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Distinguished Academy
The State University of New York
Distinguished Academy
Induction of the 2015
Distinguished Faculty
May 31, 2016, Desmond Hotel, Albany, New York
5 th 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 broadranging 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. Zimpher
Chancellor
The State University of New York
Distinguished Academy
Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, Albany, New York
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Dr. Jason E. Lane, Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Strategic Leadership
and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor
WELCOME
Dr. Peter Knuepfer, President, University Faculty Senate
Dr. Nina Tamrowski, President, Faculty Council of Community Colleges
INTRODUCTION OF DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY HONORARY INDUCTEES
Followed 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 QUARTET
Mr. 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 Oswego
Mr. Joseph A. Hildreth, SUNY Potsdam
Ms. Trudi E. Jacobson, University at Albany
Dr. W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY Brockport
Dr. Binita R. Shah, Downstate Medical Center
Dr. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University
CHANCELLOR’S REMARKS
Dr. Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor
PROVOST’S REMARKS
Dr. Alexander N. Cartwright, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
CONFERRAL OF MEDALLION OF DISTINCTION
The Emerson String Quartet
Mr. Eugene Drucker, *Mr. Lawrence Dutton, Mr. David Finckel, *Mr. Philip Setzer, and Mr. Paul Watkins
INDUCTION OF THE 2015 DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
Rank of Distinguished Professor
Rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor
Rank of Distinguished Service Professor
Musical accompaniment for tonight’s program features SUNY Musicians
James McElwaine, Professor Emeritus of Music, Purchase College, Saxophone and Clarinet
Andrew Grau, SUNY Oneonta, Bass
VJ 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.
The State University of New York
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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 to
excellence, kindle intellectual vibrancy, elevate the standards of instruction, and
enrich contributions to public service. They demonstrate the State University’s
pride and gratitude for the consummate professionalism, groundbreaking
scholarship, exceptional instruction, and breadth and significance of service
contributions of its faculty.
Appointment constitutes a promotion to the State University’s highest
academic rank, and it is conferred solely by The State University of New York
Board 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
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 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 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 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
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EUGENE
DRUCKER
Violinist 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 WATKINS
Paul 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
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DAVID FINCKEL
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.
Cellist 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
As cellist of the Emerson String Quartet for thirtyfour 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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LAWRENCE DUTTON
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PHILIP SETZER
Lawrence 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 LimDutton and their three sons Luke, Jesse and Samuel.
Mr. Dutton exclusively uses Thomastik Spirocore strings.
Viola: Samuel Zygmuntowicz (Brooklyn, NY 2003)
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Violinist 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 Lawrence Dutton
Professor Dennis Assanis
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 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, 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 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. 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.
Dr. 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 engines 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 honors. Dr. Assanis has mentored more than 50 Ph.D. students 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 American 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 misclassified and misunderstood. Through his development of a
unique animal model and inventive and elegant experiments, 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 within 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.
Professor Jessica Fridrich
Dr. Fridrich is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University at Binghamton. 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 authority in the field of steganography. In 2009, in addition
to her many research papers, she published “Steganography in Digital Media: Principles, Algorithms, and
Application,” (Cambridge University Press) which has
rapidly become the seminal graduate textbook in steganography. 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 Hsiao
An outstanding scholar, Dr. Hsiao, Professor of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, has a distinguished national and international research reputation in polymer
science. Dr. Hsiao has published over 442 scientific
papers, 42 reviews and chapters in books and encyclopedias, 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 research, (2) advancement of fundamental understanding
of polymer crystallization, and (3) applications of nanofiber 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 Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2013, Fellow of the Materials
Research Society (MRS) in 2015, received the Chang-Jiang 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 Kecskes
Dr. 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 nascent discipline of Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Research. 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 Association. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Research
Award from the University at Albany, and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative
Activities.
Professor Chang Kee Jung
An exceptional and leading scientist, Dr. Jung, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, 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 communication and organizational skills. His work at the SuperKamiokande, 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 postdoctoral training, in undergraduate research experience
and in classroom teaching.
