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Past Honorees - Faculty/Staff
Award Pages
SUNY Distinguished Ranks.........................................................1-9
SUNY Chancellor’s Awards…………………………………………9-33
UB President’s Medal………………………………………………..33-35
UB Distinguished Professors.......................................................35-38
UB Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award….............38-39
UB Exceptional Scholars…………...............................................39-48
UB President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring…….48-49
UB Teaching Innovation Award…………………………………….49-51
SUNY Distinguished Ranks In recognition of exceptional faculty merit, the State University of New York Board of
Trustees designates leading State University faculty members as Distinguished
Professors. This rank is accorded to faculty who have distinguished their campus and
State University communities through outstanding academic contributions, including
scholarly publications, national and international research presentations, research
findings, and the training of students. The trustees grant Distinguished Teaching
Professorships to faculty members whose pedagogical accomplishments are
extraordinary. They award Distinguished Service Professorships to those whose
outstanding academic careers have included a particular focus on serving the university
and its larger constituencies.
SUNY Distinguished Professors
Giuseppe Andres 8-19-91
Rajan Batta 11-15-13
Charles Bernstein 9-24-02
Guyora Binder 05-10-11
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Gregory Breit 1968
Harvey Breverman 03-23-99
Frank V. Bright 11-18-08
B. Richard Bugelski 1969
John M. Canty, Jr. 5-6-15
Douglas H. Clements 03-11-08
Tony S. Conrad 05-10-11
Michael C. Constantinou 11-6-14
Joan K. Copjec 3-24-09
Philip Coppens 04-29-92
Robert Creeley 4-24-89
Anne B. Curtis 05-04-16
Paresh Dandona 5-10-12
Jonathan S. Dewald 5-3-17
Colin G. Drury 03-20-07
Margarita L. Dubocovich 5-7-14
Stephen L. Dyson 05-04-16
John Eccles 9-1-68
Isaac Ehrlich 03-13-06
Leonard H. Epstein 05-11-10
Marvin Farber 1964
Leon Farhi 2-22-89
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Raymond Federman 3-29-90
David C. Felder 11-18-08
Irving Feldman 10-12-89
Leslie A. Fiedler 3-5-87
Francis Fincham 9-24-02
Jeremy D. Finn 11-15-13
Jerold C. Frakes 5-7-14
Joseph A. Gardella Jr. 11-15-13
James A Gardner 05-10-11
Rodolphe Gasche 11-27-07
Francis M. Gasparini 12-05-12
Robert J. Genco 09-28-89
Rene Girard 1971
Venugopal Govindaraju 11-17-10
Jorge J. E. Gracia 04-25-95
Bruce A. Holm 11-18-08
Suk-ki Hong 12-21-94
L. Nelson Hopkins III 12-05-12
George Hourani 1982
Susan Howe 09-24-02
Georg G. Iggers 11-28-78
Bruce H. Jackson 02-01-90
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Oliver Jones 1966
William J. Jusko 11-18-08
Paul R. Knight III 05-07-13
David A. Kofke 12-05-12
Daniel J. Kosman 05-07-13
Eckhard Krotscheck 11-15-13
George C. Lee 03-20-07
Gerhard Levy 1972
Philip LoVerde 03-16-04
Claes E.G. Lundgren 11-27-07
David M. Mark 03-20-07
Bruce D. McCombe 09-25-01
Felix Milgrom 04-22-81
Cristanne C. Miller 05-10-11
Vladimir Mitin 03-11-08
Marilyn E. Morris 05-04-16
Gene D. Morse 11-6-14
Timothy F. Murphy 05-10-11
Makau W. Mutua 03-20-07
George H. Nancollas 09-28-89
Raoul Naroll 1979
Mulchand S. Patel 11-18-08
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William E. Pelham Jr. 11-18-08
Paras N. Prasad 03-25-97
Chunming Qiao 5-3-17
Dean Pruitt 11-16-89
Hermann Rahn 1972
Peter A. Rogerson 5-10-12
