Two SUNY Geneseo UUP members and a third from SUNY Oneonta have received distinguished professorships from the SUNY Board of Trustees, a ranking conferred for consistent extraordinary accomplishment.

Mary Ellen Zuckerman, a professor in the School of Business at Geneseo, was named a distinguished service professor. Olympia Nicodemi, a professor of mathematics at Geneseo, and James Ebert, chair of the earth sciences department at Oneonta, were named distinguished teaching professors.

Zuckerman has been a Geneseo faculty member since 1985 and served for nearly a decade as dean of the School of Business. She has written extensively on the development of the magazine industry, the history of the marketing research and advertising industries, and gender and media. She earned a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service in 2006.

Nicodemi has earned numerous awards since her arrival at Geneseo in 1981, including a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994. In 2003, she earned two prestigious awards from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA): the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the MAA’s Seaway Section.

Ebert, a member of the Oneonta faculty since 1985, is extensively involved in earth science education and the preparation of pre-service teachers. In 2007, he received a grant from the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies to develop a graduate course at Oneonta specifically designed for earth science teachers. Ebert received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993.

— Karen L. Mattison