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The State University of New YorkDistinguished Academy

Induction of the 2015

Distinguished Faculty

May 31, 2016, Desmond Hotel, Albany, New York

5th Anniversary Celebration

From The Chancellor

May 31, 2016

Dear Distinguished Faculty,

It is my pleasure and honor to welcome you to the fifth annual meeting and dinner of the State University of New York’s Distinguished Academy.

This event allows me the opportunity to bring together in one place our talented distinguished faculty from across the State University system. It also provides us with a chance to extend our appreciation and gratitude to all of you for your broad-ranging achievements and many contributions to the various professions, the SUNY campuses, your communities, the state, the nation, and the world. Your collegial spirit of innovation, leadership, service to society, quality instruction, research, and all of your groundbreaking work epitomizes excellence, and in doing so, honors the State University.

In consultation with the Executive Committee of the Distinguished Academy, this year we will focus on creating a culture of excellence within SUNY. Your collective wisdom and expertise will be beneficial as we have these discussions, and we will be calling upon you for your assistance and support.

Your dedication to the highest principles of your profession and your continuing contributions to SUNY are a source of pride and inspiration for us all. I look forward to seeing all of you, and to welcoming our newest members to the Distinguished Academy.

Sincerely,

Nancy L. ZimpherChancellor

From The ChancellorThe State University of New York

Distinguished AcademyTuesday, May 31, 2016, Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, Albany, New York

MASTER OF CEREMONIESDr. Jason E. Lane, Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Strategic Leadership

and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor

WELCOMEDr. Peter Knuepfer, President, University Faculty Senate

Dr. Nina Tamrowski, President, Faculty Council of Community Colleges

INTRODUCTION OF DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY HONORARY INDUCTEESFollowed by a Video of the Emerson String Quartet

Dr. Dennis N. Assanis, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stony Brook University

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY THE EMERSON STRING QUARTETMr. Eugene Drucker, Mr. Lawrence Dutton, Mr. Philip Setzer, and Mr. Paul Watkins

~ DINNER ~

DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY INAUGURAL VIDEO

DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY FIFTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY VIDEO Dr. Joanna B. Chrzanowski, Jefferson Community College

Dr. Alfred Frederick, SUNY OswegoMr. Joseph A. Hildreth, SUNY Potsdam

Ms. Trudi E. Jacobson, University at Albany Dr. W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY Brockport

Dr. Binita R. Shah, Downstate Medical CenterDr. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University

CHANCELLOR’S REMARKSDr. Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor

PROVOST’S REMARKSDr. Alexander N. Cartwright, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

CONFERRAL OF MEDALLION OF DISTINCTIONThe Emerson String Quartet

Mr. Eugene Drucker, *Mr. Lawrence Dutton, Mr. David Finckel, *Mr. Philip Setzer, and Mr. Paul Watkins

INDUCTION OF THE 2015 DISTINGUISHED FACULTYRank of Distinguished Professor

Rank of Distinguished Teaching ProfessorRank of Distinguished Service Professor

Musical accompaniment for tonight’s program features SUNY MusiciansJames McElwaine, Professor Emeritus of Music, Purchase College, Saxophone and Clarinet

Andrew Grau, SUNY Oneonta, BassVJ Brown, Nassau Community College, Guitar

Michael Gordon, Purchase College, Drums

*Mr. Lawrence Dutton and Mr. Philip Setzer of the Emerson String Quartet, were appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York Board of Trustees on November 5, 2015.

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The State University of New York Distinguished Academy

SUNY DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY

The rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor was created by the Board of Trustees in 1963 with the first faculty member promoted to the rank in 1964. Since then 1,062 faculty have been honored in one of four specific categories: Distinguished Professorship, Distinguished Teaching Professorship, Distinguished Service Professorship, and Distinguished Librarian. SUNY’s Distinguished faculty include Nobel Laureates, National Academy members, a Fields Medalist, a Dirac Medalist, and National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners.

It was the intent of the Board of Trustees that appointment to the Distinguished Faculty ranks would also carry additional leadership responsibility. Distinguished faculty are expected to function as role models and devote appropriate service to University-wide activities, both ceremonial and professional, such as offering lectures and seminars, informing curricular development, improving the overall academic experience of students, mentoring junior faculty, and leading inquiry into issues of importance to SUNY and the larger society.

In 2012, at the request of Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, the Board of Trustees officially created the SUNY Distinguished Academy, whose members include all active Distinguished faculty appointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees. The Distinguished Academy serves as a formal organization to bring together many of SUNY’s most esteemed faculty, and in so doing, to leverage the collective wisdom and expertise of its members to support academic excellence across the State University of New York.

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DISTINGUISHED FACULTY DESCRIPTIONS

Distinguished Faculty Rank programs encourage ongoing commitment toexcellence, kindle intellectual vibrancy, elevate the standards of instruction, andenrich contributions to public service. They demonstrate the State University’spride and gratitude for the consummate professionalism, groundbreakingscholarship, exceptional instruction, and breadth and significance of servicecontributions of its faculty.

Appointment constitutes a promotion to the State University’s highestacademic rank, and it is conferred solely by The State University of New YorkBoard of Trustees.

> The Distinguished Librarian is conferred upon librarians whose contributions have been transformational in creating a new information environment by providing access to information, sharing or networking information resources, and fostering information literacy.

> The Distinguished Professorship is conferred upon faculty having achieved national or international prominence and a distinguished reputation within the individual’s chosen field through significant contributions to research and scholarship or through artistic performance or achievement in the fine and performing arts.

> The Distinguished Service Professorship is conferred upon instructional faculty having achieved a distinguished reputation for service not only to the campus and the University, but also to the community, the State of New York, or even the nation, by sustained effort in the application of intellectual skills drawing from the candidate’s scholarly and research interests to issues of public concern. It is bestowed on faculty in any of the disciplines or fields of study.

> The Distinguished Teaching Professorship is conferred upon instructional faculty for outstanding teaching competence at the graduate, undergraduate, or professional levels. Teaching mastery is to be consistently demonstrated over multiple years at the institution where the Distinguished Teaching Professorship is bestowed.

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The Emerson String Quartet has accumulated an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: more than thirty acclaimed recordings, nine Grammys® (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” and collaborations with many of the greatest artists of our time.

The arrival of Paul Watkins in 2013 has had a profound effect on the Emerson Quartet. Mr. Watkins, a distinguished soloist, award-winning conductor, and devoted chamber musician, joined the ensemble in its 37th season, and his dedication and enthusiasm have infused the Quartet with a warm, rich tone and a palpable joy in the collaborative process. The reconfigured group has been greeted with impressive accolades. “The Emerson brought the requisite virtuosity to every phrase. But this music is equally demanding emotionally and intellectually, and the group’s powers of concentration and sustained intensity were at least as impressive.” The New York Times

The Quartet’s summer season included engagements at BBC Proms and the Ravinia, Tanglewood, Aspen, Chamber Music Northwest, Evian, Berlin, Great Lakes, Norfolk, Cape Cod and Mostly Mozart festivals. In a season of over 85 quartet performances, mingled with the Quartet members’ individual artistic commitments, the Emerson plays extensively throughout North America. Season highlights include collaborations

with soprano Barbara Hannigan for Berg’s Lyric Suite at the Berlin Festival, with violist Roberto Diaz for Mendelssohn’s Viola Quintet at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and with the Calidore String Quartet for the Mendelssohn Octet at Princeton University. The Emerson also performs two concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall in November and will appear at the second Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert

Hall in May 2016. Multiple tours of Europe comprise dates in Denmark, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Austria, Hungary and the United Kingdom; they also visit Moscow, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul. The Emerson continues its series at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC for its 37th season, and is presented by Lincoln Center’s “Great Performers” in a three-part series of late Haydn and early Beethoven string quartets in April and May.

The Emerson’s 2015-16 season begins with the release of a disc with world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming on the Decca/Universal label, featuring Viennese music written in the 1920s and ‘30s: Berg’s Lyric Suite (including an alternate version of the last movement for soprano and quartet), Egon Wellesz’s Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eric Zeisl’s Komm, süsser Tod (Come, sweet Death). Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson was one of the first quartets formed with two violinists alternating in the first chair position. In 2002, the Quartet began to stand for most of its concerts, with the cellist seated on a riser. The Emerson Quartet, which took its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, is Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. In January 2015, the Quartet received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America’s highest honor, in recognition of its significant and lasting contribution to the chamber music field.