Eli Ruckenstein 09-01-81
Stephen Rudin 03-11-08
Frederick Sachs 11-27-07
Richard Salvi 11-22-11
Barry Smith 03-16-04
Tsu-Teh Soong 03-16-04
Sargur N. Srihari 03-25-97
Edward H. Steinfeld 5-10-12
Esther S. Takeuchi 11-17-09
Dennis E. Tedlock 09-24-02
John E. Tomaszewski 5-3-17
Maurizio Trevisan 11-27-07
David J. Triggle 05-24-89
Jean Wactawski-Wende 11-05-15
Lois M. Weis 11-28-06
Leendert Westerink 1974
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Aidong Zhang 5-7-14
SUNY Distinguished Service Professors
Selig Adler 1975
Sebastian G. Ciancio 06-19-01
James Coover 4-29-92
Alan Drinnan 5-14-94
Saul Elkin 04-24-96
David M. Engel 04-20-04
Charles P. Ewing 04-29-03
Newton Garver 04-25-91
Peter H. Hare 11-07-97
Thomas E. Headrick 05-28-93
John T. Ho 04-25-95
Kenneth Inada 4-22-92
D. Bruce Johnstone 04-12-05
Robert Ketter 1988
Virginia Leary 7-29-93
Mark J. Lema 05-04-16
Murray Levine 04-25-95
Oren R. Lyons 05-28-06
Dennis Malone 4-25-91
Lynn M. Mather 05-07-13
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Norman Mohl 4-25-00
James P. Nolan 04-24-96
Charles V. Paganelli 11-07-97
John F. Quinan 04-12-05
H. Raghavendra Rao 05-11-10
Robert Rossberg 7-19-90
Norman Solkoff 1990
Claude E. Welch 04-24-89
Wolfgang Wölck 05-29-98
Henry Woodburn 1972
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors
James B. Atleson 04-30-01
Jim D. Atwood 11-15-13
Beverly P. Bishop 04-29-92
Harold Brody 04-25-95
Alexander C. Brownie 05-28-93
Kay-Kyung Cho 05-14-94
Diane R. Christian 11-07-97
Robert J. Daly 05-01-90
Charles H. V. Ebert 04-24-89
Murray J. Ettinger 05-24-89
J. Ronald Gentile 5-29-98
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Reid R. Heffner Jr. 5-4-16
Clyde F. Herreid 09-01-88
Perry M. Hogan 04-24-96
Ronald J. Huefner 05-28-93
Kenneth F. Joyce 04-24-96
Mark H. Karwan 05-11-10
Carl R.F. Lund 5-31-07
Roger W. Mayne 04-30-01
James E. McConnell 06-20-00
John A. Meacham 04-27-99
Elizabeth B. Mensch 04-20-04
Charles E. Mitchell 04-20-04
Joseph C. Mollendorf 05-04-16
Mirdza E. Neiders 04-23-02
Jerry M. Newman 04-27-99
Russell J. Nisengard 04-25-91
Johannes M. Nitsche 11-6-14
John J. Peradotto 05-01-90
William J. Rae 04-25-00
Gerald R. Rising 10-16-86
Joyce E. Sirianni 04-29-92
Kenneth J. Takeuchi 5-13-08
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Warren H. Thomas 09-01-77
Joseph J. Zambon 5-13-08
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities In 2002, the State University of New York announced the creation of the Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, designed to recognize
outstanding academic and creative achievements across a broad spectrum of scholarly
and artistic fields. Recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship
and Creative Activities are university faculty members who consistently go above and
beyond their teaching and professional duties to make extraordinary contributions to
their respective fields.
2002
Susan Howe
Barry Smith
2003
Deborah D. L. Chung
Huw M. L. Davies
William J. Jusko
Richard J. Salvi
2004
Anthony S. Conrad
Michael C. Constantinou
David A. Kofke
Eugene D. Morse
Alan Selman
2005
Joseph A. Gardella, Jr.
Claes E.G. Lundgren
John Henry Schlegel
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2006
Douglas H. Clements
Marilyn Emily Morris
Thomas Peter Ralabate
2007
Athol D. Abrahams
Venugopal Govindaraju
H. Reghavendra Rao
Andrei M. Reinhorn
Thomas A. Szyperski
2008
Robert M. Straubinger
Frank A. Scannapieco
Mary Ann Jezewski
2009
Carol S. Brewer
Matthew S. Dryer
Myung Mi Kim
2010
John M. Canty Jr.
