2022-23 Recipients of the SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence

May 23, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. These awards are system-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence. These system-level honors underscore SUNY’s commitment to sustaining intellectual vibrancy, advancing the boundaries of knowledge, providing the highest quality of instruction and service, and serving the public good.

Through these awards, SUNY recognizes and publicly proclaims its pride in the accomplishment and personal dedication of its instructional faculty, librarians, professional staff, and classified staff across its campuses. The awards provide SUNY-wide recognition in six categories: Teaching; Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities; Professional Service; Librarianship; Faculty Service; and Classified Service.

Individuals selected for this recognition are SUNY’s community role models in their respective areas of endeavor. In acknowledgement of their selection, recipients receive a letter and certificate signed by the chancellor, and a commemorative medallion. The 2022-2023 recipients of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in the respective categories are:

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Teaching:

  • Mark Hughes – Department of Accounting and Law, School of Business
  • Maeve Kane – Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Research and Creative Activities:

  • Yiming Ying – Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Mathias Vuille – Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rabi Ann Musah – Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Professional Service:

  • Aaron McCloskey – Human Resources Management, Division of Finance & Administration
  • Brian Stephenson – Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Librarianship:

  • Gregory Wiedeman – University Libraries, Division of Academic Affairs

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Faculty Service:

  • Karen Reinhold – Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sheila Curran Bernard – Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Classified Service:

  • Erik Dubb – Facilities Management/Physical Plant, Division of Finance & Administration
  • James Hardy – Facilities Management/Physical Plant, Division of Finance & Administration
  • Richard Sargent – Student Financial Services, Division of Student Affairs

On Friday, September 15th at 3:00PM, there will be a reception held in the University Art Museum to honor the 2023 awardees. At this ceremony, we will also recognize the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 awardees since we did not have celebratory gatherings for them due to pandemic restrictions. As a reminder, here is the list of the 2021 and 2022 recipients of the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in the respective categories:

2020-2021

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Teaching:

  • Andrea Kordzek, School of Criminal Justice
  • Christopher Pastore, Department of History

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Research and Creative Activities:

  • Dolores Cimini, Center for Behavioral Health Promotion and Applied Research
  • Christine Wagner, Department of Psychology

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Professional Service:

  • Noelle Angelozzi, Budget and Financial Management
  • Brad Bunzey, Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Management
  • Jason Jones, Parking and Mass Transit Services
  • Mary Kay Scrabalak, Educational Opportunity Program
  • Barbara Zampella, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Science

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Librarianship:

  • Rebecca Nous, University Libraries

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Faculty Service:

  • Joette Sefl-Mabry, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity

2021-2022

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Teaching:

  • Carmen Serrano, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Samantha Friedman, Department of Sociology

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Professional Service:

  • Leandra Harris, Residential Life
  • Merissa Mabee, Human Resources Management
  • Tara Evans, Center for International Education and Global Strategies

Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Librarianship:

  • Irina Holden, University Libraries

Please join me in congratulating these UAlbany exemplars of SUNY excellence. We are very  proud of their accomplishments.
 

Sincerely,

Signature of Havidan Rodriguez

Havidán Rodríguez
President