Every year, SUNY and numerous academic and professional organizations honor hundreds of UUPers for top accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in their communities. The Voice is pleased to recognize four of these members here.

• Laura Kaminsky, a professor of music at Purchase State College and a world-renowned composer, recently took part in a two-week fellowship in Russia designed to help promote Russian culture in the U.S. The fellowship was awarded by the Likhachev Foundation.

• Roxana Pisiak, a professor of humanities at Morrisville State College, recently earned a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes professors who show scholarship and growth and a commitment to students.

• Patrick Regan, a professor of political science at Binghamton University, has written a new book, Sixteen Million One: Understanding Civil War (Paradigm, 2009). Regan draws from a decade of research on civil conflicts to explore the conditions that would drive individuals to take on the life of a rebel.

• Anjali Sharma, an assistant professor of medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has been awarded a three-year $300,000 grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study bone loss among adults with or at risk for HIV. She is director of Downstate’s Adult Inpatient HIV?Services and medical director of the Buprenorphine Clinic for the STAR?Health Center.

— Karen L. Mattison