Timothy J. Dean
2011
Paschalis Alexandridis
Paul R. Knight III
2012
Anthony L. Auerbach
Jonathan P. Bird
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2013
Richard B. Bankert
Chunming Qiao
Zhen Yan
2014
Stelios T. Andreadis
Steven J. Fliesler
Elad I. Levy
2015
Stella N. Batalama
Ralph H.B. Benedict
Ann M. Bisantz
Sriram Neelamegham
2016
Chang Wen Chen
Jeffrey Errington
Mark G. Frank
Jeffrey Lackner
Hui Meng
2017
Michel Bruneau
Anthony A. Campagnari
Gregory A. Fabiano
Donald Edward Mager
Jinhui Xu
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service The State University of New York announced the inauguration of the Chancellor's Award
for Excellence in Faculty Service in 2004. This newly established honor acknowledges
faculty who have made sustained and wide-ranging service contributions to a broad
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array of university constituents. Recipients of the Award for Excellence in Faculty
Service have distinguished themselves through exceptional service to the university and
to their communities, as well as to their disciplinary, professional, and faculty
governance organizations at the statewide, national, and international levels.
2004
Joseph A. Gardella Jr.
D. Bruce Johnstone
2006
LeAdelle Phelps
2008
Gayle A. Brazeau
2011
Charles L. Stinger
2012
Mark J. Lema
2014
Li Lin
Bernard A. Weinstein
2017
Albert H. Titus
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, instituted by State
University of New York chancellor Ernest L. Boyer in 1973, have demonstrated
outstanding teaching ability through superb classroom performance. They are scholars
who bring to their classes broad academic interests, rigorous and innovative teaching
methodology, and current, far-reaching knowledge. Their concern for students is
evidenced by the individual attention they accord each student and by their commitment
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to helping students to enhance their scholarly and creative abilities and to attain
academic excellence.
1973
Saul Elkin
Rae Ann Hawkes
Elizabeth L. Kennedy
Irving H. Shames
Norman Solkoff
Warren H. Thomas
Howard Tieckelmann
Sol W. Weller
1974
Charles H.V. Ebert
Leslie A. Fiedler
Richard D. Fly
Kenneth M. Kiser
George R. Levine
Hinrich R. Martens
John Moran
Orville T. Murphy
Gordon E. Swartz
Claude E. Welch
1975
Thomas C. Barry
Orville Beachley Jr.
Charles Bernheimer
Beverly P. Bishop
Winston W. Chang
Colin G. Drury
William Hamilton
David Hays
Elaine M. Hull
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John J. Peradotto
Milton Plesur
Sherwood P. Prawel
1976
William S. Allen
Charles V. Clemency
Robert Cooper
Charles H.V. Ebert
Bernard R. Gelbaum
Roger Lane
Dean MacGillivray
James E. McConnell
James Stimson
1977
Norman Baker
W. Leslie Barnette
Robert J. Daly
Dorothy F. Glass
Ronald J. Huefner
James P. LaFountain
Joseph Masling
1978
Robert Bereman
B. Richard Bugelski
Ira Cohen
Richard Jarvis
Catherine L. Olsen
Robert G. Pope
Joyce E. Sirianni
1979
Judith S. Ronald
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1980
Leo C. Curran
Jeannette M. Ludwig
Charles Petrie
Neil Schmitz
1981
Jacques G. Benay
Albert G. Fadell
Robert Gumtow
Clyde F. Herreid
Gerald R. Rising
Joseph J. Tufariello
Thomas Weber
1982
Jerry M. Newman
Donald Nichols
Carmelo A. Privitera
Scott W. Williams
1983
John S. King
Robert Kurland
Erika A. Metzger
1985
James B. Brady
Michael H. Frisch
Joseph C. Mollendorf
1986
Kenneth J. Takeuchi
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1987
Robert D. Allendoerfer
Philip R. Perry
1988
Frank J. Krzystofiak
Jonathan F. Reichert
1989
Joseph F. Atkinson
Barbara J. Bono
Mark H. Karwan
Charles M. Severin
Albert J. Steegman Jr.
1990
Kah-Kyung Cho
David A. Gerber
Arun K. Jain
Neil Yerkey
1991
J. Ronald Gentile
Jack Katz
Christopher A. Loretz
Carl R. F. Lund
Robert E. Mates
Harriet R. Simons
1992
Jennifer Crocker
1993
John A. Meacham
William J. Rae
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Mary Anne Rokitka
Phillips Stevens Jr.
1994
Victor A. Doyno
Richard J. Gonsalves
Richard T. Hull
Michael W. Kibby
David A. Kofke
Charles E. Mitchell
Judith S. Robinson
1995
Richard R. Almon
Stephen J. Free
Stacy C. Hubbard
Michael S. Hudecki
James N. Jensen
William A. Miller
Johannes M. Nitsche
Judith H. Tamburlin
Margarita Vargas
1996
Christina L. Bloebaum
Joseph A. Gardella Jr.
