Interim President Michael Bernstein honored more than 65 faculty and staff at the Annual Awards and Recognition Dinner on October 3, 2019. Dr. Bernstein, joined by Interim Provost Minghua Zhang, celebrated recent faculty achievements, appointments to distinguished professorships and Chancellor’s Awards recipients.
“As a young institution, our rise to excellence has been rapid. We started as a teacher’s college in 1957, eventually evolving to an R-1 university and becoming a member of the AAU by 2001,” said Bernstein as he began his remarks. “How did we transform into an AAU institution in a matter of decades? We excelled in key metrics: doctoral education, program impact and faculty quality.
“Our faculty and staff continue to set the standard of excellence at our University,” Bernstein continued, telling the awardees that “your legacy at Stony Brook is defined by much more than these awards and recognitions. It is marked indelibly by the imprint you leave on our next generation of leaders. We are fortunate to have you as educators and mentors at our institution.”
Congratulations to this year’s honorees:
Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Adjunct Teaching: Maria Brown, Dmitri Gavrilov
Classified Service: Martha Genao, James Williams
Faculty Service: Michael Dudley, Eugene Hammond, Sheri Levi
Professional Service: Janice Barone, Dorothy Joy Corbett, Jennifer Dellaposta, Diane Fabel, Susan Fioto, Diana Hannan, Edward McFadden, Sheila Routh, Ann-Marie Scheidt
Scholarship and Creative Activities: Axel Drees, Vladimir Korepin, Robert Rizzo, Dimitrios Samaras
Teaching: Brenda Anderson, Paul Foder, Edward Luk
Faculty Achievements
Anissa Abi-Dargham, Leiber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research
Alan Alda, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation National Humanism in Medicine Award; The Novim Epiphany Award for Science Awareness
Harvey Aronson, Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame
Nerissa S. Balce, Best Book in Cultural Studies from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies
Steven Beaupré, CFAMS/Robert Schneider Prize
Brooke Belisle, Getty/ACLS (American Consortium of Learned Societies) Fellow in Art History; NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Surita R. Bhatia, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Women’s Initiatives Committee Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Engineering Award
Xiaojun Bi, Google Faculty Research Award
Christopher Bishop, American Mathematical Society, Fellow
Michele Bogart, Society of Fellows, the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Center for American Visual Studies
Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Dominican Studies Archives and Research Award (CUNY)
Terri A. Cavaliere, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Fellow
Xiuxiong Chen, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Fu-Pen Chiang, W.M. Murray Lecturer Award
Joanne Davila, American Psychological Association, Division 12, Society of Clinical Psychology, Fellow
Mark Andrea De Cataldo, American Mathematical Society, Fellow
Stephanie Dinkins, Soros Equality Fellow
Simon Donaldson, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Jared Farmer, Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin; Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Heather Findletar, Hines American College of Nurse-Midwives (FACNM), Fellow
Iris C. Fineberg, Association of Oncology Social Work, Fellow
Lori Flores, Winner, Martin Ridge Book Award, Historical Society of Southern California
Jarrod French, Cottrell Scholar Award; NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Bettina C. Fries, President of Infectious Diseases Society of New York
Anshul Gandhi, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Giselle Gerardi, Jonas Health Policy Scholar; Mary Lou Welch Diversity in Nursing Award
Marvin R. Goldfried, APA/American Psychological Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for the Application of Psychology; Recipient of the 2018 APA/American Psychological Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for the Application of Psychology
Thomas Graf, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Robert Grubbs, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Jessica Gurevitch, Distinguished Professor
Yusuf Hannun, Distinguished Professor
Michael Huang, Distinguished Librarian
Imin Kao, National Academy of Inventors, Member
Arie Kaufman, National Academy of Inventors, Fellow
Kenneth Kaushansky, National Academy of Inventors, Fellow; University Council
Stephanie Kelton, Distinguished Alumni Award, The New School for Social Research; National Academy of Social Insurance, Member
Dmitri Kharzeev, Distinguished Professor
Kedar Kirane, Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant
Zohar Komargodski, Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences
Lee Koppelman, Dedication of the Preserve by Town of Brookhaven
Stephen Kottmeier, Academic Achievement Award
Mary Kritzer, Distinguished Service Professor
Susan Lane, American College of Physicians Laureate Award
Matthew Lerner, Certificate of Merit; Proclamation of Recognition; SASI Autism Hero Award; Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Research Award
Marci Lobel, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Fellow
Benjamin Martin, The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research
Carmen McCoy, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Outreach to Consumers Award
Russ Mittermeier, Indianapolis Prize for Conservation
Ute Moll, Distinguished Professor
Klaus Mueller, Induction to the National Academy of Inventors
Andrew J. Nicholson, Stewart Fellowship, Princeton University Humanities Council
Nick Nikiforakis, Amazon Research Award
Daniel O’Leary, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Iwao Ojima, ACS Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products
Alexander Orlov, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award
Robert Patro, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Michalis Polychronakis, DARPA Young Faculty Award; NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Kimberly Poppiti, Herbert D. Greggs Award
Suparna Rajaram, Distinguished Professor
Leonardo Rastelli, Best Paper Prize, Journal of Physics A
Eliza Jane Reilly, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Lauren Richmond, Association for Psychological Science Rising Star
Georgios Romanos, Great of New York Academy of Prosthodontics (GNYAP), Fellow
Clinton Rubin, National Academy of Inventors, Fellow
Emre Salman, IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award
Nicole Sampson, Distinguished Professor
Romeil Sandhu, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Michael Schwartz, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
Trevor Sears, American Physical Society, Fellow
Christopher Sellers, Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article in Environmental History
Carrie Shandra, Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar
Shobana Shankar, Africa’s Asian Options Fellow, University of Frankfurt
Gary Sherman, Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management
Edward V. Shuryak, APS Herman Feshbach prize for Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Steven Skiena, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Francis Stellaccio, American Society of Anesthesiologists (FASA), Fellow
George Sterman, Erwin-Schrödinger Guest Professorship Univ. of Viennna; Heinrich Herz Lecture
William Studier, National Academy of Inventors, Fellow
Edward Sun, Alpha Omega Alpha (ΑΩΑ) Honor Medical Society Membership
Esther S. Takeuchi, European Inventor Award in the “Non-EPO countries;” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Leon Takhtajan, Distinguished Professor
Joshua Teplitsky, The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Peter Tonge, Distinguished Professor
Christine Vachon, Pink Apple Fest 2018 – Festival Award; The Creative Coalition 2018 Spotlight Initiative Award
Ya Wang, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Ken Weitzman, The City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting
Michelle Whittaker, Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Vincent Yang, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Minghua Zhang, Distinguished Professor
Yimei Zhu, Distinguished Scientist Award, Microscopy Society of America
For a complete list of all faculty achievements and Chancellor’s Awards received by Stony Brook faculty and staff through the years, please visit stonybrook.edu/provost/faculty/awards/.
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