THE EMERSON STRING QUARTET

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DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY MEDALLION OF DISTINCTION

EUGENE DRUCKERViolinist Eugene Drucker, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, is also an active soloist. He has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege,

Hartford, Richmond, Omaha, Jerusalem and the Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and Aspen Chamber Symphony. A graduate of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Oscar Shumsky, Mr. Drucker was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, with which he appeared as soloist several times. He made his New York debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner in the fall of 1976, after having won prizes at the Montreal Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Mr. Drucker has recorded the complete unaccompanied works of Bach, reissued by Parnassus Records, and the complete sonatas and duos of Bartók for Biddulph Recordings. His novel, The Savior, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007 and has appeared in a German translation called Wintersonate, published by Osburg Verlag in Berlin. Mr. Drucker’s compositional debut, a setting of four sonnets by Shakespeare, was premiered by baritone Andrew Nolen and the Escher String Quartet at Stony Brook in 2008; the songs have appeared as part of a 2-CD release called “Stony Brook Soundings,” issued by Bridge Recordings in the spring of 2010. Eugene Drucker lives in New York with his wife, cellist Roberta Cooper, and their son Julian.

Violins: Antonius Stradivarius (Cremona, 1686), Samuel Zygmuntowicz (NY, NY 2002)

PAUL WATKINSPaul Watkins enjoys a distinguished career as cellist and conductor. Born in 1970, he studied with William Pleeth, Melissa Phelps and Johannes Goritzki, and was appointed principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1990 at the age of 20. He made his concerto debut at the Amsterdam

Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Yakov Kreizberg. He now performs regularly with all the major British orchestras (including seven appearances at the BBC Proms) and many overseas orchestras including the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin. A member of the Nash Ensemble from 1997 to 2013, Mr. Watkins joined the Emerson String Quartet in May 2013. He is a regular participant at festivals and chamber music series, including New York’s Lincoln Center and Music@Menlo, and regularly performs with the world’s finest musicians, including Menahem Pressler, Jaime Laredo, Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff and Vadim Repin. In 2014, Paul Watkins was appointed the Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Highlights of recent seasons include solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Queens Hall, Edinburgh, his debut at Carnegie Hall performing Brahms’s Double Concerto with Daniel Hope, as well as the premiere of a new concerto written especially for him by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Recent releases under his exclusive Chandos Records contract include Britten’s Cello Symphony, the Delius, Elgar and Lutoslawski cello concertos, and discs of Martinu’s and Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano, and an ongoing series of Britsh sonatas with his brother Huw Watkins. In 2009 he became the first ever Music Director of the English Chamber Orchestra, and also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra from 2009 to 2012. Since winning the 2002 Leeds Conducting Competition he has conducted all the major British orchestras, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Swedish and Vienna Chamber Orchestras, Prague Symphony, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Tampere Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony, Queensland and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras.

Cello: Domenico Montagnana and Matteo Goffriller in Venice, c.1730

DAVID FINCKELCellist David Finckel’s multifaceted career as concert performer, recording artist, educator, arts administrator, and cultural entrepreneur places him in the ranks of today’s most influential classical musicians. In recognition of artistic excellence and achievement in the arts, David Finckel and his long time recital partner, pianist Wu Han, were named Musical America’s 2012 Musicians of the Year, one of the highest honors granted by the music industry. David Finckel’s concert appearances as orchestral soloist and duo recitalist take him to the world’s most prestigious concert series and festivals, and his wide-ranging musical activities also include the launch of ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed, Internet-based recording company. David Finckel and Wu Han serve as Artistic Directors of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Chamber Music Today Festival in Korea. They are also the founders and Artistic Directors of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival in the San Francisco Bay Area. David Finckel has achieved universal

renown for his passionate commitment to nurturing the careers of countless young artists through a wide array of education initiatives. For many years, he taught alongside the late Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. He has appeared annually on the Aspen Music Festival’s Distinguished Artist Master Class series and in various educational programs across the country. In 2013, David Finckel and Wu Han launched a chamber music studio at Aspen Music Festival, and under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, David Finckel and Wu Han direct the LG Chamber Music School, which serves dozens of young musicians in Korea annually. David is Professor of Cello at The Juilliard School, and Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University.

As cellist of the Emerson String Quartet for thirty-four years, David Finckel won nine Grammy Awards including two honors for “Best Classical Album,” three Gramophone Magazine Awards, and the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, awarded in 2004 for the first time to a chamber ensemble; and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, Bard College and Middlebury College. Through its insightful performances, brilliant artistry, and technical mastery, the Emerson String Quartet established itself among the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, playing over 100 concerts annually on the world’s most prestigious stages.

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DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY MEDALLION OF DISTINCTION

LAWRENCE DUTTONLawrence Dutton, violist of the nine-time Grammy winning Emerson String Quartet, has collaborated with many of the world’s great performing artists, including Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Oscar Shumsky, Leon Fleisher, Sir Paul McCartney, Renee Fleming, Sir James Galway, Andre Previn, Menahem Pressler, Walter

Trampler, Rudolf Firkusny, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Lynn Harrell, Joseph Kalichstein, Misha Dichter, Jan DeGaetani, Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, and Elmar Oliveira, among others. He has also performed as guest artist with numerous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. Since 2001, Mr. Dutton has been the Artistic Advisor of the Hoch Chamber Music Series, presenting three concerts at Concordia College in Bronxville, NY. He has been featured on three albums with the Grammy winning jazz bassist John Patitucci on the Concord Jazz label and with the Beaux Arts Trio recorded the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Op. 57, and the Fauré G minor Piano Quartet, Op. 45, on the Philips label. His Aspen Music Festival recording with Jan DeGaetani for Bridge records was nominated for a Grammy award. Mr. Dutton has appeared as soloist with many American and European orchestras including those of Germany, Belgium, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, and Virginia, among others. He has also appeared as guest artist at the music festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Ravinia, La Jolla, the Heifetz Institute, the Great Mountains Festival in Korea, Chamber Music Northwest, the Rome Chamber Music Festival and the Great Lakes Festival. With the late Isaac Stern he had collaborated in the International Chamber Music Encounters both at Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. Currently Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at Stony Brook University and at the Robert McDuffie School for Strings at Mercer University in Georgia, Mr. Dutton began violin studies with Margaret Pardee and on viola with Francis Tursi at the Eastman School. He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Lillian Fuchs and has received Honorary Doctorates from Middlebury College in Vermont, The College of Wooster in Ohio, Bard College in New York and The Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. Most recently, Mr. Dutton and the other members of the Emerson Quartet were presented the 2015 Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award from Chamber Music America and were recipients of the Avery Fisher Award in 2004. They were also inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2010 and were Musical America’s Ensemble of the year for 2000. Mr. Dutton resides in Bronxville, NY with his wife violinist Elizabeth Lim-Dutton and their three sons Luke, Jesse and Samuel.

Mr. Dutton exclusively uses Thomastik Spirocore strings.

Viola: Samuel Zygmuntowicz (Brooklyn, NY 2003)

PHILIP SETZERViolinist Philip Setzer, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began studying violin at the age of five with his parents, both former violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Rafael

Druian, and later at the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky. In 1967, Mr. Setzer won second prize at the Marjorie Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, DC, and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. He has appeared with the National Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony (David Robertson, conductor), Memphis Symphony (Michael Stern), New Mexico and Puerto Rico Symphonies (Guillermo Figueroa), Omaha and Anchorage Symphonies (David Loebel) and on several occasions with the Cleveland Orchestra (Louis Lane). He has also participated in the Marlboro Music Festival. Mr. Setzer has been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. His article about those workshops appeared in The New York Times on the occasion of Isaac Stern’s 80th birthday celebration. He also teaches as Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at SUNY Stony Brook and has given master classes at schools around the world, including The Curtis Institute, London’s Royal Academy of Music, The San Francisco Conservatory, UCLA, The Cleveland Institute of Music and The Mannes School. Mr. Setzer is also the Director of the Shouse Institute, the teaching division of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit. The Noise of Time, a groundbreaking theater collaboration between the Emerson Quartet and Simon McBurney--about the life of Shostakovich--was based on an original idea of Mr. Setzer’s. In April of 1989, Mr. Setzer premiered Paul Epstein’s Matinee Concerto. This piece, dedicated to and written for Mr. Setzer, has since been performed by him in Hartford, New York, Cleveland, Boston and Aspen. Recently, Mr. Setzer has also been touring and recording the piano trios of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Dvorak with David Finckel and Wu Han.

Violin: Samuel Zygmuntowicz (NY, NY 2011)

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DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS

Professor Dennis AssanisDr. Assanis is the Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University. He is a world-renowned scientist, engineer, and educator. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and the Society of Automotive Engineering. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008. Dr. Assanis has published over 250 journal articles. He holds six patents and has edited five books. His research in internal combustion en-gines and automotive powertrain engineering is at the forefront of energy research, and is highly respected all over the world. The importance of his work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards and hon-ors. Dr. Assanis has mentored more than 50 Ph.D. stu-dents in their dissertation completion, and in mentoring these students, he has significantly helped to foster the intergenerational transmission of the passion and skills needed to conduct ground-breaking research inquiry.