Francis M. Gasparini
Gerald B. Koudelka
James R. Meindl
Joseph R. Natiella
1997
Shahid Ahmad
Michael P. Long
Triantafillos J. Mountziaris
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1998
Rodney L. Doran
Michael G. Fuda
Philip G. Miles
Richard T. Sarkin
M. Beth Tauke
Nancy P. Zimmerman
1999
Carrie Tirado Bramen
John Ringland
Vijay C. Swamy
2000
Frank V. Bright
Todd M. Hennessey
Deidre Lynch
Roger W. Mayne
Alfred D. Price
Bernard A. Weinstein
2001
Kemper E. Lewis
Mirdza E. Neiders
Athos Petrou
2002
Alexander N. Cartwright
Huw M. Davies
Cyrus K. Madnia
Patricia R. McCartney
Natalie C. Simpson
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2003
Jim D. Atwood
Suzanne S. Dickerson
Maria S. Horne
L. Vance Watrous
2004
Jean Brown
Michael R. Detty
Sarah Elder
Kathleen M. Karlinski-Boje
D. Joseph Mook
2005
Christopher S. Cohan
Charles R. Fourtner
Jeri J. Jaeger
2006
Paschalis Alexandridis
Scott G. Grant
2007
Rajan Batta
Hong Luo
Lewis Mandell
David F. Schmid
2008
Robert E. Cohen
Kenneth A. Kim
Yvonne Krall Scherer
Sampson Lee Blair
Kate Rittenhouse-Olson
Troy D. Wood
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2009
Paul E. DesJardin
Michael P. Farrell
Dimitrios A. Pados
2010
Alfredo Aguirre
Nancy Campbell-Heider
David L. Fertig
Andrew M. Stott
Jiyuan Yu
2011
John Cerne
Ernesto G. DeNardin
Debra Anne Street
2012
Daniel B. Hess
Charles D. Lindsey
Carine M. Mardorossian
Jessie Poon
2014
Sean J. Bennett
Gary F. Dargush
William H. Kinney
Alan J. Lesse
Christopher Mele
William D. Solomon
2015
Peter G. Bradford
Steven Miller
Mary Nell Trautner
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2016
Mark Bartholomew
Katharina Dittmar
2017
Amy C. Graves Monroe
William Allan Prescott, Jr.
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching The State University of New York announced the inauguration of the Chancellor's Award
for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching in 2013. The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Adjunct Teaching recognizes consistently superior teaching by adjunct faculty at the
graduate, undergraduate, or professional level. Recipients of this award have
demonstrated outstanding support for intellectual growth of individual students and the
use of relevant contemporary data from their disciplines in their teaching. This
recognition is a system-wide acknowledgment of the contributions and dedication to high
quality education by adjunct teaching faculty.
2014
Kimberly E. Javor
2016
Paul Schifferle
SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Librarianship The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship, first awarded in 1977, is
presented to honor exceptional skill-both professional and scholarly-in librarianship. The
Award in Librarianship pays tribute to noteworthy contributions to the library profession
and extraordinary service to the university.
1977
Carol J. Bradley
Shirley Hesslein
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1978
Manuel Lopez
1979
Shonnie Finnegan
C.K. Huang
1981
Nancy Fabrizio
1982
Marianne Goldstein
1983
Marcia L. Zubrow
1985
Judith Hopkins
William McPheron
1986
Charles A. D'Aniello
1987
Nina Cascio
1989
Lilli Sentz
Dorothy C. Woodson
1990
Christopher Densmore
Karen F. Smith
1991
Michael R. Lavin
Serafino Porcari
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1992
Margaret R. Wells
1993
Gemma DeVinney
Terence McCormack
1994
Judith Adams-Volpe
Susan L. Dow
1995
Gayle J. Hardy-Davis
Cynthia Hepfer
1996
Jean Decker
Donald Hartman
1997
Edward Herman
Glendora Johnson-Cooper
Nancy Schiller
1998
William Hepfer
Ellen McGrath
1999
Ellen M. Gibson
Sharon A. Gray
Susan M. Neumeister
2000
Susan Davis Bartl
Deborah Husted-Koshinsky
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2001
Nancy Bren Nuzzo
2002
Renee B. Bush
Karen D. Senglaup
2003
Mary F. Miller
2004
Karen L. Spencer
2005
H. Austin Booth
2006
Amy G. Lyons
Ben Wagner
2007
Marilyn M. Kramer
Lori J. Widzinski
2008
Cynthia A. Bertuca
Cynthia A. Tysick
Daisy P. Waters
2010
Nancy M. Babb
John M. Bewley
2011
Elizabeth G. Adelman
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2012
Joseph L. Gerken
Dean Hendrix
Laura L. Taddeo
2013
David J. Bertuca
Charles F. Lyons
2014
Christopher V. Hollister
2015
Theodora Belniak
Michelle L. Zafron
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service Introduced in 1977, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service
honors members of the professional staff whose extraordinary service contributions have
significantly enriched the university. The Award in Professional Service is presented to
professional staff members who serve energetically, innovatively, and knowledgeably in
their fields.
