Each year, hundreds of UUPers publish books and articles, and are recognized for accomplishments on campus and in their communities. The Voice is pleased to recognize three members in this issue.

• Two Plattsburgh UUPers recently achieved the rank of distinguished professor and distinguished service professor, respectively. Alexis Levitin, right, and Edward Miller, center, were recognized by the SUNY Board of Trustees as being among the University’s most brilliant scholars and teachers.

Levitin gained international acclaim for translating the music of Portuguese poetry into English. Those trans-lations have appeared in 33 anthologies and more than 200 literary magazines, and have resulted in 30 books.

Miller has developed and taught a wide range of chemistry courses, directed numerous research experiences and taught Freshman Experience seminars. He has created opportunities for students as founding adviser of the college’s Chemistry Club. He earned an American Institute of Chemists Award from St. Joseph’s University, and has received several grants and fellowships.

• SUNY Maritime humanities professor Eric Fallen’s play “Perfect Weather” was one of only 40 plays chosen from among nearly 900 submissions and selected as one of the 2010 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival’s Final Forty Playwrights.

Fallen—whose plays have been produced in New York, Baltimore and Toronto—holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College and is a contributing playwright at Naked Angels, a non-profit theater company in New York City.

— Karen L. Mattison