Professor John M. Canty, Jr. Dr. Canty is the Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University at Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the Amer-ican College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, and the American Heart Association. He is widely recognized as an outstanding physician-scientist on the national and international fronts, and a sterling academic role model for students and faculty at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Canty’s pioneering research is defined by the breadth and interdisciplinary approach he brings to it, from physiology and biochemistry to stem cell biology and nanotechnology. Prior to his work, the phenomenon of myocardial hibernation was misclassi-fied and misunderstood. Through his development of a unique animal model and inventive and elegant experi-ments, he challenged this misconception and redefined the paradigm of hibernation and sudden cardiac death. Professor Canty has achieved international prominence for his distinguished scholarly work and has elevated the standards of scholarship of his colleagues with-in and beyond his academic field. An “internationally renowned” scholar who is regarded as, “the world’s expert in myocardial hibernation,” his research has impacted millions of patients with severe ischemic cardiomyopathy.

DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY INDUCTEES

Professor Lawrence Dutton A world-class violist, Mr. Dutton, Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, is a member of the nine-time Grammy winning Emerson String Quartet, and he has collaborated with many of the world’s great performing artists. He has also performed as a guest artist with nu-merous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. Since 2001, Mr. Dut-ton has been the Artistic Advisor of the Hoch Chamber Music Series, and he has been featured on three albums with the Grammy winning jazz bassist, John Patitucci, on the Concord Jazz label and with the Beaux Arts Trio. His Aspen Music Festival recording with Jan DeGaetani for Bridge records was nominated for a Grammy award. Mr. Dutton has appeared as soloist with many American and European orchestras. He has also appeared as a guest artist at the music festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Ravinia, La Jolla, the Heifetz Institute, the Great Moun-tains Festival in Korea, Chamber Music Northwest, the Rome Chamber Music Festival, and the Great Lakes Festival. With the late Isaac Stern, he had collaborated in the International Chamber Music Encounters both at Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. Mr. Dutton and the other members of the Emerson Quartet, were presented the 2015 Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award from Chamber Music America, and were recipients of the Avery Fisher Award in 2004. They were also inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2010, and were Musical America’s Ensemble of the year for 2000.

Professor Jessica FridrichDr. Fridrich is a Professor in the Department of Electri-cal and Computer Engineering at the University at Bing-hamton. Her main research areas are steganography, the science and art of message hiding, and the forensics of digital multimedia. Professor Fridrich is viewed by her peers as a “superstar” and the world’s foremost au-thority in the field of steganography. In 2009, in addition to her many research papers, she published “Stegan-ography in Digital Media: Principles, Algorithms, and Application,” (Cambridge University Press) which has rapidly become the seminal graduate textbook in stegan-ography. In the areas of forensics, she has developed a now patented method for “finger printing” digital photos so that photos can be reliably linked with a camera. Her method is the only one that has been officially approved

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for use as evidence in forensics cases in a court of law. In total, Professor Fridrich’s research has resulted in over 150 refereed publications, which have been cited over 12,000 times, and seven patents, all of which have been successfully commercialized.

Professor Benjamin HsiaoAn outstanding scholar, Dr. Hsiao, Professor of Chem-istry at Stony Brook University, has a distinguished na-tional and international research reputation in polymer science. Dr. Hsiao has published over 442 scientific papers, 42 reviews and chapters in books and ency-clopedias, 34 issued patents (20 U.S. patents) and 15 pending patent applications, and two books. There are over 29,000 total citations of his publications. The major accomplishments of his research are: (1) development of frontier synchrotron X-ray scattering for polymer re-search, (2) advancement of fundamental understanding of polymer crystallization, and (3) applications of nano-fiber technology for improving health and environment. Based on these accomplishments, he was elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002, Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2011, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011, Fellow of National Acade-my of Inventors (NAI) in 2013, Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2015, received the Chang-Ji-ang Professorship from the Education Ministry of China in 2008, and received the 2015 Cooperative Research Award in Applied Polymer Science from the American Chemical Society. The quality of his work elevates the standards of scholarship both within and beyond the polymer community, allowing him to develop significant technology, including a breakthrough technology for water purification.

Professor Istvan KecskesDr. Kecskes was appointed Professor of Educational Theory and Practice at the University at Albany’s School of Education in 1999. He is considered the father of the discipline of intercultural pragmatics and is the author of its defining text. He is the chief organizer behind the na-scent discipline of Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Re-search. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Kecskes has amassed a strong record of scholarly productivity, international leadership, and academic influence. In over 40 articles, 10 books, six edited collections, and 21 book chapters, Dr. Kecskes has provided integrative insights that span many related fields, such as, linguistics, pragmatics,


multilingualism, language development, and language education. He has delivered more than 40 keynote and plenary presentations at conferences around the world since 2007, just one of many indications of the high regard in which he is held by national and international colleagues. He is the elected President of two academic associations, the American Pragmatics Association and the Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Research Associ-ation. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Research Award from the University at Albany, and the Chancel-lor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.

Professor Chang Kee JungAn exceptional and leading scientist, Dr. Jung, Profes-sor of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook Univer-sity, has an excellent record of teaching and service to the University and the broader community, and for his major scientific achievements and leadership role in the study of neutrinos and nucleon decay. Since 1990, when he established the Stony Brook Nucleon decay and Neutrino Physics group, he rose steadily in international recognition due to his deep understanding of particle physics, his strategic thinking as well as his communi-cation and organizational skills. His work at the Super-Kamiokande, the K2K and the T2K experiments and his studies on nucleon decay, are widely recognized and made him an international leader in neutrino research working in collaboration with Professor Takaaki Kajita from the University of Tokyo, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has recently embarked on helping to design and build the next generation of neutrino experiments in the U.S. Professor Jung also had tremendous successes in both graduate and post-doctoral training, in undergraduate research experience and in classroom teaching.

Professor Daniel KleinA leading researcher in the development and course of mood disorders, Dr. Klein, Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University, is an extraordinary scholar. His work on chronic depression influenced the clas-sification of depression in the last two editions of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1994, 2013). In addition, he was a PI on several pioneering clinical trials demonstrating the efficacy of combining pharmacother-apy and psychotherapy for treating chronic depression. For the last 15 years, his work has focused on the

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identification of precursors and risk factors for depres-sion in early childhood, and tracing their influence on the development of abnormalities in the processing of emotionally salient (e.g., reward, threat) information and neuroendocrine system dysregulation. Dr. Klein has published over 300 articles and chapters. His work has been continuously supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. He has received significant awards for mid-career and career research contributions; was elected President of two major scientific societies; and has received local and national awards for mentoring the next generation of scientists.

Professor Robert K. LazarsfeldDr. Lazarsfeld is a Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University. He is one of the great algebraic ge-ometers of our time, having made numerous deep and influential contributions to many themes of this classical field, central for mathematics. These themes can be uni-fied by the name “positivity in algebraic geometry,” and Dr. Lazarsfeld is an undisputed leader in this important direction of research. His scholarly achievements are marked with numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, membership at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Profes-sorship at the University of Michigan, and very recently the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society. Dr. Lazarsfeld is also a great teacher, adviser and men-tor who has brought up generations of undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom have become prominent mathematicians in their own right. He provides indispensable service to a broad mathematical community by organizing various programs and workshops, editing and refereeing for a number of math journals, and serving as an external reviewer for various institutes and departments.

Professor Steven R. LevineDr. Levine is a Professor of Neurology and Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He is an internationally renowned researcher, prominent scholar, major contributor, clinical trialist, and thought leader in the study of stroke and cerebrovascular disease. Contin-uously NIH funded for three decades (over $13.7M direct funding), since joining SUNY in 2010, he initiated sever-al SUNY-wide clinical trial networks. He has published over 170 original peer-reviewed papers (several with over 200 citations) and made new, significant, distin-guished advances in stroke treatment and epidemiology.

He co-authored the seminal/landmark, NIH-funded t-PA stroke study (cited over 4,700 times) – resulting in the first FDA-approved treatment for stroke. He linked crack cocaine use to stroke and pioneered telemedicine for stroke, creating a new research and clinical field. He has been an invited lecturer on five continents, served on Executive Committees, Editorial Boards, and Guideline Writing Committees, mentored over 30 stroke fellows (many academic faculty), received numerous national research awards/honors from major organizations/peers for research and teaching, and consults to NIH (grant reviews), AHA/ASA, NYSDOH, and industry.

