Honoring SUNY and UB Award Recipients

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The Office for Faculty Affairs oversees the nomination of outstanding faculty for a host of SUNY and UB awards that recognize excellence in teaching, research, creative activity, and service.

Below we feature our most recent recipients, all of whom have brought distinction to the university and to their departments. We applaud these faculty and all UB faculty for their ongoing pursuit of excellence.

UB and SUNY Award Recipients Through the Years See More Past UB Award Recipients

SUNY Award Recipients

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activity (2023-24)

2024

Liise Kayler

Department of Surgery

Blaine Pfeifer

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Michael Rembis

Department of History

Tarunraj Singh

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Michal Stachowiak

Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences

Chi Zhou

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

2023

Sherry Chemler

Department of Chemistry

Erin Hatton

Department of Sociology

Jennifer Read

Department of Psychology

Wenyao Xu

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Hao Zeng

Department of Physics

Sarah X. Zhang

Department of Opthamology

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2023-24)

2024

Bernard Badzioch

Department of Mathematics

Janice Trigilio Tona

Department of Rehabilitation Science

2023

Archana Mishra

Department of Medicine

Luis Velarde

Department of Chemistry

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service (2023-24)

2024

Jason Benedict

Department of Chemistry

Rachael Hageman Blair

Department of Biostatistics

Xuedong Hu

Department of Physics

2023

Joyce Lacy

Department of Psychology

Kristen Moore

Department of Engineering Education

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship (2023)

Nell Aronoff

Librarian and Liaison to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Past SUNY Award Honorees See More Past SUNY Award Recipients

UB Award Recipients

UB Distinguished Professor (2023-24)

2024

Hanfeng Li

Department of Mathematics

Erik R. Seeman

Department of History

Xin Sarah Zhang

Department of Ophthalmology

2023

Jian Feng

Department of Physiology & Biophysics

Qing Lin

Department of Chemistry

Adnan Siddiqui

Department of Neurosurgery

UB Teaching Innovation Award (2023-24)

2024

Nicholas Bruscia

Department of Architecture

Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller

Department of History

Ziming Zhao

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

2023

Jesse Lee Hartloff

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Lara D. Hutson

Department of Biological Sciences

Alice Nightingale

Department of Engineering Education

Filip Stefanovic

Department of Biomedical Engineering

UB Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award (2023-24)

2024

Nichol Castro

Department of Communicative Disorders & Sciences

Stephen Santa-Ramirez

Department of Educational Leadership & Policy

John Strong

Department of Learning & Instruction

Shaofeng Zou

Department of Electrical Engineering

2023

Katherine N. Balantekin

Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences

David M. Jacobs

Department of Pharmacy

Yotam Ophir

Department of Communication

A. Erdem Sariyuce

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Eric Strobel

Department of Biological Sciences

Hongyue Sun

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Minghui Zheng

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

UB Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement Award (2023-24)

2024

G. Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen

Department of Chemistry

David Herzberg

Department of History

Salvatore Rappoccio

Department of Physics

Jaekyung Lee

Department of Counselling, School & Educational Psychology / Educational Leadership & Policy

Xiuqian Mu

Department of Ophthalmology

Fraser Sim

Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Mostafa Nouh

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Uttam Singisetti

Department of Electrical Engineering

Jun Xia

Department of Biomedical Engineering

2023

Lora Cavuoto

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Paul Cullen

Department of Biological Sciences

David M. Dietz

Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk

Department of Sociology

Linda M. Harris

Department of Surgery

Heidi E. Julien

Department of Information Science

Jonathan Lovell

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Dejan Stojkovic

Department of Physics

Yun Wu

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Past UB Award Honorees See More Past UB Award Recipients

Celebration of Faculty & Staff Excellence

Each Fall, the UB community celebrates the achievements of our faculty and staff in the areas of research, teaching, and service. The Celebration of Faculty and Staff Excellence event includes a welcome by President Satish K. Tripathi, remarks by Provost A. Scott Weber, and an on-stage presentation recognizing awardees in the following categories:

· External awards designated as “prestigious” and “highly prestigious” by the National Research Council

· SUNY Distinguished Professor

· SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence

· UB Distinguished Professor

· 50 and 60 years of service