1977
James Blackhurst
Patricia Colvard
J. Warren Perry
Shirley Stout
1978
Shirley Ahrens
Bertha Cutcher
Bernice Poss
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1980
Arlene R. Bergwall
Gerald L. O'Grady
Robert J. Wagner
1981
Frank J. Corbett
Marilou T. Healey
1982
Michael Moran
1984
June E. Licence
1988
Marlene M. Cook
Frank T. Schimpfhauser
1990
John A. Edens
Florence Fradin
Linda F. Grace-Kobas
Joseph J. Krakowiak
Muriel A. Moore
1991
Nancy M. Kielar
1992
Christine E. Sauciunac
1993
Patricia A. Coty
Peter S. Gold
Donald F. Hanavan
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1994
Raymond P. Dannenhoffer
Jane A. Liebner
Stephen M. Roberts
1995
Rita Green Lipsitz
Judith K. Miller
1996
Peter G. Avery
Dennis R. Black
Henry J. Durand
Joseph P. Lane
1997
Martha A. Barton
Sandra J. Fazekas
Maryanne L. Mather
Leonard F. Snyder
1998
John M. Grela
Eileen L. Hassett
Sean P. Sullivan
Nelson E. Townsend
1999
Judith C. Applebaum
Madison L. Boyce
Elias G. Eldayrie
Pamela C. Jones
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2000
Lawrence E. Chlebowy
Roger R. McGill
Barbara J. Ricotta
Regina S. Toomey
2001
Josephine A. Capuana
Shelley Frederick
Albert "Budd" Termin
James O. Whitlock
2002
Voldemar A. Innus
Janina L. Kaars
David J. Nuzzo
Stephen N. Wallace
2003
Marguerite E. Knowles
Timothy J. Rutenber
John B. Sheffer II
2004
Bruce Majkowski
Dean Millar
2005
Diane M. Dittmar
David L. Gilles-Thomas
Stefanos C. Papazaharias
2006
Barbara A. Burke
Joseph J. Hindrawan
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Laura S. Mangan
Cheryl J. Taplin
Raymond D. Volpe
2007
Michael F. Dupre
Mark C. Pitman
William J. Regan
M. Eileen Sylves
Courtney J. Walsh
2008
Randall E. Borst
Priscilla B. Clarke
Andrea Costantino
Ellen A. Dussourd
Walter Simpson
2009
Amy Loucks-DiMatteo
Dinesh K. Sukumaran
2010
Mary Anne Rokitka
Steven L. Shaw
2011
Michael D. Basinski
Erin E. Danna-Bailey
Peter H. Rittner
Letitia L. Thomas
2012
Hadar Borden
Nancy C. Recupero
Robert J. Scalise
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2013
Edward F. Brodka
Jacqueline T. Hollins
William J. McDonnell
Mary Virginia O'Brien
John J. Wood
2014
Bárbara I. Ávila-Shah
Scott A. Hollander
Joseph O. Kerr
Cynthia M. Shore
Kurt F. Winter
2015
Beth A. Corry
Elaine R. Cusker
John DellaContrada
Valerie A. Frerichs
Jacqueline Molik Ghosen
Krista Hanypsiak
Kevin Leary
Patricia Shyhalla
2016
David G. Costello
Elizabeth R. Harding
Christina R. Hernandez
Kara Saunders
Roberta (Robin) Sullivan
Radhika Suresh
Cheryl B. Williams
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2017
Gwen Appelbaum
Laura J. Barnum
Oscar A. Budde
Katharine P. Darling
Christa M. Greenberg
Joseph J. Helfer
Andrew Koenig
Jennifer Rosenberg
John S. Taylor, Sr.
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Classified Service Established in 2008, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Classified Service
gives employees in the Classified Services system-wide recognition of exceptional
achievements and superior performance of duties. The award in classified service
honors those employees who continuously demonstrate outstanding achievement,
commitment to excellence, and exemplary customer service.
