President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D., Lauds Distinguished Faculty
STONY BROOK, N.Y., December 3, 2010 — More than 50 Stony Brook University faculty members were honored at the annual Faculty Achievement dinner at Watermill Caterers last month. Established in 1992, the event recognizes those who received prestigious national and international fellowships, honors, and awards during the previous academic year.
In celebrating the faculty’s extraordinary accomplishments, Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D., said, “Faculties are the heart of a University, and nowhere is that more evident than at Stony Brook. Our faculty continues to break new ground in research and reach the height of intellectual distinction.
“Their enthusiasm, scholarly achievements, and professionalism shape this University,” continued Dr. Stanley. “Our campus community is comprised of intellectual leaders widely admired and celebrated in the far corners of the world for their insights and discoveries.”
Eric. W. Kaler, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, also extolled the faculty for their achievements.
“The Stony Brook University faculty is a remarkable group that brings home honors year upon year,” he said. In commending the faculty, he also challenged each of them to mentor young colleagues and students.
“Now is the time to put these honors to work,” said Provost Kaler. “You are the recognized and respected thought leaders of our institution, the guides to the future, and the determiners of what we become.”
Following are the specific achievements—given between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010—for each honored faculty member (listed alphabetically by department):
Anesthesiology
Congwu Du
Outstanding Mentor for the Department of Energy
Ralph Epstein
Elected Chair of the New York State Board for Dentistry
Peter Glass
President Elect for the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia
Srinivas Pentyala
Senior Scientist Award from the Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy
Stephen Vitkun
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Paul Willoughby
Elected President of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Joseph Mitchell
Godel Prize Winner awarded by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery
Alan Tucker
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Art
Barbara Frank
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship
Asian and Asian American Studies
William Chittick
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Aruna Sharma
Senior Faculty Research Fellowship of the American Institute of India Studies
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Robert Haltiwanger
Elected President of the Society for Glycobiology
Biomedical Engineering
Danny Bluestein
Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers
Molly Frame
Fellow, American Physiological Society, Cardiovascular Section
Lilianne Mujica-Parodi
National Science Foundation Career Award
Balaji Sitharaman
IDEA Award, Breast Cancer Defense Program, Department of Defense
Business
Manuel London
Article of the Year Award by the Association for Human Resource Development
Book of the Year Award by the Association for Human Resource Development
Chemistry
Clare Grey
John Jeyes Award for Chemistry
Computer Science
Arie Kaufman
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Ecology and Evolution
Edwin Battley
Lavoisier Medal awarded by the International Society for Biological Calorimetry
- James Rohlf
Alice Hamilton Award in the Human Studies Category
John Wiens
Teminck Fellowship from the Natural History Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands
European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Luigi Fontanella
Honorary Citizenship for Cultural Merit, Prata di Principato, Ultra Italy
Sarah Jourdain
Selected as the Knight in the Order of Academic Palms by the French government
Geosciences
Scott McLennan
Fellow, Geochemical Society and European Association for Geochemistry
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
John Parise
Distinguished Professor
A. Deanne Rogers
NASA Early Career Fellowship Award
Teng-Fong Wong
Louis Néel Medal of the European Geosciences Union
History
Paul Gootenberg
Received CHOICE Distinguished Title Award
Sara Lipton
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library
Humanities Institute
- Ann Kaplan
Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University
Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Cindy Lee
Inaugural John Hedges Scholar at the University of Washington
Mathematics
Dennis Sullivan
Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics
Music
The Emerson String Quartet
Eugene Drucker
Grammy Award Winner: Best Chamber Music Performance
Lawrence Dutton
Grammy Award Winner: Best Chamber Music Performance
David Finckel
Grammy Award Winner: Best Chamber Music Performance
Philip Setzer
Grammy Award Winner: Best Chamber Music Performance
Sarah Fuller
Lifetime Membership in the Society for Music Theory
Joanna Kaczorowska
First Prize in the Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition in the category, Collaborative Artists: Duo Engembles with Piano
Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition: Best Interpretation Award for Outstanding Performance of Works by Franz Liszt
Daria Semegen
Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership
Benjamin Steege
Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Neurobiology and Behavior
Alfredo Fontanini
Ajinomoto Award for Young Investigators in Gustation
Nursing
Marie Marino
Elected President of the International Association of Forensic Nurses
Bruce Zitkus
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners New York State Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/School of Dental Medicine
Allan Kucine
Stephen H. Leeper Award for Teaching Excellence from Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the National Dental Honor Society
Oral Biology and Pathology/School of Dental Medicine
Israel Kleinberg
William J. Gies Award
Maria Ryan
Victress Health Award
Pediatrics
Richard Fine
Nephrology Seminars Award
Honorary Membership in Polish Society of Pediatric Nephrology
Award from Children’s Hospital of Warsaw
Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Pediatric Nephrology Association
Shetal Shah
National Citation of Merit from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Congressional Citation for research passing the Newborn Influenza Protection Act
Fulbright Scholarship
Philosophy
Eva Kittay
Distinguished Professor
Physician Assistant Education/School of Health Technology and Management
Paul Lombardo
Master Faculty Award from the Physician Assistant Education Association
Physics and Astronomy
Philip Allen
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Barbara Jacak
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Laszlo Mihaly
Elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Political Science
Gallya Lahav
Elected Visiting Swiss Chair of Migration Studies
Preventive Medicine
Melody Goodman
Appointed to the New York State Minority Health Council
Leslie Hyman
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Fellow
Steven Jonas
Distinguished Alumni Award from Yale School of Public Health
Stephen McCrary
Selected for Fulbright Specialists Program in New Zealand by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
Provost’s Office
Eric W. Kaler
Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Brent Lindquist
Lee Segel Prize
Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Evelyn Bromet
Distinguished Professor
Psychology
Marvin Goldfried
Elected President, Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12
Sociology
Ivan Chase
Lee Segel Prize
Kenneth Feldman
Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education
Arnout Van De Rijt
European Academy of Sociology Prize for Best Article
Linton C. Freeman Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis
Women’s Studies
Ritchie Calvin
Mary Kay Bray Award from the Science Fiction Research Association
About Stony Brook University
Part of the State University of New York system, Stony Brook University encompasses 200 buildings on 1,450 acres. In the 53 years since its founding, the University has grown tremendously, now with nearly 25,000 students and 2,200 faculty and is recognized as one of the nation’s important centers of learning and scholarship. It is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, and ranks among the top 100 national universities in America and among the top 50 public national universities in the country according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report survey. Considered one of the “flagship” campuses in the SUNY system, Stony Brook University co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, joining an elite group of universities, including Berkeley, University of Chicago, Cornell, MIT, and Princeton that run federal research and development laboratories. SBU is a driving force of the Long Island economy, with an annual economic impact of $4.65 billion, generating nearly 60,000 jobs, and accounts for nearly 4% of all economic activity in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and roughly 7.5 percent of total jobs in Suffolk County.
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