Professor Michael Leroy ObergDr. Oberg is a Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo. He is one of the leading national and international authorities on the intersections of colonial English and Native American societies. He has published seven books with premier university presses and is under contract for two more, in addition to a variety of seminal articles and other publications. Dr. Oberg is a master ethnohistorian who mines the scarce historical record for Native American voices and consequently breaks new ground in much of his published work. The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand, for instance, examines the well-known “Lost Colony” of Roanoke from the perspective of the Algonquian people who determined the fate of the colonists sent there by Sir Walter Raleigh. Similar-ly, in his textbook (one of only two in the field without multiple authors), rather than attempting to survey all Native American societies, as is the convention, he uses a smaller number of societies as a lens for a more in-depth and productive study of 500 years of interactions with Europeans and their descendents. As a measure of the depth of Dr. Oberg’s knowledge and the care he takes in his research, he has been invited by both the U.S. Justice Department and the Haudenosaunee nations to write expert reports.

Professor Philip SetzerAn exceptionally gifted violinist, Mr. Setzer, Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, has studied with Josef Gingold (1956-1958) and Rafael Druian (1958-1969); then while at the Juilliard School he studied with Oscar Shumsky (1969-1974). In 1967, Professor Setzer won second prize at the Meriwether Post Competition in Washington, DC, and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. Professor Setzer has also participated in the Marlboro Music Festival (1974-1975), and has been a reg-

ular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. His article about those workshops appeared in The New York Times on the occasion of the late lsaac Stern’s 80th birthday celebration. Mr. Setzer has given master classes at schools around the world, including The Curtis Institute, London’s Royal Academy of Music, The San Francisco Conservatory, UCLA, The Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Mannes School. In April 1989, Mr. Setzer premiered Paul Epstein’s Matinee Concer-to. This piece, dedicated to and written for Professor Setzer, has since been performed by him in Hartford, New York, Cleveland, Boston, and Aspen. Professor Setzer is a member of the Emerson String Quartet, which is widely regarded as one of the three most prominent and accomplished American string quartets of the last 50 years (the Guarneri and Juilliard Quar-tets are the other two), and one of the five great string quartets internationally of the last 100 years. Together as a quartet for almost 40 years, they have performed approximately 80 concerts per year in the most storied venues throughout the world, and recorded more than 30 records and compact discs for Deutsche Grammo-phon and SONY.

Professor Allen TannenbaumDr. Tannenbaum, Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, is an outstanding educator in the areas of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sci-ence. He is an internationally renowned scientist, with a first-class worldwide reputation in a spectacular array of areas spanning from Computer Science to Medical Imaging to Systems and Control to Computer Vision to Applied Mathematics and to Image Processing. He is a recognized leader and pioneer in multiple disciplines, and has made fundamental contributions in algebraic geometry, control theory, image processing, computer vision, and biomedical imaging. In Computer Science, his research has focused on computer vision and image analysis. He made significant contributions in many distinct applied areas, including geometric invariance theory for image processing, geometric flow for shape analysis and for image segmentation, statistical knowl-edge-based image segmentation, conformal flattening colonoscopy, and optimal mass transport for brain registration and warping.

Professor Henri TiedgeDr. Tiedge is a Professor of Physiology and Pharma-cology and Professor of Neurology at SUNY Downstate

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Medical Center. He is a world-renowned neuroscien-tist whose ground-breaking discoveries explain how regulatory RNAs control brain function. His research has transformed our understanding of how RNA regulation underlies higher brain functions such as memory and cognition, and how RNA dysregulation causes neuro-logical disease. These advances have earned Dr. Tiedge widespread acclaim and recognition. His national and in-ternational preeminence and reputation are reflected in the numerous awards and honors that he has received. He has enjoyed substantial and uninterrupted funding from the DOD, NSF, and NIH, among others, for the entirety of his 22-year career. Dr. Tiedge has organized a number of scientific conferences, including a National Academy of Sciences Colloquium at the NAS Beckman Center in Irvine, California. He also participates in inter-national scientific exchange via repeated invitation as a Visiting Professor to Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is the President of the Robert F. Furchgott Society, inaugurated by the late SUNY Downstate Medical Center Nobel Laureate in 2005 to promote the research of exceptional junior scientists.

Professor Nancy J. TomesDr. Tomes is a Professor of History who has been teach-ing at Stony Brook University since 1978. She is one of the nation’s most widely recognized and respected figures in the History of Medicine. In her innovative and prolific scholarly career, she has published three major mono-graphs, four edited volumes, 18 peer-reviewed journal ar-ticles, 20 peer-reviewed book chapters, and seven major review essays, and has produced numerous public orient-ed publications and online information sites. Dr. Tomes’ monumental 1998 book The Gospel of Germs: Men, Wom-en, and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard University Press) changed the way historians and the public alike think of germ theory and won her the field’s two top aca-demic prizes, the Welch Medal (American Association for the History of Medicine) and Watson-Davis Prize (History of Science Society). She continues to inform as a public intellectual about popular and governmental responses to medicine, most recently in media commentary about the Ebola epidemic. Dr. Tomes’ newest book project, Remak-ing the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Mod-ern Medicine turned Patients into Consumers (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), is expected to generate another broad debate about the social and political landscape of American healthcare. Professor Tomes has won numerous prestigious research grants and fellow-ships, which since 2000 include major awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ahmanson Foundation,

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National Humanities Center, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, National Library of Medicine, and National Humanities Center. Dr. Tomes has also been a visible national leader in her field. She served as 2012-2014 President of the American Association for the History of Medicine, the field’s chief professional organization. In recognition of her wide intellectual impact, she received the 2011 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Public Health History of American Public Health Association.

Professor Jean Wactawski-WendeA renowned epidemiologist and a global leader in wom-en’s health research, Dr. Wactawski-Wende, Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health and Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo, has had an exceptionally high impact at the national and international level. Professor Wactawski-Wende’s scholarly contributions continue to transform healthcare practice for women in the U.S. and around the world. Of particular note, is her lead-ership role in the landmark Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a multi-million dollar long-term national health study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that is the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the U.S.; involving more than 162,000 women across the nation. Building on this critical body of work, her current research addressing factors affecting the health of post-menopausal women has an enormous impact on clinical practice and disease prevention, as well as in expanding current understanding of long-term health in women worldwide.

Professor Gary WallerDr. Waller is a Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at SUNY Purchase. He is a prolific scholar whose work encompasses a range of academic fields: late medieval, renaissance, and early modern English Literature and Popular Culture, Shakespeare, Theater History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Literary Theory. He has published over 20 books, written nearly 100 book chapters and scholarly articles, and presented scores of guest lectures and conference papers. Early in his career, Professor Waller’s pioneering scholar-ship opened the established literary canon to include the work of women authors like Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth. In the middle of his career, while an academic administrator, he organized and authored work that integrated developments in theory into the curriculum and pedagogy of literary studies. Dr. Waller’s most re-

cent work on the Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern literature and popular culture brings together his interests in literature, theology, psychoanalysis, and popular culture. All of this work has earned him a na-tional and international reputation. In the words of one of his peers, Professor Waller “puts scholarly argument in the service of fundamental questions that lie at the heart of the human condition.”

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSORS

Professor Sharon A. BrangmanDr. Brangman is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief of Geriatric Medicine at Upstate Medical Univer-sity. She is a local, regional, national and international leader in the field of geriatrics. She has established unique clinical programs that enhance the care of the elderly, such as the “ACE” Team (Acute Care of the Elderly) at University Hospital. She has contributed to University Hospital’s nursing care for the elderly, leading to the receipt of the Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders certification and the establishment of an emergency department for older adults at the Communi-ty Campus. She served as an Expert Panelist at a White House Conference on Aging and Agenda Development, and was a member of the National Advisory Commit-tee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s project “Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses.” She was President of the American Geriat-rics Society in 2010/11, and served as Chair of its Board of Directors in 2011/12. She is a recipient of two SUNY Health Network of Excellence Grants awarded in 2014. This network includes geriatricians from SUNY Up-state Medical University, Stony Brook University, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and the University at Buffalo. Dr. Brangman has received numerous awards, from within SUNY and from a variety of outside agencies and professional societies, including many for outstanding service. She is a leading advocate for care of the elderly in Central New York, a highly sought after clinician, who is the consultant of choice for medical professionals caring for aging parents.