2009
Candace A. Carroll
Lucille H. Kierejewski
Angela G. Reibel
2010
Elizabeth G. Felmet
Rose Marie LoGrasso
Diane M. Szalda
2011
Carolanne B. Cirincione
Julie M. Smith
Dawn Townsend
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2012
Betsy A. Crooksy
Evelyn F. Hufford
Mary C. Schnepf
2013
Teresa P. Dean
Patricia A. Thomann
2014
Nancy F. Schimenti
Joyce A. Troy
2015
Vickie Searight
Deborah Szurgyi
Paul Wilcox
2016
Barbara Hammer
Carol Lennox
Mary O'Brien
2017
Laura Palka
Jodi Reiner
Cheryl Tubisz
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Internationalization Created through an initiative of the State University of New York Office of International
Programs in 2003, the Chancellor's Award for Internationalization recognizes and helps
sponsor outstanding faculty and staff efforts that enable students to gain valuable
academic experiences in parts of the world that are not commonly visited or studied. In
supporting the development of unique overseas learning opportunities, the Award for
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Internationalization honors exceptional contributions to fostering international cultural
and educational exchange.
2004
Patrick F. McDevitt
Samuel M. Paley
John H. Stone
Jason R. Young
2005
Maria S. Horne
D. Joseph Mook
2012
Peter Biehl
UB President's Medal The University at Buffalo President's Medal shall be awarded in recognition of signal and
extraordinary service to the University. Such service may comprise scholarly or artistic
achievements, humanitarian acts, contributions of time or treasure, outstanding
leadership, or any other act that makes a major contribution to the development of, or
quality of life within, the University.
1990
Charles M. Fogel
1992
William B. Hoyt
1993
Northrup R. Knox
1993
Robert Wilmers
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1994
John L. Hettrick, Sr.
1994
Robert H. Rossberg
1995
George C. Lee
1996
Irving Freedman
1997
Philip B. Wels
1998
Lawrence P. Castellani
2000
Mary E. Randolph
2000
John N. Walsh III
2002
Robert J. Wagner
2003
Reginald B. Newman II
2007
Stephen C. Dunnett
2008
Robert Genco
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2010
Robert G. Shibley
2012
Angelo M. Fatta
Bruce D. McCombe
2013
Diane R. Christian
Edmond J. Gicewicz
2014
Robert D. Gioia
Nancy H. Nielsen
2015
John T. Ho
Gerald S. Lippes
2016
Paras N. Prasad
Claude E. Welch Jr.
2017
Margarita L. Dubocovich
Francis M. Letro
UB Distinguished Professors The Office of the Provost created the rank of UB Distinguished Professors to honor full
professors who have achieved national or international recognition as experts in their
fields of study. UB Distinguished Professors are members of the faculty who have been
full professors for a minimum of five years with a demonstrated record of excellence in
artistic or scholarly contributions.
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2002
Athol D. Abrahams
Guyora Binder
Frank V. Bright
Jonathan S. Dewald
Colin G. Drury
Stephen L. Dyson
Isaac Ehrlich
Peyman Givi
Alfred S. Konefsky
Howard K. Kuramitsu
Russ Miller
Frederick Sachs
Jeffrey Skolnick
Stanley Zionts
2003
Huw M. L. Davies
Leonard H. Epstein
Michael F. Sheridan
Barbara H. Tedlock
2004
Joan K. Copiec
Paresh Dandona
Jo L. Freudenheim
David A. Kofke
Timothy F. Murphy
Mulchand S. Patel
William E. Pelham Jr.
2005
Lois M. Weis
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2007
Francis M. Gasparini
David A. Gerber
William J. Jusko
Frank C. Zagare
2008
Nallan C. Suresh
2009
Paschalis Alexandridis
Venugopal Govindaraju
Daniel J. Kosman
2011
Robert E. Baier
James E. Campbell
Paul R. Knight III
Teresa Quattrin
Stanley A. Schwartz
Thomas Szyperski
2012
Ho-Leung Fung
James Olson
Athos Petrou
John Richard
Aidong Zhang
2013
Anne B. Curtis
Stephen L. Jacobson
Jean-Jacques Thomas
Joseph P. Valente
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2014
Carol S. Brewer
Steven J. Fliesler
Marilyn E. Morris
Mark T. Swihart
Lawrence Wrabetz
2015
John H. Schlegel
2016
Janet R. Morrow
2017
Robert M. Straubinger
Gil I. Wolfe
UB Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award The Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award, established by UB's Graduate
School in 2011, annually honors and publicly recognizes exceptional excellence in
faculty mentoring of graduate students at UB. Award recipients are faculty members who
have demonstrated outstanding and sustained support and development of graduate
students from course completion through research and subsequent career placement.