Professor Daniel Klein
A 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 classification 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 pharmacotherapy 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 depression 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.
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 Robert K. Lazarsfeld
Professor Michael Leroy Oberg
Dr. Lazarsfeld is a Professor of Mathematics at Stony
Brook University. He is one of the great algebraic geometers of our time, having made numerous deep and
influential contributions to many themes of this classical
field, central for mathematics. These themes can be unified 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 Professorship 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 mentor 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. Levine
Dr. 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. Continuously NIH funded for three decades (over $13.7M direct
funding), since joining SUNY in 2010, he initiated several SUNY-wide clinical trial networks. He has published
over 170 original peer-reviewed papers (several with
over 200 citations) and made new, significant, distinguished advances in stroke treatment and epidemiology.
Dr. 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 wellknown “Lost Colony” of Roanoke from the perspective
of the Algonquian people who determined the fate of
the colonists sent there by Sir Walter Raleigh. Similarly, 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 indepth 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 Setzer
An exceptionally gifted violinist, Mr. Setzer, Professor
of Music at Stony Brook University, has studied with
Josef Gingold (1956-1958) and Rafael Druian (19581969); 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-
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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 Concerto. 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 Quartets 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 Grammophon and SONY.
Professor Allen Tannenbaum
Dr. Tannenbaum, Professor of Computer Science at
Stony Brook University, is an outstanding educator in
the areas of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. 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 knowledge-based image segmentation, conformal flattening
colonoscopy, and optimal mass transport for brain
registration and warping.
Professor Henri Tiedge
Dr. Tiedge is a Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology and Professor of Neurology at SUNY Downstate
Medical Center. He is a world-renowned neuroscientist 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 neurological disease. These advances have earned Dr. Tiedge
widespread acclaim and recognition. His national and international 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 international 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. Tomes
Dr. Tomes is a Professor of History who has been teaching 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 monographs, four edited volumes, 18 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 peer-reviewed book chapters, and seven major
review essays, and has produced numerous public oriented publications and online information sites. Dr. Tomes’
monumental 1998 book The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, 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 academic 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, Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern 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 fellowships, 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.
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 national 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 Jean Wactawski-Wende
A renowned epidemiologist and a global leader in women’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 leadership 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 Waller
Dr. 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 scholarship 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-
Professor Sharon A. Brangman
Dr. Brangman is a Professor of Medicine and Division
Chief of Geriatric Medicine at Upstate Medical University. 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 Community 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 Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s project
“Building Health Systems for People with Chronic
Illnesses.” She was President of the American Geriatrics 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 Upstate 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. Delano
Dr. Delano is Chair and Professor in the Department of
Community Health Services at Downstate Medical Center. 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
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focused much effort on the prevention and control of
end-stage renal disease, especially among underserved
populations. A national leader in promoting home dialysis, 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 contributed 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-accreditation 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 Teacher Award in Preventive Medicine, both from the Alumni
Association, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Professor Karen Johnson-Weiner
Dr. Johnson-Weiner is a Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. She has national and
international prominence as an author and consultant
in Amish and Mennonite Studies. Dr. Johnson-Weiner’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 documentary, 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,
Dr. Johnson-Weiner was awarded a Snowden Fellowship 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 Tucker
Dr. 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. Courage
Dr. 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-American intellectuals of Chicago, from 1932 to 1950. His
second book, “Root, Branch, and Blossom: Social Origins 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. Fowler
Dr. 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 helping students. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Award
for Excellence in Teaching and twice awarded the Electrical 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 materials 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 educational outcomes.
Professor Carleen Graham
Dr. 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, inclusion 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 America 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 Conservatory 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 nurturing 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 Hollingsworth
Dr. 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 Interactive 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 excellence 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. Labuz
Dr. Labuz is a Professor of Graphic Design at Mohawk
Valley Community College (MVCC). His career spans
over three decades of inspired teaching that engages students in creative, experiential, project-based
learning. A Full Professor since 1991, Professor Labuz
expertly teaches a myriad of courses, and compassionately mentors former and current students within the
Graphic Arts program, in which he serves as Coordinator. 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 college-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. Labuz has published 15 books including Faces of the Mohawk 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. Rogers
Dr. Rogers is a Professor of Mathematics at SUNY Fredonia. 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 mathematics 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 Mathematics 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 (Professional Resources in Mathematics Education). Finally,
his professional development, as judged by scholarly
activity, has been significant: he has co-authored a textbook 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 Williams
Dr. Williams is a Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at Downstate Medical Center. He is an internationally 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, leadership, 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.
