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Every year, the state university and numerous academic and professional organizations honor hundreds of UUP members for their excellence.
The Voice is pleased to recognize some of these members here.
- Sharon Danoff-Burg, a psychology professor at SUNY Albany, received both the 2008 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Danoff-Burg has been teaching at UAlbany since 1999. She is currently the psychology’s department’s director of graduate studies, and she has served on 20 doctoral dissertation committees and 23 master’s thesis committees. In addition, Danoff-Burg has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and eight book chapters. She is also co-author of an instructor’s manual for a commonly used textbook in abnormal psychology.
- Hassaram Bakhru, director of UAlbany’s Ion Beam Laboratories and chair of the Faculty Council in the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, recently received the Collins Fellow Award. The award
recognizes outstanding service to the institution. Bakhru has taught more than 160 courses since coming to Albany in 1970. He also has an
extensive record of publications
and awards.
• Ho Hun Leung, an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Oneonta and chair of the Steering Committee of the Center for Social Science Research, received the college’s 2008 Susan Sutton Smith Award. The award was established in 1998 by the parents of the late Susan Sutton Smith, an Oneonta English professor. It honors exceptional faculty achievement in research, scholarship or art.
• UUP delegate Roger Drumm, an associate professor in the building trades department at SUNY Alfred, earned the Alfred Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award. Drumm was nominated by students from Alfred for his major influence on them, and helping them achieve their educational goals. Drumm has been a SUNY Alfred faculty member since 1984, and he has an associate degree in occupational studies from Alfred.
— Julia Patane