Professor Barbara G. DelanoDr. Delano is Chair and Professor in the Department of Community Health Services at Downstate Medical Cen-ter. Her service has touched on a wide range of areas in public health and medicine. Credentialed in internal medicine, nephrology, and public health, Dr. Delano has

focused much effort on the prevention and control of end-stage renal disease, especially among underserved populations. A national leader in promoting home dial-ysis, Dr. Delano was responsible for the establishment of the first inner-city home hemodialysis unit. She has worked tirelessly with patients, their families, and their health care providers to deal with the stresses of the disease and the treatment. Dr. Delano greatly contribut-ed to the development of the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and in preparing for the school’s initial accreditation in 2010 and re-accred-itation in 2015. Dr. Delano is the author of 83 articles in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, and has been the recipient of numerous research grants, including one from the Health Care Financing Administration for $2.45 million. Professor Delano’s exceptional service has been recognized by numerous awards and honors. She was inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, and received the Clarence and Mary Dennis Dedicated Service Award, and the Master Teach-er Award in Preventive Medicine, both from the Alumni Association, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Professor Karen Johnson-WeinerDr. Johnson-Weiner is a Professor of Linguistic An-thropology at SUNY Potsdam. She has national and international prominence as an author and consultant in Amish and Mennonite Studies. Dr. Johnson-Wein-er’s commitment to the Amish, however, is not simply limited to scholarly investigation and publication. The testimony of numerous references also called attention to her ability to “give voice” to Amish concerns. For example, she has committed significant personal time and resources to assist the Amish in understanding legal documents, proceedings, and proposals; and has assisted attorneys, social workers, and health care providers in understanding the cultural and religious practices of the Amish. She frequently provides expert commentary in interviews and national broadcasts. Her 2007 book, Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools was the first in the series of Young Center Books in Anabaptist & Pietist Studies, published by The John Hopkins Press, and she was a principal commentator on the PBS American Experience doc-umentary, The Amish. Dr. Johnson-Weiner’s standard textbook publications in the field also include New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State (Cornell University Press, 2010); and The Amish (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). In fall 2015,

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Dr. Johnson-Weiner was awarded a Snowden Fel-lowship at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies (Elizabethtown College); her research has also been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation.

Professor Elizabeth TuckerDr. Tucker, of Binghamton University, is the author of five books and a recipient of Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Service, and is internationally known as an expert in children’s and adolescents’ folklore. She has served numerous times as Undergraduate Director and Graduate Director of the English Department and as Faculty Master of Dickinson Community (1991-1999) and the Apartment Communities (2006-2010). In 2011, students and staff of Dickinson Community established the Libby Tucker Center. Dr. Tucker has also served as President of the American Folklore Society’s Children’s Folklore Section and Editor of the journal Children’s Folklore Review and two other academic journals as well. She recently completed a three-year term as President of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, and she has been an active member of the Executive Board of the New York Folklore Society. In the Binghamton area, she has been a leader in fund-raising and service to schools.

DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSORS

Professor Richard A. CourageDr. Courage, a member of the English Department at Westchester Community College for over 25 years, is widely recognized as a master teacher and a widely praised author. While his major impact takes place within the classroom, he is an award winner scholar with a sterling record of publications and professional presentations, and author of “The Muse of Bronzeville,” a book tracing the history and work of African-Amer-ican intellectuals of Chicago, from 1932 to 1950. His second book, “Root, Branch, and Blossom: Social Ori-gins of Chicago’s New Negro Intellectuals and Artists” is under contract and will soon be published. He has co-directed the National Endowment for the Humanities programs for teachers of English. He has been awarded a Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Teaching, as well as a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. The Westchester Community

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College Foundation has also recognized his work with an award for Excellence in Scholarship. His colleagues recognize and praise his extraordinary dedication to student learning and success, and praise his leadership as Coordinator of the Writing Program for the English Department, and as an Assessment Fellow where he led the campus response to SUNY’s Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Initiative.

Professor Mark L. FowlerDr. Fowler is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Binghamton University. From his very first semester on campus in the fall 1999, Dr. Fowler has excelled as a teacher both inside and outside the classroom. Inside the classroom he has excelled in a variety of settings: from teaching Binghamton’s largest undergraduate course to small, challenging graduate courses. Outside the classroom he selflessly devotes much time to help-ing students. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and twice awarded the Elec-trical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department’s Outstanding Faculty Instructor Award. He has made significant contributions aimed at improving pedagogy: employing innovative teaching methods and publishing papers about them; developing exceptional course mate-rials and making them openly available online; improving overall pedagogy by learning a complete restructuring of ECE curricula; and restricting ECE graduate programs to better serve educational outcomes. He has served on numerous advisory committees on campus and has consulted outside of SUNY on the assessment of educa-tional outcomes.

Professor Carleen GrahamDr. Graham has been the Director of the award-winning Crane Opera Ensemble since 1991 at SUNY Potsdam. Her opera productions have received awards from the National Opera Association, The American Prize and the American College Theater Festival. She has been instrumental in the development of the Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize. The quadrennial award seeks to encourage the creation of new opera works that explore themes related to tolerance, inclu-sion or the celebration of diversity. The Crane Opera Ensemble presented the first winning operas in a full production in November 2014 which recently won 1st Place in the National Opera Association’s 2014-15 Collegiate Production Competition. Deeply committed to the pedagogy and teaching of opera and music the-

atre, she teaches Performances Practices for Singers, Opera Literature and Directing Musical Theater and has taught other courses such as First Year Success Seminar, Teaching Opera to Children, Opera, Research & Advocacy, and The Music & Culture of Italy. She is an active presenter at conferences and her publications include articles for The Opera Journal, Classical Singer magazine, The Journal of Singing, and Opera Ameri-ca Perspectives Series. Dr. Graham is the co-founder (along with MET Opera star Stephanie Blythe) and Executive Director of the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Opera Association and was recently elected to Vice President of Conventions. She earned an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University; a M.M. & G.D. in vocal performance from New England Conserva-tory of Music, and a B.M. in music education from Ohio University. Student evaluations consistently reveal that Dr. Graham is enthusiastic about teaching, is committed to a student-centered learning process, provides a nur-turing learning environment, and creates an atmosphere of creative decision-making that is infectious. Faculty universally regard her as a collaborative colleague who “wields significant influence on the direction of opera education,” “is one of the most dynamic and committed educators on campus,” and “whose professionalism is a balanced blend of competence and cordiality.”

Professor Nancy HollingsworthDr. Hollingsworth, a member of the Department of Biochemistry at Stony Brook University, is an excellent scientist and teacher. She is successfully combining having an active, funded research lab in which she uses genetics and biochemistry to understand meiosis with teaching genetics to students of all ages and types. She has been an outstanding and innovative educator for both undergraduate and graduate students, using techniques that engage the students, such as Interac-tive PowerPoint slides, Clicker questions, generation of question banks and discussion boards. She has the ability and mastery to take complicated biology topics and, using the Socratic Method, she allows the students to become masters of the material and fully understand the topics. She enjoys teaching at all levels, and has been a wonderful and effective mentor promoting ex-cellence and commitment to her students, trainees and junior colleagues. Professor Hollingsworth maintains an open door policy for her students and is generous with her time and advice. At the same time she maintains

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high standards for the rigorous courses she teaches. Professor Hollingsworth has received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Since that award, she has generated new question banks for her students and made her lectures more interactive. She has introduced rational mathematical-like explanations and analysis to her courses, an approach that impacts and enhances student learning. She has also initiated science lectures and biology topics in the local high schools where she devotes her time.

Professor Ronald M. LabuzDr. Labuz is a Professor of Graphic Design at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC). His career spans over three decades of inspired teaching that engag-es students in creative, experiential, project-based learning. A Full Professor since 1991, Professor Labuz expertly teaches a myriad of courses, and compassion-ately mentors former and current students within the Graphic Arts program, in which he serves as Coordina-tor. Dr. Labuz led the total redesign of the art program and serves as a Teaching Fellow in MVCC’s New Faculty Institute. He currently serves on 16 separate col-lege-wide committees as well as the Faculty Council of Community Colleges. He is the recipient of Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Professional Service, Faculty Service, and Scholarship and Creative Activities. Dr. La-buz has published 15 books including Faces of the Mo-hawk Valley which features MVCC students. Professor Labuz’s contributions through his students continue to reverberate within professional communities throughout the world as his mentees have gone on to excel in their own highly successful careers in Graphic Arts.

