Faculty kudos
Professor of Mechanical Engineering SB Park received the Excellence in Mechanics Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Sean Choi’s research on paper-based batteries appeared in YahooUK, India Today and USA Today.
Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Tracy Hookway received a Junior Faculty Research Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Assistant Professor Ahyeon Koh won the Early Career Development Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ron Miles was a keynote speaker at the International Design Engineering Technical Conference put together by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Professor of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Hiroki Sayama received an award for Best Paper of the Decade from the International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL).
Associate Professor of Computer Science David Liu received two grants from the National Science Foundation totaling more than $800,000.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Gretchen Mahler received a grant from the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation for her study “Engineering a kidney glomerulus and proximal tubule on a chip.”
Decker School of Nursing Dean Mario Ortiz and Professor Melissa Sutherland ‘97, MS ’01, have been selected as 2018 fellows by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) in recognition of their significant contributions to nursing and healthcare. Fellowship in the AAN is one of the highest honors bestowed in the nursing profession. Ortiz and Sutherland will be inducted during the AAN’s annual policy conference, Transforming Health, Driving Policy, Nov. 1-3 in Washington, D.C.
Professor of Psychology Terry Deak has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Neurotoxicology and Alcohol Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review for the term July 1,2018 to June 30, 2022.
Elizabeth Brown, director of assessment and scholarly communications for Binghamton University libraries, has been named a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association, which is conferred upon mid-career information professionals for their past, present and future service to the organization and the profession.
• Harpur College faculty have received recognition for book publications as follows:
Roberta Strippoli, associate professor of Asian and Asian American studies, for publication of Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess: The Legend of Bio and Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage
Sungdai Cho, associate professor of Asian and Asian American studies, for publication of Curriculum Development and Assessment Guidelines for the National Standards Project
Nahua Sarkar, associate professor of sociology, for editing Work Out of Place
Maria Gillan, professor of English, for publication of Paterson Light and Shadow
Benita Roth, professor of sociology, for publication of The Life and Death of ACT UP.LA: Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s
Sandra Casanova-Vizcaino, assistant professor of Romance languages, for publication of Latin American Gothic in Literature and Film
Elizabeth DiGangi, assistant professor of anthropology, for publication of Forensic Taphonomy and Ecology of North American Scavengers
Karen-edis Barzman, associate professor of art history, for publication of The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
Karin Sauer, professor of biological sciences, for publication of c-di-GMP Signaling: Methods and Protocols
Lisa Tessman, professor of philosophy, for publication of When Doing the Right Thing is Impossible
Nancy Um, professor of art history, for publication of Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee
Nancy Appelbaum, associate professor of history, for publication of DIbujar la nacion: La Comision Corografica en la Colombia del siglo XIX; and for receiving the Ten Best Academic Books Honorable Mention, Marysa Best Book Prize, for Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Solomon Polachek, distinguished professor of economics, for publication of Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets
Rolf Quam, associate professor of anthropology, for publication of Primate Hearing and Communication
Jonathan Karp, associate professor of history and of Judaic studies, for publication of World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformations in Europe, the Middle East, and America; and of The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Early Modern World, 1500-1815
Jaimee Wriston Colbert, professor of English, for publication of Vanishing Acts; and for receiving the CNY 2017 Book Award for Fiction for the same book
Rosemary Arrojo, professor of comparative literature, for publication of Fictional Translators: Rethinking Translation through Literature
• Harpur College faculty have received recognition for major performances or exhibitions as follows:
Daniel Thomas Davis, professor of music theory, for composing Six. Twenty. Outrageous.: An Opera in Three Acts; and Family Secrets: Kith and Kin
NatalijaMijatovic, professor of art and design, for her solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Belgrade, Serbia
Blazo Kovacevic, associate professor of art and design, for his “Incited” exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Belgrade, Serbia and the Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland; and for his “Case” exhibition at the Naval Heritage Collection Museum in Porto Montenegro, Tivat, Montenegro
Hans Gindlesberger, associate professor of art and design, for his “Blank _______ Photographs” exhibition at the University of the Arts Galleries in Philadelphia, Pa.