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Dr. Amit Bandyopadhyay
Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Architecture and
Construction Management
Farmingdale State College
Dr. Constantia Constantinou
Distinguished Librarian
University Libraries
Stony Brook University
Dr. Wendy Knapp Pogozelski
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Chemistry
SUNY College at Geneseo
Dr. Norman Goodman
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Sociology
Stony Brook University
Ms. Trudi E. Jacobson
Distinguished Librarian
University Libraries
University at Albany
Mr. Steve Keeler
Distinguished Service Professor
School of Media and the Arts
Cayuga Community College
Dr. Janet Nepkie
Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Music
SUNY College at Oneonta
Dr. Henry J. Steck
Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Political Science
SUNY College at Cortland
Dr. John Tagg
Distinguished Professor
Department of Art History
Binghamton University
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Jorge J. E. Gracia, University at Buffalo
Iwao Ojima, Stony Brook University
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Solomon W. Polachek, Binghamton University
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Paras N. Prasad, University at Buffalo
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Alfred Stracher, Downstate Medical Center
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Michael A. Little, Binghamton University
Linda Patia Spear, Binghamton University
Dennis P. Sullivan, Stony Brook University
Donald James Weidner, Stony Brook University
Armen Zemanian, Stony Brook University
Terrence Fitzgerald, SUNY Cortland
Daniel C. Levy, University at Albany
William J. Lennarz, Stony Brook University
Richard M. Weist, SUNY Fredonia
Douglas J. Futuyma, Stony Brook University
Gilbert Kalish, Stony Brook University
Israel Kleinberg, Stony Brook University
Bruce Douglas McCombe, University at Buffalo
Charles A. Micchelli, University at Albany
Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, Stony Brook University
Gerald Benjamin, SUNY New Paltz
Eric Block, University at Albany
Konstantin K. Likharev, Stony Brook University
Dennis Tedlock, University at Buffalo
Eckard A. F. Wimmer, Stony Brook University
Marlene Belfort, University at Albany
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Serge Luryi, Stony Brook University
Barry M. McCoy, Stony Brook University
Ralph R. Miller, Binghamton University
Edward V. Shuryak, Stony Brook University
Rolf Sternglanz, Stony Brook University
Francis J. Yammarino, Binghamton University
Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany
Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany
Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University
Mark N. Cohen, SUNY Plattsburgh
John G. Fleagle, Stony Brook University
Marvin R. Goldfried, Stony Brook University
Arie E. Kaufman, Stony Brook University
Jeffrey Levinton, Stony Brook University
Myron J. Mitchell, SUNY ESF
Jeffrey Segal, Stony Brook University
Barry Smith, University at Buffalo
Krishnaswami Srihari, Binghamton University
George F. Sterman, Stony Brook University
Nicholas N. Fisher, Stony Brook University
Elizabeth Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University
Subal C. Kumbhakar, Binghamton University
Kajal Lahiri, University at Albany
Clinton T. Rubin, Stony Brook University
Robert K. S. Wong, Downstate Medical Center
Isaac Ehrlich, University at Buffalo
William H. Isbell, Binghamton University
Herman Lebovics, Stony Brook University
Stuart G. A. McLaughlin, Stony Brook University