Professor Robert R. RogersDr. Rogers is a Professor of Mathematics at SUNY Fre-donia. He joined the faculty in 1987 and was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2003. His expertise is in the areas of functional analysis and the history of math-ematics and its relation to pedagogy. Professor Rogers earns exceptional evaluations from his students and many of those with whom he has worked closely have achieved great success after graduation. His students praise him as “a superb role model who is dedicated to his students,” as “being deeply involved in student activities outside the classroom,” and for having “high expectations and ensuring that students succeed if they choose to.” His colleagues and students alike admire his

unique, effective style of teaching, and his willingness to think outside the box in service of the learning process. In addition, Dr. Rogers is extraordinarily generous with his time outside the classroom, having served, among other things, as editor of the New York State Mathe-matics Teachers’ Journal (NYSMTJ); as president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State; as a representative in the New York State STEM Education Collaborative; as chair and governor of the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) Seaway Section; and as co-founder of Project PRIME (Profes-sional Resources in Mathematics Education). Finally, his professional development, as judged by scholarly activity, has been significant: he has co-authored a text-book in the SUNY Open Textbook Program, published 13 articles in refereed journals, four book chapters, and 11 articles as editor of the NYSMTJ. In recognition of his accomplishments, Dr. Rogers has earned the Fredonia President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the MAA Seaway Section Distinguished Teaching Award, and the MAA Meritorious Service Award – Seaway Section.

Professor Keith WilliamsDr. Williams is a Professor of Physiology and Pharma-cology at Downstate Medical Center. He is an inter-nationally recognized neuroscientist and scholar who joined the campus in 1999. He has developed novel and valuable approaches to teaching that epitomize the SUNY Downstate Medical goal of interactive teaching, student participation and mastery of complex concepts. Students benefit greatly from his guidance, leader-ship, and teaching skills in ways that are integral to the development of future physicians. He is a role model for faculty and is consistently ranked by students among the best faculty in the pre-clinical years. Professor Williams has created and managed courses that are known for their careful and detailed organization, smooth running, and collegiality. These attributes have been repeatedly recognized by awards, including Teacher of the Year and Outstanding Educator of the Year of the Preclinical Faculty. Professor Williams played a key role in SUNY Downstate Medical’s recent curriculum renewal, serving on the Steering Committee and the Executive Steering Committee, and he currently serves as Unit Director for the first segment of the Medical School curriculum.

Dr. Amit Bandyopadhyay Distinguished Service ProfessorDepartment of Architecture and

Construction ManagementFarmingdale State College

Dr. Constantia Constantinou Distinguished Librarian

University LibrariesStony Brook University

Dr. Wendy Knapp Pogozelski Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of ChemistrySUNY College at Geneseo

Dr. Norman Goodman Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of SociologyStony Brook University

Ms. Trudi E. Jacobson Distinguished Librarian

University LibrariesUniversity at Albany

Mr. Steve Keeler Distinguished Service Professor

School of Media and the ArtsCayuga Community College

Dr. Janet Nepkie Distinguished Service Professor

Department of MusicSUNY College at Oneonta

Dr. Henry J. Steck Distinguished Service ProfessorDepartment of Political Science

SUNY College at Cortland

Dr. John Tagg Distinguished Professor

Department of Art HistoryBinghamton University

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DISTINGUISHED LIBRARIAN2011 Constantia Constantinou, Maritime College2011 Trudi E. Jacobson, University at Albany

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR1988 K. Daniel O’Leary, Stony Brook University1989 Robert J. Genco, University at Buffalo1989 John Milnor, Stony Brook University1989 David J. Triggle, University at Buffalo1990 James Glimm, Stony Brook University1990 Bruce Jackson, University at Buffalo1992 Benjamin Chu, Stony Brook University1992 Philip Coppens, University at Buffalo1992 F. Thomas Farrell, Binghamton University1993 H. Blaine Lawson, Stony Brook University1995 Lee Ehrman, Purchase College1995 Jorge J. E. Gracia, University at Buffalo1995 Iwao Ojima, Stony Brook University1996 Lorne M. Mendell, Stony Brook University1996 Solomon W. Polachek, Binghamton University1997 Don Ihde, Stony Brook University1997 Paras N. Prasad, University at Buffalo1997 Sargur N. Srihari, University at Buffalo1997 Alfred Stracher, Downstate Medical Center1998 Robert C. Aller, Stony Brook University1998 Michael A. Little, Binghamton University1998 Linda Patia Spear, Binghamton University1998 Dennis P. Sullivan, Stony Brook University1998 Donald James Weidner, Stony Brook University1998 Armen Zemanian, Stony Brook University1999 Terrence Fitzgerald, SUNY Cortland1999 Daniel C. Levy, University at Albany2000 William J. Lennarz, Stony Brook University2000 Richard M. Weist, SUNY Fredonia2001 Douglas J. Futuyma, Stony Brook University2001 Gilbert Kalish, Stony Brook University2001 Israel Kleinberg, Stony Brook University2001 Bruce Douglas McCombe, University at Buffalo2001 Charles A. Micchelli, University at Albany2001 Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, Stony Brook University2002 Gerald Benjamin, SUNY New Paltz2002 Eric Block, University at Albany2002 Konstantin K. Likharev, Stony Brook University2002 Dennis Tedlock, University at Buffalo2002 Eckard A. F. Wimmer, Stony Brook University2003 Marlene Belfort, University at Albany2003 Fu-Pen Chiang, Stony Brook University2003 David M. Clark, SUNY New Paltz2003 Lorne M. Golub, Stony Brook University2003 Arthur Patrick Grollman, Stony Brook University2003 Cindy Lee, Stony Brook University

2003 Serge Luryi, Stony Brook University2003 Barry M. McCoy, Stony Brook University2003 Ralph R. Miller, Binghamton University2003 Edward V. Shuryak, Stony Brook University2003 Rolf Sternglanz, Stony Brook University2003 Francis J. Yammarino, Binghamton University2004 Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany2004 Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany2004 Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University2004 Mark N. Cohen, SUNY Plattsburgh2004 John G. Fleagle, Stony Brook University2004 Marvin R. Goldfried, Stony Brook University2004 Arie E. Kaufman, Stony Brook University2004 Jeffrey Levinton, Stony Brook University2004 Myron J. Mitchell, SUNY ESF2004 Jeffrey Segal, Stony Brook University2004 Barry Smith, University at Buffalo2004 Krishnaswami Srihari, Binghamton University2004 George F. Sterman, Stony Brook University2005 Nicholas N. Fisher, Stony Brook University2005 Elizabeth Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University2005 Subal C. Kumbhakar, Binghamton University2005 Kajal Lahiri, University at Albany2005 Clinton T. Rubin, Stony Brook University2005 Robert K. S. Wong, Downstate Medical Center2006 Isaac Ehrlich, University at Buffalo2006 William H. Isbell, Binghamton University2006 Herman Lebovics, Stony Brook University2006 Stuart G. A. McLaughlin, Stony Brook University2006 Gene D. Sprouse, Stony Brook University2006 Lois M. Weist, University at Buffalo2006 David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University2007 Timothy Baroni, SUNY Cortland2007 Gregory Belenky, Stony Brook University2007 Richard Cross, Upstate Medical University2007 Rodolphe Gasche, University at Buffalo2007 Mark Lenzenweger, Binghamton University2007 David Mark, University at Buffalo2007 Makau Mutua, University at Buffalo2007 Thomas O’Connor, Binghamton University2007 Miriam Rafailovich, Stony Brook University2007 Alberto Rey, SUNY Fredonia2007 Stephen David Ross, Binghamton University2007 Frederick Sachs, University at Buffalo2007 Qasim Zaidi, College of Optometry2008 Jorge Benach, Stony Brook University2008 Frank Bright, University at Buffalo2008 Douglas Clements, University at Buffalo2008 David Felder, University at Buffalo2008 William Jusko, University at Buffalo2008 Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo2008 Mulchand Patel, University at Buffalo2008 Roger Rosenblatt, Stony Brook University

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2008 Stephen Rudin, University at Buffalo2009 Evelyn Bromet, Stony Brook University2009 Ann Colley, Buffalo State College2009 Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University2009 Thomas Dublin, Binghamton University2009 Daniel Dykhuizen, Stony Brook University2009 Lawrence Fialkow, SUNY New Paltz2009 Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University2009 Keqin Li, SUNY New Paltz2009 Randall McGuire, Binghamton University2009 Esther Takeuchi, Stony Brook University2010 Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University2010 Leonard Epstein, University at Buffalo2010 Venugopal Govindaraju, University at Buffalo2010 Alexis Levitin, SUNY Plattsburgh2010 Steven Lynn, Binghamton University2010 Stanford Miller, The College at Brockport2010 John Parise, Stony Brook University2010 James Piorkowski, SUNY Fredonia2010 Ronald W. Toseland, University at Albany2011 Michael Berzonsky, SUNY Cortland2011 Guyora Binder, University at Buffalo2011 Tony Conrad, University at Buffalo2011 James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo2011 Michael Kimmel, Stony Brook University2011 Ronald N. Miles, Binghamton University2011 Cristanne Miller, University at Buffalo2011 John Monfasani, University at Albany2011 Timothy F. Murphy, University at Buffalo2011 Todd Sacktor, Downstate Medical Center2011 Richard Salvi, University at Buffalo2011 Bahgat G. Sammakia, Binghamton University2011 Sanjay Sampath, Stony Brook University2011 Christopher Turner, Upstate Medical University2011 Frank R. Vellutino, University at Albany2011 Shelemyahu Zacks, Binghamton University2012 Paresh Dandona, University at Buffalo2012 Kenneth Dill, Stony Brook University2012 Eugene Feinberg, Stony Brook University2012 Francis M. Gasparini, University at Buffalo2012 Maria Hepel, SUNY Potsdam2012 Leo N. Hopkins, University at Buffalo2012 David A. Kofke, University at Buffalo2012 Peter Rogerson, University at Buffalo2012 Edward Steinfeld, University at Buffalo2012 M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University2013 Rajan Batta, University at Buffalo2013 Stephen V. Faraone, Upstate Medical University2013 Jeremy D. Finn, University at Buffalo2013 Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., University at Buffalo2013 Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University2013 Paul R. Knight III, University at Buffalo2013 Daniel J. Kosman, University at Buffalo

