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11 receive Chancellor’s Awards
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Carol Brewer
Candace Carroll
Paul DesJardin
Matthew Dryer
Michael Farrell
Lucille Kierejewski
Myung Mi Kim
Amy Loucks-DiMatteo
Dimitrios Pados
Angela Reibel
Dinesh Sukumaran
Six faculty members, two professional staff members and three classified staff members have received 2009 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities recognizes the work of those who engage actively in scholarly and creative pursuits beyond their teaching responsibilities. Recipients are Carol S. Brewer, professor in the School of Nursing; Matthew Dryer, professor in the Department of Linguistics, CAS; and Myung Mi Kim, professor of English and director of the Poetics Program in the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching honors those who consistently demonstrate superb teaching at the undergraduate, graduate or professional level. Recipients are Paul E. DesJardin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Michael P. Farrell, professor in the Department of Sociology and associate dean for graduate education, CAS; and Dimitrios A. Pados, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, SEAS.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service honors professional staff performance excellence "both within and beyond the position." Recipients are Amy Loucks-DiMatteo, supervising programmer and analyst, University Libraries, and Dinesh Sukumaran, director of the Magnetic Resonance Center in the Department of Chemistry, CAS.
Awarded for the first time this year, the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Classified Service recognize classified staff who have consistently demonstrated superlative performance within and beyond their position. Recipients are Candace Carroll, secretary II, CAS; Lucille H. Kierejewski, administrative assistant, School of Management; and Angela Reibel, secretary II, Office of the Vice President for Human Resources.
Carol Brewer specializes in the nursing workforce and the chronic nursing shortage in the United States. Her work on this topic has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
A UB faculty member since 1994, she also serves as director of nursing for the New York State Area Health Education Center System Statewide Office, developing nursing policy and nursing and health care workforce development programs. She is also serving as the Steering Committee Chair for the Institute for Nursing, a New York State nursing workforce center.
She has received numerous honors and awards, including the Foundation of New York State Nurses Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award and a UB Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achievement Award. She also has been a member of several federal review boards.
She received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Denison University, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Trenton State College, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Tennessee, and a master’s degree in applied economics and a Ph.D. in nursing systems, both from the University of Michigan.
Candace Carroll joined UB in 1996 as a secretary in the Dean’s Office for the former Faculty of Social Sciences. She currently serves as the secretary for the associate deans for personnel and for resource management in the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office. She previously worked at SUNY Empire State College’s Buffalo office.
A graduate of Villa Maria Academy, she earned a computer science certificate in the LEAP Program for Career Development.
A UB faculty member since 2002, Paul E. DesJardin previously was a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. His expertise includes computational fluid dynamics, multiphase reacting flows, fire and combustion, and fluid-structure interaction. His research is funded by nearly $2 million from such sources as Sandia National Laboratories, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.
The recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and two Sandia National Laboratories Awards for Excellence, his research has been published in more than 20 scholarly publications.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from UB and master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
A UB faculty member since 1989, Matthew S. Dryer’s primary research interests are in typology, syntax and language documentation. He is one of four co-editors of the “World Atlas of Language Structures,” a typological atlas published by Oxford University Press in 2005.
Dryer is the recipient of a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and has been working with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on a worldwide database of language structures.
He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Michigan.
Michael Farrell joined the UB faculty in 1968 as an assistant professor, earning the rank of full professor in 1998. He has held a variety of administrative posts, including department chair, director of graduate studies, director of the Faculty of Social Sciences Interaction Laboratory and director of the College of Arts and Sciences Survey Research Lab. He has been a senior research associate in UB’s Research Institute on Addictions since 1987.
His research involves the sociology of the family, small groups, friendship groups and adolescence. He is the author or co-author of three books, nearly 50 articles in scholarly journals and more than 20 book chapters.
He earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from Yale University, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard.
Lucille Kierejewski began her career at UB in 1986 in Undergraduate Admissions and subsequently moved to the School of Management, where she’s held a variety of positions in the school’s offices of Graduate Programs, Enrollment and Planning, Planning and Budget. She currently she serves as an administrative assistant for the associate dean in the School of Management Dean’s Office and supports the senior assistant dean for external relations as well.
In addition to clerical duties involving the school’s course schedule, she is primary point person for Community Access, a program offered by the school in partnership with the United Way through which non-profit agencies access the school’s technology and faculty advice to record educational and training program.
She received the UB Star Award in 2003 as part of the team that launched the “UB This Summer” initiative.
A Korean-born American poet, Myung Mi Kim is the author of five books of poetry, most recently "Commons" (University of California Press, 2002). She has published in major poetry journals and her work has been anthologized widely. She is the recipient of two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry and several awards from the Fund for Poetry. Her first book of poetry, “Under Flag,” won the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Exchange Award of Merit.
She was professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University until joining the UB faculty in 2002. She became director of the Poetics Program in 2007. Her academic interests include 20th-century American poetry and poetics, the “objectivists,” post-war innovative practices by women poets and translingual/transcultural poetics
As manager of library network support in the UB Libraries, Amy Loucks-DiMatteo has played a key role in the transition of UB’s library network to a primarily online environment. She oversees personal computing resources and operations, as well as the server network for the entire UB Libraries, and supervises an extensive staff engaged in technical support, IT maintenance and network services.
A member of the professional staff for more than two decades, she has received numerous unit and campus awards, including four UB Service Excellence Awards and two Bright Ideas awards from the UB Libraries.
She holds a B.A. in communications and an M.L.S., both from UB.
Dimitrios Pados joined the UB faculty in 1997 as an assistant professor after holding the same position at the University of Southwest Louisiana. His research interests include communications and multiuser systems, adaptive antenna and radar arrays, and neural networks. His work is funded by the NSF, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Research Laboratory and Boeing Corp.
He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.
He received a diploma in computer science and engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
Born in Italy, Angela Reibel was raised in Canada and is now a permanent resident of the U.S. She has worked at UB since 1996 in the Office of the President and University Human Resources. She currently staffs the Office of Employee Relations and is responsible for receiving and processing all grievances, disciplinary actions, improper practice charges, information requests, subpoenas, EEOC complaints, Division of Human Rights complaints, and other employee relations matters.
A New York State notary, she also serves as campus liaison for the financial disclosure filing of academic and professional employees and the New York State Commission on Public Integrity.
She attended UB through Millard Fillmore College.
As the director of the Magnetic Resonance Center at UB, Dinesh Sukumaran supports all UB faculty, staff and students—as well as others at collaborating institutions and corporate partners in the region—who employ NMR spectroscopy in their research. He played an instrumental role as liaison between UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, where he has helped to implement new NMR spectrometers and arrange for UB researchers to access these resources.
A former Fulbright Fellow and Max Planck Fellow, who holds a doctorate in chemistry from UB, Sukumaran regularly leads NMR courses and instructs chemistry, physiology and biophysics students in the use of the technology.
His research has received significant federal grant support; he has more than 45 scholarly publications to his credit, is a co-holder of a patent for NMR technology and recently applied for two more patents.
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