Gene D. Sprouse, Stony Brook University
Lois M. Weist, University at Buffalo
David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University
Timothy Baroni, SUNY Cortland
Gregory Belenky, Stony Brook University
Richard Cross, Upstate Medical University
Rodolphe Gasche, University at Buffalo
Mark Lenzenweger, Binghamton University
David Mark, University at Buffalo
Makau Mutua, University at Buffalo
Thomas O’Connor, Binghamton University
Miriam Rafailovich, Stony Brook University
Alberto Rey, SUNY Fredonia
Stephen David Ross, Binghamton University
Frederick Sachs, University at Buffalo
Qasim Zaidi, College of Optometry
Jorge Benach, Stony Brook University
Frank Bright, University at Buffalo
Douglas Clements, University at Buffalo
David Felder, University at Buffalo
William Jusko, University at Buffalo
Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo
Mulchand Patel, University at Buffalo
Roger Rosenblatt, Stony Brook University
The State University of New York
Distinguished Academy
ACTIVE MEMBERS
2008
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2010
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Stephen Rudin, University at Buffalo
Evelyn Bromet, Stony Brook University
Ann Colley, Buffalo State College
Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University
Thomas Dublin, Binghamton University
Daniel Dykhuizen, Stony Brook University
Lawrence Fialkow, SUNY New Paltz
Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University
Keqin Li, SUNY New Paltz
Randall McGuire, Binghamton University
Esther Takeuchi, Stony Brook University
Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University
Leonard Epstein, University at Buffalo
Venugopal Govindaraju, University at Buffalo
Alexis Levitin, SUNY Plattsburgh
Steven Lynn, Binghamton University
Stanford Miller, The College at Brockport
John Parise, Stony Brook University
James Piorkowski, SUNY Fredonia
Ronald W. Toseland, University at Albany
Michael Berzonsky, SUNY Cortland
Guyora Binder, University at Buffalo
Tony Conrad, University at Buffalo
James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo
Michael Kimmel, Stony Brook University
Ronald N. Miles, Binghamton University
Cristanne Miller, University at Buffalo
John Monfasani, University at Albany
Timothy F. Murphy, University at Buffalo
Todd Sacktor, Downstate Medical Center
Richard Salvi, University at Buffalo
Bahgat G. Sammakia, Binghamton University
Sanjay Sampath, Stony Brook University
Christopher Turner, Upstate Medical University
Frank R. Vellutino, University at Albany
Shelemyahu Zacks, Binghamton University
Paresh Dandona, University at Buffalo
Kenneth Dill, Stony Brook University
Eugene Feinberg, Stony Brook University
Francis M. Gasparini, University at Buffalo
Maria Hepel, SUNY Potsdam
Leo N. Hopkins, University at Buffalo
David A. Kofke, University at Buffalo
Peter Rogerson, University at Buffalo
Edward Steinfeld, University at Buffalo
M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University
Rajan Batta, University at Buffalo
Stephen V. Faraone, Upstate Medical University
Jeremy D. Finn, University at Buffalo
Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., University at Buffalo
Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University
Paul R. Knight III, University at Buffalo
Daniel J. Kosman, University at Buffalo
2013
Eckhard Krotscheck, University at Buffalo
2013
James M. Lattimer, Stony Brook University
2013
Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Stony Brook University
2013
John Tagg, Binghamton University
2014
Jose-Manuel Alonso, SUNY College of Optometry
2014
Vitaly Citovsky, Stony Brook University
2014