2013 Eckhard Krotscheck, University at Buffalo2013 James M. Lattimer, Stony Brook University2013 Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Stony Brook University2013 John Tagg, Binghamton University2014 Jose-Manuel Alonso, SUNY College of Optometry2014 Vitaly Citovsky, Stony Brook University2014 Michael Constantinou, University at Buffalo2014 Georges Dicker, SUNY College at Brockport2014 Margarita L. Dubocovich, University at Buffalo2014 Jerold C. Frakes, University at Buffalo2014 Robert Harvey, Stony Brook University2014 Kenneth Kaushansky, Stony Brook University2014 M. Mahmood Hussain, Downstate Medical Center2014 Colin Loftin, University at Albany2014 Erwin London, Stony Brook University 2014 Phillip McCallion, University at Albany2014 Christopher A. McRoberts, SUNY College at Cortland2014 Eugene D. Morse, University at Buffalo2014 Karolyn Stonefelt, SUNY Fredonia2014 Aidong Zhang, University at Buffalo2015 Dennis Assanis, Stony Brook University2015 John M. Canty, Jr., University at Buffalo2015 Lawrence Dutton, Stony Brook University2015 Jessica Fridrich, University at Binghamton2015 Benjamin Hsiao, Stony Brook University2015 Istvan Kecskes, University at Albany2015 Chang Kee Jung, Stony Brook University2015 Daniel Klein, Stony Brook University2015 Robert K. Lazarsfeld, Stony Brook University2015 Steven R. Levine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center2015 Michael Leroy Oberg, SUNY Geneseo2015 Philip Setzer, Stony Brook University2015 Allen Tannenbaum, Stony Brook University2015 Henri Tiedge, SUNY Downstate Medical Center2015 Nancy J. Tomes, Stony Brook University2015 Jean Wactawski-Wende, University at Buffalo2015 Gary Waller, SUNY Purchase

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR1983 Robert Duckman, College of Optometry1989 Henry Teoh, Old Westbury1989 Claude E. Welch, University at Buffalo1990 Norman Goodman, Stony Brook University1991 James C. Dawson, SUNY Plattsburgh1991 Karen E. Markoe, Maritime College1991 Richard A. Young, SUNY Geneseo1992 Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany1993 Martin J. Salwen, Downstate Medical Center1993 Henry J. Steck, SUNY Cortland1994 Pascal Imperato, Downstate Medical Center

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1994 Ronald Sarner, SUNYIT1995 Betsy C. Balzano, The College at Brockport1995 John T. Ho, University at Buffalo1995 Paul E. Voninski, SUNY Oswego1996 Robert C. Liebermann, Stony Brook University1997 Ralph D. Nyland, SUNY ESF1997 Roger J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland1997 Joseph P. Winnick, The College at Brockport1998 Norman L. Weiner, SUNY Oswego1999 Peter D. G. Brown, SUNY New Paltz1999 Sachi G. Dastidar, Old Westbury1999 Joseph C. Makarewicz, The College at Brockport2000 David L. Ferguson, Stony Brook University2000 Gilbert N. Hanson, Stony Brook University2000 Francis McLaughlin, SUNY Potsdam2001 David F. Andersen, University at Albany2001 Sebastian G. Ciancio, University at Buffalo2001 Sung Bok Kim, University at Albany2001 Mario B. Mignone, Stony Brook University2001 William F. Stier, The College at Brockport2001 Hazem H. Tawfik, Farmingdale State College2001 Stuart F. Voss, SUNY Plattsburgh2002 Elizabeth J. Cappella, Buffalo State College2002 Willard N. Harman, College at Oneonta2002 Timothy Lance, University at Albany2002 Dorothy S. Lane, Stony Brook University2002 E. Thomas Moran, SUNY Plattsburgh2002 Glenna D. Spitze, University at Albany2002 William J. Williams, Upstate Medical University2003 Charles Patrick Ewing, University at Buffalo2003 Joseph A. Hildreth, SUNY Potsdam2003 David W. Krause, Stony Brook University2003 John Stephen Pipkin, University at Albany2003 Marvin Rotman, Downstate Medical Center2004 Said Amir Arjomand, Stony Brook University2004 Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Farmingdale State College2004 Malcolm James Bowman, Stony Brook University2004 Nancy J. Church, SUNY Plattsburgh2004 James E. Cottrell, Downstate Medical Center2004 David M. Engel, University at Buffalo2004 Maxwell Mark Mozell, Upstate Medical University2004 Shmuel Z. Yahalom, Maritime College2005 Leslie Kohman, Upstate Medical University2005 Sandra D. Michael, Binghamton University2005 John F. Quinan, University at Buffalo2005 Edward Tezak, Alfred State College2006 Iris M. Cook, Westchester Community College2006 Eva Brown Cramer, Downstate Medical Center2006 Richard Nisan Fine, Stony Brook University2006 Victor A. Skormin, Binghamton University2006 Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, College at Oneonta

2006 Daniel R. Strang, SUNY Geneseo2007 Serdar Elgun, Farmingdale State College2007 Douglas Garnar, Broome Community College2007 Vincent Iacono, Stony Brook University2007 Janet Nepkie, College at Oneonta2007 Robert Rees, Alfred State College2007 Alfred Stamm, SUNY Oswego2008 Laura Anker, Old Westbury2008 John Chaffee, Binghamton University2008 Joan Bender Cracco, Downstate Medical Center2008 Marie Gelato, Stony Brook University2008 David Hanson, Stony Brook University2008 S. Arthur Lundahl, Suffolk County Community College2008 Raymond Romanczyk, Binghamton University2008 Joseph Varacalli, Nassau Community College2009 Minna Barrett, Old Westbury2009 Henry Bokuniewicz, Stony Brook University2009 Carl Cohen, Downstate Medical Center2009 Mantosh Dewan, Upstate Medical University2009 John Lindsey, SUNY Potsdam2009 Elaine Padilla, Rockland Community College2009 H. Joseph Straight, SUNY Fredonia2009 Susan Strehle, Binghamton University2010 David Carson, Buffalo State College2010 Barbara Connolly, Westchester Community College2010 Alfred Frederick, SUNY Oswego2010 Arthur Kopelman, Fashion Institute of Technology2010 Edward Miller, SUNY Plattsburgh2010 Suzanne Mirra, Downstate Medical Center2010 H. Raghavendra Rao, University at Buffalo2010 Barbara Warkentine, Maritime College2011 Jack DeHovitz, Downstate Medical Center2011 John Frazier, Binghamton University2011 Bryan Higgins, SUNY Plattsburgh2011 Ted Schwalbe, SUNY Fredonia2011 Dennis Showers, SUNY Geneseo2011 S. N. Sridhar, Stony Brook University2011 Roy Steigbigel, Stony Brook University2012 Lynn Anderson, SUNY Cortland2012 Bill Baker, Rockland Community College2012 Hassaram Bakhru, University at Albany2012 Francis Battisti, Broome Community College2012 Jack Croxton, SUNY Fredonia2012 Steven R. Keeler, Cayuga Community College2012 Judith LaRosa, Downstate Medical Center2012 Lauren Lieberman, The College at Brockport 2012 Mary Beth Orrange, Erie Community College2012 Raymond Petersen, Jefferson Community College2012 Ruth Weinstock, Upstate Medical University2013 Kenneth B. Andrews, SUNY Potsdam2013 Audree A. Bendo, Downstate Medical Center

