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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Two faculty and a staff member from the SUNY College at Oneonta have been
named as recipients of the 2007 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
Professor
David Manes of the Department of
Mathematics, Computer
Science and Statistics will receive the Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Teaching. Assistant Professor
Orlando
Legname of the Music
Department will receive the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Scholarship and Creative Activities. Director of Admissions
Karen
Brown will receive the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional
Service.
A member of the SUNY-Oneonta faculty since 1965, Professor Manes
holds a bachelor's degree from Washington and Jefferson College, a
master's from Florida State University, and a doctorate from Penn State.
He was selected as the 2001 winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award
of the Mathematical Association of America Seaway Section and as a
nominee for the national Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for
Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. His
teaching and research interests include combinatorics, number theory,
field theory and polynomials, and group theory and generalizations.
A member of the College at Oneonta faculty since 2000, Orlando
Legname holds a doctorate in composition from the University of
Maryland. A composer, conductor, and theorist, he taught previously at
the State University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the University of Maryland,
and New York University. He has also served as assistant conductor of
the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble. In 2003, Dr. Legname was honored
with the College's annual Award for Innovative Uses of Instructional
Technology. In 2006, he was named the recipient of a faculty fellowship
from the College's Teaching Learning and Technology Center.
Karen Brown holds a bachelor's degree in business economics from
SUNY-Oneonta and a master's in higher education administration from New
York University. A member of the College's professional staff since
1992, she worked as assistant, associate, and interim Director of
Admissions before being appointed to her current position in 2000. She
played a key role in developing the undergraduate admissions initiatives
that have helped to establish SUNY-Oneonta as a highly selective
college. Karen Brown has held leadership positions in SUNY, state, and
national organizations for admissions professionals.
The SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence will be presented at the
College's Commencement on Saturday, May 19.
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