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

• Buffalo State’s Ann Colley was recently appointed to the rank of distinguished professor in recognition of her work as a leading scholar of the Victorian period. Colley is also the sole author of five highly acclaimed books published in the U.S. and abroad.

A Senior Fulbright Scholar in Poland and the Ukraine, Colley has a long list of accomplishments, including an invitation to write a scholarly review of all 19th century studies published in 2007-2008 for Studies in English Literature.

• SUNYIT’s Joanne Joseph, an associate professor of psychology, and Patricia Murphy, an assistant professor of social sciences and humanities, have co-authored Voices of Resilience: Breast Cancer Survivor Narratives from the Mohawk Valley, which is being used to help newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.

Funded by a grant from Golfing for Breast Cancer and accomplished with the help of students, Voices of Resilience is one of a number of service-based learning and community based research projects at SUNYIT.

• Anne Panning, a professor of English at SUNY Brockport and co-director of the Brockport Writers Forum, was named 2009 New York Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The award recognizes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country.

Panning is the author of Super America: Stories and a Novella, which received both the 2009 Lillian Fairchild Award for a Rochester-area resident who has produced the best literary work during the past year, and the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

— Karen L. Mattison