Michael Constantinou, University at Buffalo
2014
Georges Dicker, SUNY College at Brockport
2014
Margarita L. Dubocovich, University at Buffalo
2014
Jerold C. Frakes, University at Buffalo
2014
Robert Harvey, Stony Brook University
2014
Kenneth Kaushansky, Stony Brook University
2014
M. Mahmood Hussain, Downstate Medical Center
2014
Colin Loftin, University at Albany
2014
Erwin London, Stony Brook University
2014
Phillip McCallion, University at Albany
2014
Christopher A. McRoberts, SUNY College at
Cortland
2014 Eugene D. Morse, University at Buffalo
2014
Karolyn Stonefelt, SUNY Fredonia
2014
Aidong Zhang, University at Buffalo
2015
Dennis Assanis, Stony Brook University
2015
John M. Canty, Jr., University at Buffalo
2015
Lawrence Dutton, Stony Brook University
2015
Jessica Fridrich, University at Binghamton
2015
Benjamin Hsiao, Stony Brook University
2015
Istvan Kecskes, University at Albany
2015
Chang Kee Jung, Stony Brook University
2015
Daniel Klein, Stony Brook University
2015
Robert K. Lazarsfeld, Stony Brook University
2015
Steven R. Levine, SUNY Downstate Medical
Center
2015
Michael Leroy Oberg, SUNY Geneseo
2015
Philip Setzer, Stony Brook University
2015
Allen Tannenbaum, Stony Brook University
2015
Henri Tiedge, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
2015
Nancy J. Tomes, Stony Brook University
2015
Jean Wactawski-Wende, University at Buffalo
2015
Gary Waller, SUNY Purchase
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR
1983
1989
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1990
1991
1991
1991
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1993
1993
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Robert Duckman, College of Optometry
Henry Teoh, Old Westbury
Claude E. Welch, University at Buffalo
Norman Goodman, Stony Brook University
James C. Dawson, SUNY Plattsburgh
Karen E. Markoe, Maritime College
Richard A. Young, SUNY Geneseo
Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany
Martin J. Salwen, Downstate Medical Center
Henry J. Steck, SUNY Cortland
Pascal Imperato, Downstate Medical Center
The State University of New York
Distinguished Academy
ACTIVE MEMBERS
1994
Ronald Sarner, SUNYIT
1995
Betsy C. Balzano, The College at Brockport
1995
John T. Ho, University at Buffalo
1995
Paul E. Voninski, SUNY Oswego
1996
Robert C. Liebermann, Stony Brook University
1997
Ralph D. Nyland, SUNY ESF
1997
Roger J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland
1997
Joseph P. Winnick, The College at Brockport
1998
Norman L. Weiner, SUNY Oswego
1999
Peter D. G. Brown, SUNY New Paltz
1999
Sachi G. Dastidar, Old Westbury
1999
Joseph C. Makarewicz, The College at Brockport
2000 David L. Ferguson, Stony Brook University
2000 Gilbert N. Hanson, Stony Brook University
2000 Francis McLaughlin, SUNY Potsdam
2001
David F. Andersen, University at Albany
2001
Sebastian G. Ciancio, University at Buffalo
2001
Sung Bok Kim, University at Albany
2001
Mario B. Mignone, Stony Brook University
2001
William F. Stier, The College at Brockport
2001
Hazem H. Tawfik, Farmingdale State College
2001
Stuart F. Voss, SUNY Plattsburgh
2002 Elizabeth J. Cappella, Buffalo State College
2002 Willard N. Harman, College at Oneonta
2002 Timothy Lance, University at Albany
2002 Dorothy S. Lane, Stony Brook University
2002 E. Thomas Moran, SUNY Plattsburgh
2002 Glenna D. Spitze, University at Albany
2002 William J. Williams, Upstate Medical University
2003 Charles Patrick Ewing, University at Buffalo
2003 Joseph A. Hildreth, SUNY Potsdam
2003 David W. Krause, Stony Brook University
2003 John Stephen Pipkin, University at Albany
2003 Marvin Rotman, Downstate Medical Center