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2013 W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY Brockport2013 Lori Maida, Westchester Community College2013 Peter M. McGinnis, SUNY Cortland2013 Richard C. Smardon, SUNY ESF2014 R. David Bynum, Stony Brook University2014 Richard S. Hawks, SUNY ESF2014 Maire M. Keena Liberace, Rockland Community College2014 Patricia Chapple Wright, Stony Brook University2015 Sharon A. Brangman, Upstate Medical University2015 Barbara G. Delano, Downstate Medical Center2015 Karen Johnson-Weiner, SUNY Potsdam2015 Elizabeth Tucker, Binghamton University

DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR1974 Marilynn Smiley, SUNY Oswego1984 Judith Best, SUNY Cortland1985 Edward Thomas, University at Albany1986 Norman Goodman, Stony Brook University1988 Clyde Herreid, University at Buffalo1989 Murray Ettinger, University at Buffalo1989 Ronald Herzman, SUNY Geneseo1989 George Stefano, Old Westbury1989 Alan Tucker, Stony Brook University1990 Robert Daly, University at Buffalo1990 Robert Hoyte, SUNY Old Westbury1990 Jack Ingels, SUNY Cobleskill1991 Shirley Crawford, Morrisville State College1991 James Petercsak, SUNY Potsdam1991 Jerome Sherman, College of Optometry1992 Eli Friedman, Downstate Medical Center1992 Joyce Sirianni, University at Buffalo1992 Ann Tracy, SUNY Plattsburgh1993 Neil Ringler, SUNY ESF1994 Kah Kyung Cho, University at Buffalo1994 Kenneth Ciuffreda, College of Optometry1994 Mahendra Somasundaram, Downstate Medical Center1994 Gerald Sorin, SUNY New Paltz1996 Perry Hogan, University at Buffalo1996 Thomas Morrissey, SUNY Plattsburgh1996 Alan R. Shalita, Downstate Medical Center1997 Diane Christian, University at Buffalo1997 Aniko V. Constantine, Alfred State College1997 George T. Hole, Buffalo State College1997 Owen S. Ireland, The College at Brockport1997 Gary W. Towsley, SUNY Geneseo1998 Geraldine H. Forbes, SUNY Oswego1998 Dan A. Kushel, Buffalo State College1998 Donald J. Leopold, SUNY ESF

1998 John H. Relethford, College at Oneonta1998 Elinor J. Spring-Mills, Upstate Medical University1998 Anna Tan-Wilson, Binghamton University1999 Raymond A. Belliotti, SUNY Fredonia1999 Harold J. Metcalf, Stony Brook University1999 Graeme Newman, University at Albany1999 Jerry M. Newman, University at Buffalo1999 L. Thomas Wolff, Upstate Medical University2000 Michael A. Barnhart, Stony Brook University2000 John D. Buckwalter, Alfred State College2000 John W. Delano, University at Albany2000 Helmut V. B. Hirsch, University at Albany2000 Mary Lynch Kennedy, SUNY Cortland2000 Patrick Meanor, College at Oneonta2001 Patrick Grim, Stony Brook University2001 A. Tomasz Grunfeld, Empire State College2001 Joseph C. Hoffman, Maritime College2001 Ashok K. Malhotra, College at Oneonta2001 Robert A. Rosellini, University at Albany2001 Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY Fredonia2001 Jack T. Stern, Stony Brook University2002 Victoria L. Bolton, Alfred State College2002 Miriam K. Deitsch, Farmingdale State College2002 Lawrence T. Guzy, College at Oneonta2002 Jan L. Hagen, University at Albany2002 R. Lawrence Klotz, SUNY Cortland2002 David P. McCaffrey, University at Albany2002 Richard H. Robbins, SUNY Plattsburgh2003 Sherry J. Bass, College of Optometry2003 Fred S. Ferguson, Stony Brook University2003 Alexander G. Gonzalez, SUNY Cortland2003 Steven F. Messner, University at Albany2003 Stephen M. North, University at Albany2003 Ann R. Shapiro, Farmingdale State College2004 James R. Acker, University at Albany2004 Lynn M. Cleary, Upstate Medical University2004 Michelle A. Green, Alfred State College2004 Richard M. Mikkelson, Jr., SUNY Plattsburgh2004 Charles E. Mitchell, University at Buffalo2004 Robert W. O’Donnell, SUNY Geneseo2004 Robert E. Owens, SUNY Geneseo2004 James B. Ranck, Jr., Downstate Medical Center2004 H. R. Stoneback, SUNY New Paltz2005 Robert Alan Booth, SUNY Fredonia2005 David Franzi, SUNY Plattsburgh2005 Jacqueline Reihman, SUNY Oswego2005 Jacqueline Zlotnik Schmidt, SUNY New Paltz2005 H. Barry Waldman, Stony Brook University2005 Anderson B. Young, SUNY Cortland

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2006 Karen Bromley, Binghamton University2006 Lawrence E. Burns, Alfred State College2006 Stanley Friedman, Downstate Medical Center2006 Karen Morris, Monroe Community College2007 Seth Asumah, SUNY Cortland2007 Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany2007 Joseph Di Giovanna, SUNY Potsdam2007 Sue Faerman, University at Albany2007 James Grillo, Alfred State College2007 Thomas Hemmick, Stony Brook University2007 Vicki Janik, Farmingdale State College2007 Gerald Kadish, Binghamton University2007 Carl Lund, University at Buffalo2007 Stephen John Padalino, SUNY Geneseo2007 Gale Spencer, Binghamton University2008 Karla Alwes, SUNY Cortland2008 James Armstrong, SUNY Plattsburgh2008 Ellen Ginzler, Downstate Medical Center2008 William Jungers, Stony Brook University2008 Kenneth Takeuchi, Stony Brook University2008 Joseph Zambon, University at Buffalo2008 Clark Zlotchew, SUNY Fredonia2009 Mac Adams, SUNY Old Westbury2009 James Antonakos, Broome Community College2009 Caroline Downing, SUNY Potsdam2009 James Ebert, College at Oneonta2009 Roger Greenberg, Upstate Medical University2009 Andrea Guiati, Buffalo State College2009 Joseph Lauher, Stony Brook University2009 Stephen Lisman, Binghamton University2009 Olympia Nicodemi, SUNY Geneseo2009 Anthony Preus, Binghamton University2009 Sekharipuram Ravi, University at Albany2009 Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University2010 Antonio Alfonso, Downstate Medical Center2010 Richard Fienze, Broome Community College2010 David Geiger, SUNY Geneseo2010 Mary Jane Giarrusso-Wilkin, SUNY Delhi2010 Mark Karwan, University at Buffalo2010 Robin Kimmerer, SUNY ESF2010 Thomas Loughlin, SUNY Fredonia2010 Stephen Vitkun, Stony Brook University2011 Diane Fine, SUNY Plattsburgh2011 John Fiorillo, Farmingdale State College2011 Kurtis Fletcher, SUNY Geneseo2011 Lisa Ruth Merlin, Downstate Medical Center2011 James Pitarresi, Binghamton University2011 John Wadach, Monroe Community College2012 Joanna B. Chrzanowski, Jefferson Community College

2012 Elizabeth Gaffney, Westchester Community College2012 Martin Lecker, Rockland Community College2012 Beth McCoy, SUNY Geneseo2012 Julie Newell, SUNY Fredonia2012 Joseph Sprague, SUNY Cobleskill2012 George Vas, Downstate Medical Center2013 Jim D. Atwood, University at Buffalo2013 Robert S. Darling, SUNY Cortland2013 David McDowall, University at Albany2013 Wendy Knapp Pogozelski, SUNY Geneseo2013 Mary K. Roden-Tice, SUNY Plattsburgh2013 Binita R. Shah, Downstate Medical Center2014 Farhad Ameen, Westchester Community College2014 Russell D. Briggs, SUNY ESF2014 Zu-yan Chen, Binghamton University2014 Rita Colon-Urban, SUNY Old Westbury2014 Ganie DeHart, SUNY Geneseo2014 Stephen P. Kershnar, SUNY Fredonia2014 Tracy Karl Lewis, SUNY College at Oswego2014 Johannes M. Nitsche, University at Buffalo2014 Stephen V. Stehman, SUNY ESF2015 Richard A. Courage, Westchester Community College2015 Mark L. Fowler, Binghamton University2015 Carleen Graham, SUNY Potsdam2015 Nancy Hollingsworth, Stony Brook University2015 Ronald M. Labuz, Mohawk Valley Community College2015 Robert R. Rogers, SUNY Fredonia2015 Keith Williams, Downstate Medical Center

DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY MEDALLION OF HONORARY DISTINCTION2012 William Kennedy2013 Richard Gambino – deceased2014 Ralph M. Garruto2015 JoAnn Falletta2016 Eugene Drucker2016 David Finckel2016 Paul Watkins

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