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

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.

• Nichole Preston, an instructional support associate in Physical and Health Sciences at Alfred State, was among five faculty and staff to receive the college’s Pioneer Award, which recognizes people who demonstrate a commitment to the mission and goals of the college, have a positive impact on the college, and provide a high level of performance. Recipients receive a cash award of $225.

• Gerhard Falk, a professor of sociology at Buffalo State, recently authored his 19th book, The American Criminal Justice System: How It Works, How It Doesn’t and How to Fix It (Prager-Greenwood, 2010), which offers a critical analysis of the criminal justice system.

He is the author of similar hard-hitting research, including fraud among scientists, writers, academics and philanthropists, and about improper patient care and the failures within the medical profession.

Falk is a 2006 recipient of a research and scholarship award from SUNY’s Research Foundation and a 2004 President’s Award for excellence in research, scholarship and creativity.

• Bahgat Sammakia, a professor of mechanical engineering at Binghamton University, recently earned the 2010 ITherm Achievement Award in honor of his contributions to electronics, thermal and thermomechanical research, as well as his service to the electronics thermal management community. He received the award during the 12th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems.

He holds 14 U.S. patents and has published more than 150 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

— Karen L. Mattison

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.

• Cheryl Doble, an associate professor in the department of landscape architecture at Environmental Science & Forestry, recently received the ESF Public/Community Service Award. The award is given annually to an employee whose outreach activities to the public represent the college and its mission in a positive fashion and whose volunteer service to the community enhances life for others.

Doble is director of the Center for Community Design Research, which helps communities learn how to plan and manage sustainable futures.

• Erik Hage, an associate professor of journalism and communications at SUNY Cobleskill, is the author of Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion (McFarland & Co.), released April 5.

The book offers a comprehensive understanding of the body of literary work by the reclusive McCarthy, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for his novel The Road.

Hage is an award-winning journalist and author of several novels and popular reference books. Go to http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/ for publication information.

• Joseph Williams, collection development and acquisitions librarian at SUNY Maritime, and Hofstra University’s David Woolwine co-authored a chapter in Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion (Libraries Unlimited) published earlier this year.

The article, “The Use of Grounded Theory in Interlibrary Loan Research: Compliance Always Occurs,” discusses the qualitative research methodology used in the social sciences as it applies to interlibrary loan practices at various institutions, through the use of a practices survey.

The study represents the preliminary research to a more comprehensive study of interlibrary loan practices and the effects of the acquisition of electronic databases.

Go to http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320193397 for publication information.

— Karen L. Mattison

Each year, SUNY and numerous academic and professional groups honor hundreds of UUPers for accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in communities. The Voice is pleased to recognize three of these members.

• Axel Fair-Schulz, an assistant professor of history at Potsdam, recently published Loyal Subversions: East Germany and its Bildungsbürgerlich Marxist Intellectuals (Berlin: Trafo Verlag, 2009), which analyzes why and how certain intellectuals have shaped the society and culture of the former German Democratic Republic.

Among his publications are book reviews on East Germany, and he has contributed several book chapters and scholarly articles on German refugee intellectuals and historians.

• Jennifer Rogalsky, an associate professor of geography at Geneseo, is spending this semester as a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, where she is teaching and conducting research on how women cope in the informal economy in urban markets.

Her trip is part of a new collaborative partnership between Geneseo and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, where she will teach “gender and development” in the geography and rural development department. The head of that department and vice dean of the faculty of social science at KNUST, Eva Tagoe-Darko, received a Fulbright grant for the entire academic year and is teaching and conducting research in Geneseo’s geography department.

• Potsdam librarian Jane Subramanian has been honored as one of two winners of the Music Library Association’s national competition titled “Best of Chapters,” with winners presenting their papers at a national final session. Subramanian is presenting her work, “The Norwood Brass Firemen Band’s Strong Beat Since the 1870s,” this month in San Diego.

The competition was created to honor presenters at chapter conferences for their excellent research and to allow a broader sharing of that valuable work.

— Karen L. Mattison

Each year, SUNY and numerous academic and professional groups honor hundreds of UUP members for outstanding accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in their communities. The Voice is pleased to recognize three of these members.

• Eva Feder Kittay of Stony Brook University has been granted the rank of distinguished professor of philosophy. The distinguished professor designation is conferred on individuals who have achieved national or international prominence in a chosen field.

Kittay’s scholarly work ranges from metaphor to care ethics to feminism. Her book, Love’s Labor, creates an entire area of philosophical inquiry into disability, and most particularly cognitive disability.

Her contributions to disability studies and care ethics earned her the first-ever award given by the Institut Mensche, Ethik, und Wissenshaft, a bioethics and policy institute that has strong influence within the German government.

• Catherine Porter, a professor emerita of French at SUNY Cortland, was elected in December 2009 as president of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), an international organization serving English and foreign language teachers.

An internationally recognized translator of scholarly works, Porter has been a reviewer of texts and translations for several university presses and reviewed translation grant proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has also translated 35 books.

• Linda Spear, a distinguished professor of psychology at Binghamton University, has been named to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

The 15-member council oversees and approves the entire portfolio of research for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The group decides on priority research areas and future funding for alcohol-related research throughout the United States.

Since 2004, Spear has served on the NIAAA’s Extramural Advisory Board, a board of alcohol experts charged with reviewing the entire research portfolio of the institute and recommending future research opportunities to the council. She will continue in that position as well.

— Karen L. Mattison

Every year, the 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 two of these members here.

• Robert Dushay, an associate professor of social science at SUNY Morrisville, recently received the Morrisville State College Distinguished Faculty Award. The award honors faculty who displays professional growth, personal and professional achievement, and exemplary service to the college.
• Claire Meirowitz of SUNY Old Westbury has been named the 2009 Communicator of the Year by the Long Island chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. She is principal of Professional Editing Services, which produces materials for nationwide client base, including Microsoft and Forbes. She is also the e-list moderator for UUP’s retiree contingent.

Meirowitz and her business partner have written The Truth About Business Writing that Works, to be published this year by Pearson/Financial Times Press.

— Karen L. Mattison

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.

• Nancy Cannon, an academic delegate and reference librarian at SUNY Oneonta, recently received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship. The award recognizes librarianship skill, professional growth and achievement, and excellent service to the college.

• Karl Grossman, a professor of journalism at SUNY Old Westbury, recently received the Environmental Stewardship Award from the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Grossman is the author of six books, including Cover Up: What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power (Permanent Press) and is host of the nationally aired TV program Enviro Close-Up.

• Malcolm Nelson, a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at SUNY Fredonia, recently received an IPPY Gold Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association for his travel essay TWENTY WEST: The Great Road Across America (SUNY Press, May 2008), which tells the many tales of America that occur along or near US Route 20.

IPPY awards are open to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books in English and intended for the North American market.

• Gary Scott, a professor and chair of the department of paper and bioprocess engineering at Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, was recently named to the Technical

Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) Board of Directors. It is a volunteer position.

Scott, who has worked in the paper industry for more than 25 years and has been on the ESF faculty since 1998, will serve a three-year term on the TAPPI board.

TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging and converting industries.

— Karen L. Mattison