2004 Said Amir Arjomand, Stony Brook University
2004 Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Farmingdale State
College
2004 Malcolm James Bowman, Stony Brook University
2004 Nancy J. Church, SUNY Plattsburgh
2004 James E. Cottrell, Downstate Medical Center
2004 David M. Engel, University at Buffalo
2004 Maxwell Mark Mozell, Upstate Medical University
2004 Shmuel Z. Yahalom, Maritime College
2005 Leslie Kohman, Upstate Medical University
2005 Sandra D. Michael, Binghamton University
2005 John F. Quinan, University at Buffalo
2005 Edward Tezak, Alfred State College
2006 Iris M. Cook, Westchester Community College
2006 Eva Brown Cramer, Downstate Medical Center
2006 Richard Nisan Fine, Stony Brook University
2006 Victor A. Skormin, Binghamton University
2006 Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, College at Oneonta
2006 Daniel R. Strang, SUNY Geneseo
2007 Serdar Elgun, Farmingdale State College
2007 Douglas Garnar, Broome Community College
2007 Vincent Iacono, Stony Brook University
2007 Janet Nepkie, College at Oneonta
2007 Robert Rees, Alfred State College
2007 Alfred Stamm, SUNY Oswego
2008 Laura Anker, Old Westbury
2008 John Chaffee, Binghamton University
2008 Joan Bender Cracco, Downstate Medical Center
2008 Marie Gelato, Stony Brook University
2008 David Hanson, Stony Brook University
2008 S. Arthur Lundahl, Suffolk County Community
College
2008 Raymond Romanczyk, Binghamton University
2008 Joseph Varacalli, Nassau Community College
2009 Minna Barrett, Old Westbury
2009 Henry Bokuniewicz, Stony Brook University
2009 Carl Cohen, Downstate Medical Center
2009 Mantosh Dewan, Upstate Medical University
2009 John Lindsey, SUNY Potsdam
2009 Elaine Padilla, Rockland Community College
2009 H. Joseph Straight, SUNY Fredonia
2009 Susan Strehle, Binghamton University
2010
David Carson, Buffalo State College
2010
Barbara Connolly, Westchester Community College
2010
Alfred Frederick, SUNY Oswego
2010
Arthur Kopelman, Fashion Institute of Technology
2010
Edward Miller, SUNY Plattsburgh
2010
Suzanne Mirra, Downstate Medical Center
2010
H. Raghavendra Rao, University at Buffalo
2010
Barbara Warkentine, Maritime College
2011
Jack DeHovitz, Downstate Medical Center
2011
John Frazier, Binghamton University
2011
Bryan Higgins, SUNY Plattsburgh
2011
Ted Schwalbe, SUNY Fredonia
2011
Dennis Showers, SUNY Geneseo
2011
S. N. Sridhar, Stony Brook University
2011
Roy Steigbigel, Stony Brook University
2012
Lynn Anderson, SUNY Cortland
2012
Bill Baker, Rockland Community College
2012
Hassaram Bakhru, University at Albany
2012
Francis Battisti, Broome Community College
2012
Jack Croxton, SUNY Fredonia
2012
Steven R. Keeler, Cayuga Community College
2012
Judith LaRosa, Downstate Medical Center
2012
Lauren Lieberman, The College at Brockport
2012
Mary Beth Orrange, Erie Community College
2012
Raymond Petersen, Jefferson Community College
2012
Ruth Weinstock, Upstate Medical University
2013
Kenneth B. Andrews, SUNY Potsdam
2013
Audree A. Bendo, Downstate Medical Center
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Distinguished Academy
ACTIVE MEMBERS
2013
2013
2013
2013
2014
2014
2014
2014
2015
2015
2015
2015
W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY Brockport
Lori Maida, Westchester Community College
Peter M. McGinnis, SUNY Cortland
Richard C. Smardon, SUNY ESF
R. David Bynum, Stony Brook University
Richard S. Hawks, SUNY ESF
Maire M. Keena Liberace, Rockland
Community College
Patricia Chapple Wright, Stony Brook University
Sharon A. Brangman, Upstate Medical University
Barbara G. Delano, Downstate Medical Center
Karen Johnson-Weiner, SUNY Potsdam
Elizabeth Tucker, Binghamton University
DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR
1974
Marilynn Smiley, SUNY Oswego
1984 Judith Best, SUNY Cortland
1985 Edward Thomas, University at Albany
1986 Norman Goodman, Stony Brook University
1988 Clyde Herreid, University at Buffalo
1989 Murray Ettinger, University at Buffalo
1989 Ronald Herzman, SUNY Geneseo
1989 George Stefano, Old Westbury
1989 Alan Tucker, Stony Brook University
1990 Robert Daly, University at Buffalo
1990 Robert Hoyte, SUNY Old Westbury
1990 Jack Ingels, SUNY Cobleskill
1991
Shirley Crawford, Morrisville State College
1991
James Petercsak, SUNY Potsdam
1991
Jerome Sherman, College of Optometry
1992 Eli Friedman, Downstate Medical Center
1992 Joyce Sirianni, University at Buffalo
1992 Ann Tracy, SUNY Plattsburgh
1993 Neil Ringler, SUNY ESF
1994 Kah Kyung Cho, University at Buffalo
1994 Kenneth Ciuffreda, College of Optometry
1994 Mahendra Somasundaram, Downstate Medical
Center
1994 Gerald Sorin, SUNY New Paltz
1996 Perry Hogan, University at Buffalo
1996 Thomas Morrissey, SUNY Plattsburgh
1996 Alan R. Shalita, Downstate Medical Center
1997 Diane Christian, University at Buffalo
1997 Aniko V. Constantine, Alfred State College
1997 George T. Hole, Buffalo State College
1997 Owen S. Ireland, The College at Brockport
1997 Gary W. Towsley, SUNY Geneseo
1998 Geraldine H. Forbes, SUNY Oswego
1998 Dan A. Kushel, Buffalo State College
1998 Donald J. Leopold, SUNY ESF
1998 John H. Relethford, College at Oneonta
1998 Elinor J. Spring-Mills, Upstate Medical
University
1998 Anna Tan-Wilson, Binghamton University
1999 Raymond A. Belliotti, SUNY Fredonia
1999 Harold J. Metcalf, Stony Brook University
1999 Graeme Newman, University at Albany
1999 Jerry M. Newman, University at Buffalo
1999 L. Thomas Wolff, Upstate Medical University
2000 Michael A. Barnhart, Stony Brook University
2000 John D. Buckwalter, Alfred State College
2000 John W. Delano, University at Albany
2000 Helmut V. B. Hirsch, University at Albany
2000 Mary Lynch Kennedy, SUNY Cortland
2000 Patrick Meanor, College at Oneonta
2001 Patrick Grim, Stony Brook University
2001 A. Tomasz Grunfeld, Empire State College
2001 Joseph C. Hoffman, Maritime College
2001 Ashok K. Malhotra, College at Oneonta
2001 Robert A. Rosellini, University at Albany
2001 Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY Fredonia
2001 Jack T. Stern, Stony Brook University
2002 Victoria L. Bolton, Alfred State College
2002 Miriam K. Deitsch, Farmingdale State College
2002 Lawrence T. Guzy, College at Oneonta
2002 Jan L. Hagen, University at Albany
2002 R. Lawrence Klotz, SUNY Cortland
2002 David P. McCaffrey, University at Albany
2002 Richard H. Robbins, SUNY Plattsburgh
2003 Sherry J. Bass, College of Optometry
2003 Fred S. Ferguson, Stony Brook University
2003 Alexander G. Gonzalez, SUNY Cortland
2003 Steven F. Messner, University at Albany
2003 Stephen M. North, University at Albany
2003 Ann R. Shapiro, Farmingdale State College
2004 James R. Acker, University at Albany
2004 Lynn M. Cleary, Upstate Medical University
2004 Michelle A. Green, Alfred State College
2004 Richard M. Mikkelson, Jr., SUNY Plattsburgh
2004 Charles E. Mitchell, University at Buffalo
2004 Robert W. O’Donnell, SUNY Geneseo
2004 Robert E. Owens, SUNY Geneseo
2004 James B. Ranck, Jr., Downstate Medical Center
2004 H. R. Stoneback, SUNY New Paltz
2005 Robert Alan Booth, SUNY Fredonia
2005 David Franzi, SUNY Plattsburgh
2005 Jacqueline Reihman, SUNY Oswego
2005 Jacqueline Zlotnik Schmidt, SUNY New Paltz
2005 H. Barry Waldman, Stony Brook University
2005 Anderson B. Young, SUNY Cortland
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Distinguished Academy