Laura Hawkes, assistant professor of theatre, for her scenic design for “Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi” at the Utah Opera in Salt Lake City, Utah; and for “Replica” at the Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Texas
Elizabeth Mozer, associate professor of theatre, for her production The Asylum Project at the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre at the Stella Adler Studio in New York City
Ronald Gonzalez, professor of art and design, for his exhibitions “Figures,” in Oneonta, N.Y.; “The Mask,” in Rome, Italy; “Stimulas,” in Berlin, Germany, and London, England; “Littletopia,” at the L.A. Modern and Contemporary International Art Fair in Los Angeles, Calif., and the Miami International Art Fair in Miami, Fla.; and “Nostalgia,” in London, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Timosoara, Romania, and Athens, Greece
Hong Zhang, senior instructor for Asian and Asian American studies, for her solo performances at the Universidad de la Habana, in Havana, Cuba; and at the Confucius Institute Headquarters in Las Vegas, Nev.; and for “Teaching Chinese through Song,” at the Beijing Language and Culture Institute in Beijing, China, and San Francisco State University in San Francisco, Calif.
Andrew Horowitz, artist in residence in theatre, for his Galumpha performance at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio
Samuel Elikem Nyamuame, visiting assistant professor of theatre and Africana studies, for his performances of The African Warrior at the United Nations Cultural Heritage Festival in Shanghai, China; and Performing Our Pride, The Ewe Culture, at the Council of Ewe Association of North America in Tarrytown, N.Y.
• Harpur College faculty have received recognition for major grants as follows:
Pejor Aynajian, assistant professor of physics, for his grant, Visualizing Emergent Electronic States Near Quantum Phase Transitions, from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Karin Sauer, professor of biological sciences, for Pyruvate Depletion a Adjunctive Therapy for the Treatment of Biofilm-Related Infections, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Samuel Elikem Nyamuame, visiting assistant professor of theatre and Africana studies, for Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa, from the German Academic Exchange
Laura Musselman, assistant professor of biological sciences, for Laboratory selection for Drosophila melanogaster genetic variants that confer increased survival on a diabetogenic diet, from the NIH
Louis Piper, associate professor of physics and of materials science and engineering, for MURI: Cross-disciplinary Electronic-ionic Research Enabling Biologically Realistic Autonomous Learning (CEREBRAL), from the Department of Defense
Dina Danon, assistant professor of Judaic studies, for Negotiating Modernity: The Marketplace of Matchmaking, Marriage, and Divorce in the Ottoman Sephardi World
Matthew Vetticatt, assistant professor of chemistry, for Novel Concepts and Mechanistic Probes in Catalysis from the NIH
Sungdai Cho, associate professor of Asian and Asian American studies, for KOrean at the Nexus of the Northeast Asian Linguistic Area from the Academy of Korean Studies
Jessie Reeder, assistant professor of English, for Field Development Grant: Digitizing 19th-Century British-Chilean News Archives from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Qiusheng Wu, assistant professor of geography, for AI for Earth: Wetland Mapping and Monitoring Using Geospatial Big Data and Deep Learning from the Microsoft Corporation
Jennifer Stoever, associate professor of English, for a Public Engagement Planning Grant: Binghamton Historial Soundwalk from the Whiting Foundation
Pamela Smart, associate professor of art history and anthropology; Gokhan Ersan, assistant professor of art and design; and Hilary Becker, assistant professor of classical and near eastern studies; for a Humanities Connection Grant: Materials Matter, from the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Harpur College faculty have received recognition for professional leadership as follows:
John Starks, associate professor of classical and near eastern studies, for being elected president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States
Lior Libman, assistant professor of Judaic studies, for being elected an executive committee member of the European Association of Israel Studies
• Harpur College faculty have received national/international recognition as follows:
Qiusheng Wu, assistant professor of geography, for the Publons Peer Review Award for being in the top 1 percent of peer reviewers in Multisiciplinary
• Harpur College faculty have earned patents as follows:
Alistair Lees, professor of chemistry, for Selective Optical Aqueous Anion Detection
Susan Bane, professor of chemistry, for Rapid and Efficient Bioorthogonal Ligation Reaction and Boron-Containing Heterocycles Useful in Conjunction Therewith