Each year, SUNY and numerous academic and professional groups honor hundreds of UUPers for outstanding accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in the communities.

The Voice is pleased to recognize three of these members this month.

• Lawrence Fialkow of SUNY New Paltz has been granted the rank of distinguished professor of mathematics and computer science. The distinguished professor designation is conferred on individuals who have achieved national or international prominence in a chosen field.

Fialkow, a 2001 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence, is an accomplished mathematics scholar who has achieved worldwide recognition for his seminal research in functional analysis.

• Kathleen Lesniak, an assistant professor of science education and coordinator of science education programs at SUNY Fredonia, recently received a $5,000 National Education Association (NEA) Foundation and Leadership grant to enhance the learning of science teacher candidates in accelerated graduate programs. She shares the award with Milissa Albano, a teacher at Southwestern High School in Jamestown.

NEA Foundation grant recipients are selected on their potential to enhance student achievement. This year, the foundation awarded 51 grants nationwide.

• Leo Wilton, an associate professor of human development and Africana studies at Binghamton University, was one of six people nationwide appointed to a four-year term on the Director’s Council of Public Representatives at the National Institutes of Health.

Wilton specializes in health disparities related to HIV and AIDS in black communities and is regional trainer for the American Psychological Association’s HIV Office for Psychology Education.

— Karen L. Mattison