ACTIVE MEMBERS
2006 Karen Bromley, Binghamton University
2006 Lawrence E. Burns, Alfred State College
2006 Stanley Friedman, Downstate Medical Center
2006 Karen Morris, Monroe Community College
2007 Seth Asumah, SUNY Cortland
2007 Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany
2007 Joseph Di Giovanna, SUNY Potsdam
2007 Sue Faerman, University at Albany
2007 James Grillo, Alfred State College
2007 Thomas Hemmick, Stony Brook University
2007 Vicki Janik, Farmingdale State College
2007 Gerald Kadish, Binghamton University
2007 Carl Lund, University at Buffalo
2007 Stephen John Padalino, SUNY Geneseo
2007 Gale Spencer, Binghamton University
2008 Karla Alwes, SUNY Cortland
2008 James Armstrong, SUNY Plattsburgh
2008 Ellen Ginzler, Downstate Medical Center
2008 William Jungers, Stony Brook University
2008 Kenneth Takeuchi, Stony Brook University
2008 Joseph Zambon, University at Buffalo
2008 Clark Zlotchew, SUNY Fredonia
2009 Mac Adams, SUNY Old Westbury
2009 James Antonakos, Broome Community College
2009 Caroline Downing, SUNY Potsdam
2009 James Ebert, College at Oneonta
2009 Roger Greenberg, Upstate Medical University
2009 Andrea Guiati, Buffalo State College
2009 Joseph Lauher, Stony Brook University
2009 Stephen Lisman, Binghamton University
2009 Olympia Nicodemi, SUNY Geneseo
2009 Anthony Preus, Binghamton University
2009 Sekharipuram Ravi, University at Albany
2009 Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University
2010 Antonio Alfonso, Downstate Medical Center
2010 Richard Fienze, Broome Community College
2010 David Geiger, SUNY Geneseo
2010 Mary Jane Giarrusso-Wilkin, SUNY Delhi
2010 Mark Karwan, University at Buffalo
2010 Robin Kimmerer, SUNY ESF
2010 Thomas Loughlin, SUNY Fredonia
2010 Stephen Vitkun, Stony Brook University
2011
Diane Fine, SUNY Plattsburgh
2011
John Fiorillo, Farmingdale State College
2011
Kurtis Fletcher, SUNY Geneseo
2011
Lisa Ruth Merlin, Downstate Medical Center
2011
James Pitarresi, Binghamton University
2011
John Wadach, Monroe Community College
2012 Joanna B. Chrzanowski, Jefferson Community
College
2012 Elizabeth Gaffney, Westchester Community
College
2012 Martin Lecker, Rockland Community College
2012 Beth McCoy, SUNY Geneseo
2012 Julie Newell, SUNY Fredonia
2012 Joseph Sprague, SUNY Cobleskill
2012 George Vas, Downstate Medical Center
2013 Jim D. Atwood, University at Buffalo
2013 Robert S. Darling, SUNY Cortland
2013 David McDowall, University at Albany
2013 Wendy Knapp Pogozelski, SUNY Geneseo
2013 Mary K. Roden-Tice, SUNY Plattsburgh
2013 Binita R. Shah, Downstate Medical Center
2014 Farhad Ameen, Westchester Community
College
2014 Russell D. Briggs, SUNY ESF
2014 Zu-yan Chen, Binghamton University
2014 Rita Colon-Urban, SUNY Old Westbury
2014 Ganie DeHart, SUNY Geneseo
2014 Stephen P. Kershnar, SUNY Fredonia
2014 Tracy Karl Lewis, SUNY College at Oswego
2014 Johannes M. Nitsche, University at Buffalo
2014 Stephen V. Stehman, SUNY ESF
2015 Richard A. Courage, Westchester Community
College
2015 Mark L. Fowler, Binghamton University
2015 Carleen Graham, SUNY Potsdam
2015 Nancy Hollingsworth, Stony Brook University
2015 Ronald M. Labuz, Mohawk Valley Community
College
2015 Robert R. Rogers, SUNY Fredonia
2015 Keith Williams, Downstate Medical Center
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMY MEDALLION
OF HONORARY DISTINCTION
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2016
2016
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William Kennedy
Richard Gambino – deceased
Ralph M. Garruto
JoAnn Falletta
Eugene Drucker
David Finckel
Paul Watkins
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Distinguished Academy