SUNY College at Old Westbury demonstrated its excellence through our students and professors this academic year.
Students that received awards and recognition for their outstanding work included:
• Psychology major senior April Davis was presented with a 2007 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence by SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan.
• Senior Louis Caruso was rewarded with honorable mention during the Long Island College Art Competition Reception at Stony Brook University. Mr. Caruso is a Visual Arts major who was recognized for his painted wooden sculpture of a stool whose legs are melting into a pool of liquid.
• Graduating senior Laura DiBari will end her college career by earning the Old Westbury President's Medal for Scholarship which is the College's highest student honor.
SUNY Old Westbury professors that received awards and made news included:
• Dr. Judith Walsh, chair of the History and Philosophy Department, was one of only 30 faculty members across SUNY that was presented a Research and Scholarship Award by The Research Foundation of the State University of New York.
• Dr. George Stefano, distinguished teaching professor of biological sciences, was named chair of the new Committee on Research by the board of trustees of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Dr. Stefano was also named the senior consultant by a Chinese association on human health issues organized by the Chinese Ministry of Health.
• Dr. Henry Teoh, distinguished service professor in the Chemistry and Physics Department, was one of 14 recipients of the inaugural "Education Partner Award".
• Professor Elizabeth Ewen, distinguished teaching professor of the American Studies Department, received many high reviews from critics on the book Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality in most major book stores. Professor Ewen co-wrote the book with her husband, Stuart Ewen.
• Professor Karl Grossman, Media and Communications program within the American Studies Department, delivered a presentation at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico concerning Native Americans and the nuclear fuel cycle.
• Dr. Johg Pil Lee, distinguished service professor of Mathematics, Computers & Information Science, was one of the inaugural inductees into the new Long Island Mathematics Educators Hall of Fame.
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