Nominees for the award must be current members of the UB Graduate Faculty and have
held faculty appointment at UB for at least five years.
2012
Paschalis Alexandridis
Luis A. Colon
2013
Diana S. Aga
Suzanne S. Dickerson
Thomas H. Feeley
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2014
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen
Sharon S. Evans
2015
Rajan Batta
Anthony A. Campagnari
Yvonne K. Scherer
2016
Margarita L. Dubocovich
Mark R. O'Brian
2017
Venu Govindaraju
Jennifer Read
UB Exceptional Scholars - Sustained Achievement Award The Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement was created by the
University at Buffalo in 2002 to honor outstanding professional achievement that has
been focused on a particular body of work over a number of years. This award was
created to recognize an unprecedented accomplishment in a senior scholar's career,
distinguishing a body of work of enduring importance that has gone beyond the norm in
a particular field of study.
2002
Paschalis Alexandridis
Anthony Auerbach
Rajan Batta
Ronald Berezney
Libuse Bobek
Gerard Bucher
Anthony Campagnari
James Campbell
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Douglas Clements
Joan Copjec
John Corcoran
Huw Davies
Ernesto DeNardin
David Engel
Leonard Epstein
David Felder
Jo Freudenheim
Francis Gasparini
Elaine Hull
Robert Jacobi
Mary Ann Jezewski
William Jusko
Paul Knight
David Kofke
Suzanne Laychock
David Mark
Eugene Morse
Samuel Paley
Mulchand Patel
Peter Rogerson
Stephen Schanuel
Stanley Schwartz
Alan Selman
Stuart Shapiro
Nancy Smyth
Robert Steinfeld
Robert VanValin
Lois Weis
Roger Woodard
Chia Ping Yu
Frank Zagare
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2003
Jean Brown
John Canty
Venugopal Govindaraju
Jeannette Johnson
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Daniel Kosman
John Richard
Stephen Rudin
Malcolm Slaughter
Nallan Suresh
Joseph Zambon
Aidong Zhang
2004
Carol Brewer
Catherine Cornbleth
Richard Donahue
Marcus Dubber
Winston Lin
Claes Lundgren
Richard Ohrbach
David Pendergast
Jerrold Winter
2005
Vivian Cody
Vladimir Mitin
Madhavan Nair
LeAdelle Phelps
Chungming Qiao
Ram Ramesh
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2006
Wayne Anderson
Kee Chung
Jeremy Finn
Mark O'Brian
Andrei Reinhorn
John Yeh
2007
Michel Bruneau
James Olson
G. Lawrence Sanders
2008
Richard B. Bankert
Jonathan P. Bird
Rakesh Nagi
Sanjay Sethi
2009
Stelios Andreadis
Richard E. Ellis
Jean Wactawski-Wende
2010
Alexander N. Cartwright
James A. Gardner
Li Lin
Jerome A. Roth
Mark T. Swihart
Georgirene Vladutiu
2011
Steven L. Dubovsky
Stephen L. Jacobson
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Sriram Neelamegham
Hui Meng
Dimitrios Pados
Randall Rasmusson
2012
Kazimierz Braun
Chang Wen Chen
Thomas A. Russo
Debabrata Talukdar
Zhen Yan
2013
Joseph L. Izzo
Shambhu J. Upadhyaya
Bianca Weinstock-Guttman
2014
Drucy S. Borowitz
Jeffrey R. Errington
Hanfeng Li
Natalia M. Litchinitser
Andrea Markelz
Laurie K. Read
Paul E. Tesluk
2015
Chester H. Fox
Susan Zonglu Hua
Janet R. Morrow
Norma J. Nowak
Noreen Williams
Jinhui Xu
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2016
Irus Braverman
Thomas H. Feeley
M. Laura Feltri
Murali Ramanathan
Kui Ren
Brahm H. Segal
Doreen Wackeroth
2017
Sathy V. Balu-Iyer
Gino Biondini
Jian Feng
Kemper E. Lewis
Karin Michelson
Blaine Pfeifer
UB Exceptional Scholars - Young Investigator Award Introduced in 2002, the University at Buffalo's Exceptional Scholar Award for Young
Investigators celebrates a recent superior achievement of a scholar in his/her field of
study. Such an achievement will have distinguished the recipient as an up-and-coming
scholar, as well as earned the individual acclaim for his/her work, which could be a
published work or other scholastic or artistic endeavor.
