law & Policy Review 178 (2024).
Jennifer Gerarda Brown
Professor of Law
Beginner’s Wisdom: A Guided Journal for 1L Self-Reflection and Professional Identity Formation, West Academic (forthcoming 2026).
A Legislative Response to 303 Creative, 134 Yale L.J.F 270 (2025) (with Ian Ayres).
Sara Cates
Assistant Professor of Legal Skills
A Sloppy Amalgamation: Law, Poetry, and the Making of Legal Writers, 8 J. Acad. Writing Assignments 50 (2024).
Transcending Genre: Lessons from the Poet on Good Writing, 21 J. ALWD 153 (2024) (Book Review).
Jeffrey A. Cooper
Professor of Law
The Final Account (A Jack Collins Thriller), Red Adept Publishing (2025).
2020 Developments in Connecticut Estate and Probate Law, 94 Conn. B.J. 348 (2024) (with John R. Ivimey & Katherine E. Mulry).
Scott DeVito
Associate Professor of Law
Dobbs Is, Historically, Right, 37 Regent U. L. Rev. 1 (2024).
Neal Feigenson
Lynne J. Pantalena Professor of Law
Say It with Pictures: Image and Text in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 76 Ala. L. Rev. 79 (2024).
Naïve realism and visual evidence: Theory, research, and legal applications, Psychology, Public Policy & Law (2024) (peer reviewed).
Effects of Verbal Framing and Attitudes Toward Police on Mock Jurors’ Judgments of Body-Worn Camera Video, Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 38, no. 6 (2024) (with Jaihyun Park & Ngayin Cheng).
Chester Fernández
Assistant Professor of Law
Cruel and NOT unusual - The Treatment of Trans Defendants in Criminal Sentencing, 78 Rutgers L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Brian Gallini
Dean of the School of Law
Professor of Law
Licensure as Pathway, Not Barrier, 78 Ark. L. Rev. 199 (2025).
Jennifer Herbst
Professor of Law and Medical Sciences
Applying Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Everyday Crises: The Role of Policy, Innovation, and Stewardship in Healthcare Emergencies, 78 J. Emerg. Med. 192 (Nov. 2025) (with Rachel Lauren Welch, Rebeca Vergara Greeno, Benjamin Tolchin, Nitu Kashyap, Mary Showstark, Jennifer L. Herbst, Nancy Kim & Karen Jubanyik).
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine, 23 Amer. J. Bioethics 46 (2023).
Jordan A. Jefferson
Director of the Lynne J. Pantalena Law Library and Associate Professor of Law
Considering Trauma-Informed Reference Services in an Academic Law Library, in Exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Law Librarianship: Historical Reflections, Present Challenges, and Future Opportunities in Legal Education (Jessica de Perio Wittman & Raquel J. Gabriel eds., forthcoming 2025).
John Martin
Assistant Professor of Law
Unilateral Election Administration, 101 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
Regulating Foreign Political Advocacy, 104 North Carolina L. Review (forthcoming 2026).
Election Law, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Forthcoming (with Maureen Edobor).
The Democratic Value of Transnational Campaign Finance, 15 UC Irvine L. Rev. 809 (2025).
Dolace McLean
Assistant Professor of Law
How to Keep an Empire: A Legal Analysis of the Maintenance of Uneven Power Relations in the Insular Cases, 54 Stetson L. Rev. 433, (2025).
Wayne Unger
Assistant Professor of Law
Data Privacy & Security Law, West Academic (2025).
The Constitutionality of Brain Searches, 50 Hastings Const. L. Q. 321 (2023).
Stay Out of My Head: Neurodata, Privacy, and the First Amendment, 80 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1439 (2023).
Our faculty are award-winning physicians with decades of practice experience in multiple specialties, as well as passionate educators who have taught in numerous universities, hospitals and other institutions. They have received prestigious fellowships, served as chaired members in international societies and even host nationally syndicated radio shows.
Both clinicians and scholars, our professors contribute to the advancement of medicine through groundbreaking medical research and regularly publish their work in trade journals and magazines.
Our faculty members contribute to the advancement of medicine through groundbreaking research in subjects as diverse as renal disease, veterans’ health issues, public health community program planning and cannabis pharmacology.
Associate Professor Carolyn Macica's research on metabolic bone disorders, namely the most common form of familial childhood rickets — X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) — led to the creation of Quinnipiac’s XLH Day program, a patient advocacy event and symposium held at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine.
Learn more about our work and research in the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine
From engaging with distinguished scholars and thought leaders to collaborating with scientific researchers and global organizations, our work and research empowers students with the skills, opportunities and confidence to do meaningful work that redefines industries.
