29 Stony Brook University Faculty and Staff Earn SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Twenty-nine Stony Brook University faculty and staff have been honored with 2025-2026 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.

The Chancellor's Awards for Excellence are system-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

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

Excellence in Adjunct Teaching

Jay Mendelson, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering

Excellence in Faculty Service

Julia Bear, Interim Dean & Professor, College of Business
Nicholas Eaton, Professor, Psychology
Deborah Zelizer, Chair and Clinical Associate Professor, Health Sciences, School of Health Professions

Excellence in Librarianship

Sunny Chung, Senior Assistant Librarian, Health Sciences Library
Kimberly Kennedy, Director of Content Management, University Libraries

Excellence in Professional Service

Kim Berlin, Enterprise Data and Analytics
Carla Caglioti, Department of Creative Writing, Film and Television
Rosalia Davi, Center for Inclusive Education
Cathrine Duffy, Healthier U
Jude Eleanor Elizenda Mondesir, Financial Planning and Analysis
Shannon Jayne, Academic Success and Tutoring Center
Adelaide Kuzmack, Office of Financial Aid
Christopher Paparo, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Emily Snyder, Department of Student Community Development

Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities

Marie A. Badalamente, Orthopaedics
Jie Gao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Levy, Department of Sociology
Amy Marschilok, Department of Chemistry
Dominik Schneble, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Excellence in Teaching

Alan Calder, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dale Drueckhammer, Department of Chemistry
Angela Kokkosis, Department of Surgery
Elizabeth Kotseas, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
Sara Lipton, Department of History
Thomas Mangano, Department of English
Benjamin Martin, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Anurag Purwar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Michelle Whittaker, Department of Writing and Rhetoric