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Spotlight on UUPers

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Every year, the state university and numerous academic and professional organizations honor hundreds of UUP members for outstanding accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in their communities. The Voice is pleased to recognize some of these members:

• Joseph Bowman Jr., an associate professor in the department of educational theory and practice and the director of the Center for Urban Youth and Technology at UAlbany, was recently re-elected as an at-large member of the New York State Board of Regents representing Judicial District III, which covers Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties. He was first elected in 2004.

• Daniel Gagliardi, an assistant professor of mathematics at SUNY Canton, co-wrote Introduction to Linear Algebra with Applications with James DeFranza, a professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics at St. Lawrence University. The book, published by McGraw Hill, adopts a student-oriented, conversational writing style and integrated real-world applications.

— Karen L. Mattison

Spotlight on UUPers

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Every year, the state university and numerous academic and professional organizations honor hundreds of UUP members for outstanding accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in their communities.

The Voice is pleased to recognize some of these members here.

• Stacia Dutton, a computer information systems instructor in SUNY?Canton’s Canino School of Engineering Technology, is heading up The Next Step Program, an industrial partnership developed for full-time Verizon employees to earn their associate degrees. Dutton earned the appointment based on her extensive industrial experience and in recognition of her ability to bridge the gap between industry and higher education.

• Daniel Gagliardi, an assistant professor of mathematics at SUNY Canton, co-wrote Introduction to Linear Algebra with Applications with James DeFranza, a professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics at St. Lawrence University. The book, published by McGraw Hill, adopts a student-oriented, conversational writing style and integrated real-world applications.

• Candace Merbler, a reference support associate in UAlbany’s University Libraries, recently earned a Chancellor’s Award for outstanding service. Merbler has worked at UAlbany since 1980. She has served SUNY and UUP?as a member of the University Senate and as co-chair of the Advisory Committee on Campus Safety, as well as in several elected UUP chapter positions and on the statewide UUP?Executive Board.

• Bruce Wright, an agricultural engineering professor at SUNY?Cobleskill, was recently recognized by John Deere for achieving advanced level status as a John Deere TECH instructor. The recognition required Wright to complete extensive John Deere product technical training, which will help to ensure that SUNY?Cobleskill students will gain critical skills in servicing the extensive technology and high- performance computer systems designed into the newest equipment.

— Karen L. Mattison

Spotlight on UUPers

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Every year, the state university and numerous academic and professional organizations honor hundreds of UUP members for outstanding accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in their communities.

The Voice is pleased to recognize some of these members here.

• Lois Baker, a senior health sciences editor in the Office of University Communications at the University at Buffalo, was recently elected as a fellow of the 5,500-member American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). Fellowships recognize members who have made substantial contributions to the goals and activities of AMWA and to their profession.

• James Cretekos, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Alfred State College and a past recipient of the union’s Nina Mitchell Award for Distinguished Service, was recently appointed by the governor to the Alfred State College Council. Council members serve without salary as an advisory group to the college president on issues ranging from regulations on student conduct to review of academic programs.

• Jacob Heller, an associate professor and chair of the sociology department at  SUNY?Old Westbury, has published The Vaccine Narrative (Vanderbilt University Press, July 2008), which looks at the controversial issue of child vaccines. The 214-page book examines four cases that span the 20th century: diphtheria, rubella, pertussis and HIV/AIDS, and how the values attributed to vaccines influence their development and use.

• Wendy Mitteager, an assistant professor of geography at SUNY Oneonta, recently received the 2008 Ashok Kumar Malhotra Seva (Compassionate Service) Faculty Award. The award recognizes a faculty member who performs community service, motivates others to do so, and integrates community service into the teaching and learning process. The $1,000 award was established through the college foundation by UUPer Ashok Malhotra, a distinguished teaching professor who has taught at the college since 1967.

— Karen L. Mattison