2002
Joseph Balthasar
Matthew Becker
Ann Bisantz
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
John Crassidis
Gregory Dimitriadis
William Eggington
Jian Feng
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Sarah Gaffen
Keith Kirkwood
Tanya LaPier
Sriram Neelamegham
Thomas Obst
Karen Randolph
Jolene Rickard
Patrick Smith
Hiroaki Suga
Debabrata Talukdar
Stephen Truscott
Deborah Waldrop
David Westbrook
Zhen Yan
Jiyuan Yu
2003
Stylianos Andreadis
Josephine Anstey
Ana Mariella
Bacigalupo
Marc Bohlen
Jose Buscaglia
Mark Cameron
Steven Diver
Xin Lin
James Wooten
2004
David Hershenov
Guofang Li
Athena Mutua
Feng Qin
Holger Schunemann
Ellen Smit
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2005
Jeffrey Errington
Daniel Hess
Hung Ngo
Satrajit Sinha
2006
Marcia Boehmke
Igor Jankovic
Donald Mager
Yoshiko Nozaki
Mark Sutton
Albert Titus
2007
Jochen Autschbach
Tony W. Tong
Christina Tsai
2008
Gilberto Mosqueda
Sarah-Jeanne Salvy
Darren Treadway
Brian T. Tsuji
2009
Gregory A. Fabiano
Mary Ann Meeker
Yong-Kyu Yoon
Hao Zeng
2010
Matthew R. Bonner
Murat Demirbas
Matthew D. Disney
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Gabriela Popescu
Sheng Zhong
2011
Sarbajit Banerjee
Jason J. Corso
Charles D. Lindsey
Atri Rudra
Puneet Singla
Jennifer L. Temple
2012
Heather M. Ochs-Balcom
Javid Rzayev
Sanjukta D. Smith
Wenjun Zheng
2013
Jiyoung Park
Gesualdo Scutari
Jun Zhuang
2014
Steven Y. Ko
Jun-Xu Li
Margaret W. Sallee
Eva Zurek
2015
Iman Borazjani
David Dietz
Changhyun Kwon
Xuefeng Ren
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2016
Samantha Barbas
Qiaoqiang Gan
Jonathan Lovell
Manoranjan Majji
Dhaval K. Shah
Hua (Helen) Wang
2017
Ashley Brooke Barr
Walter N. Hakala
Juliane Nguyen
Lu Su
Zhi Sun
Chi Zhou
UB President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring (formerly the UB Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
and Creative Activity)
This new award, which was established in the spring of 2011, recognizes the
outstanding faculty mentorship that currently exists at UB and seeks to encourage
further faculty commitment to and participation in the undergraduate research and
creative experience.
2011
John Ringland
Kate Rittenhouse-Olson
Kenneth J. Takeuchi
Jennifer L. Zirnheld
2012
Maria S. Horne
Satpal Singh
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Jun Zhuang
2013
James Jensen
Kemper Lewis
Gail Willsky
2014
Stephen Free
Rajendram Rajnarayanan
Beth Tauke
2015
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Lance Rintamaki
Mark T. Swihart
2016
Laura M. Anderson
Barbara J. Bono
Annette W. LeCuyer
2017
Martha C. Bohm
John L. Crassidis
Walter N. Hakala
UB Teaching Innovation Award Established to honor exceptional educational pedagogy, UB's Award for Teaching
Innovation was created in 2003 to recognize faculty who have contributed significantly to
engaging students with new methods and approaches to teaching. The award
recognizes faculty members whose innovative teaching methods have a demonstrable
effect on enhancing student learning-outcomes.
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2003
John Cotter
2006
Curtis Haas
2007
Deborah Waldrop
2008
Yvonne K. Scherer
Robert G. Wahler
2009
Mark Bartholomew
Joseph F. Salamone
Randy K. Yerrick
2010
Daniel A. Brazeau
Albert H. Titus
2011
Sathy V. Balu-Iyer
Marc S. Halfon
Theresa A. Winkelman
2012
Sharon J. Hewner
2013
Thomas E. Melendy
2014
Deborah A. Moore-Russo
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2015
William A. Prescott, Jr.
2016
M. Susan Grinslade
Steven Y. Ko
2017
Alexander Nikolaev
Jessica Poulin
Lukasz Ziarek
