FACULTY EXCELLENCE SCHOLARS, LEADERS & TEACHERS SUNY takes pride in its diversity of leading teachers and scholars who advance the frontiers of knowledge, discovery and innovation. SUNY faculty members include Nobel Prize winners, Dirac and Fields medalists, winners of MacArthur “Genius” grants and the National Medal of and members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. SUNY also has many Pulitzer Prize, Truman Scholars, and Grammy, Emmy and Tony winning faculty. SUNY faculty members are highly regarded experts in their fields and inspiring teachers who change lives. Award Winning SUNY Faculty: • Dr. CN Yang 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics (Stony Brook) • Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (UB) • Dr. Robert F. Furchgott 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine (Donwnstate Medical Center) • Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine (Stony Brook) • Dr. John Milnor Fields Medalist (Mathematics) (Stony Brook) • Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Dirac Medal (Physics) (Stony Brook) • Lydia Davis 2003 MacArthur Fellow, (U Albany) • Carl Dennis 2003 Pulitzer (poetry), (UB) EMPIRE INNOVATION PROGRAM DRIVES DISCOVERY The Empire Innovation Program is bringing some of the country’s most talented faculty researchers to SUNY campuses. Empire Innovation adds leading-edge intellectual talent to the research campuses, supporting increased innovation and more competitive professional and graduate education programs. Increasing important research at SUNY’s university centers and doctoral campuses also boosts economic development in New York state. These top-flight faculty researchers are driving 21st century innovation and discovery and raising SUNY’s national—and international profile. Continued investment in this forward-looking program will attract renowned researchers who will develop SUNY into a national research leader. CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERTS CONTRIBUTE TO NOBEL-WINNING WORK Three faculty members at Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Science were recognized for their contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore for efforts to control global warming. FACULTY MEMBER SPEARHEADS BIOTECH RESEARCH ENTERPRISE Eva Brown Cramer has had a profound impact on SUNY Downstate Medical Center and its surrounding community. Through her professor of anatomy & cell biology and vice president for biotechnology and scientific affairs has helped to establish SUNY as a leader in New York City’s emerging biotechnology industry. Cramer expects Downstate’s Biotechnology Initiative to create more than 1,000 new jobs in a growing high-technology industry. She also anticipates the growth of new positions in support services and biotechnology-related fields. Biotechnology is reported to have a 15x multiplier in the creation of supporting and secondary jobs. UB’S PRASAD NAMED ONE OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’S 50 Paras N. Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named one of the Scientific American 50, the prestigious magazine's annual list of "outstanding of leadership in science and technology from the past year." Prasad was selected for his research using customized nanoparticles developed by im and his colleagues to achieve gene therapy, avoiding the need to rely on potentially toxic viruses as vectors. $1.4 MILLION NASA GRANT TO STONY BROOK Stony Brook University Medical Center researcher Kanokporn (Noy) Rithidech, Associate Professor of Research Pathology, received a four-year $1.4 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to con-duct research that is designed to gain the possible cancer risks encountered by astronauts when they are exposed to space radiation. Rithidech uses a novel method to map genetic changes in laboratory animals after exposure to protons and analyzes the dose-rate effect of protons and their link to cancer. The study runs through fall 2011. THE DAWN OF THE ‘NANO-BIO’ PLASTIC AGE Imagine nano-viruses that can find and combat cancer: Molecular-sized sensors that will detect chemicals and toxins in the air and tiny cooling chips that can replace compressors in cars, refrigerators and air conditioners. Nanotechnology experts claim the scientific know-how to construct devices such as these will be known in as little as 10 years. But in order for them to have the widespread adoption needed to truly revolutionize lives, they have to be made affordably. Anand Gadre, assistant professor of nanobioscience at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany, a highly regarded expert in poly-meric bio-MEMS, or micro-electro-mechani-cal systems, made of plastic materials for biological applications. RESEARCH CENTERS: ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE The Centers of Excellence are catalysts in shaping New York state’s science and tech-nology landscape for the 21st century. New unprecedented support for high-tech development over the establish the centers, four of which are based on SUNY campuses. The SUNY-based Centers of Excellence in nanoelectronics, photonics, bioinformatics and information technology and environmental systems represent a comprehensive and integrated nanotechnology commercialization powerhouse. With government, business and industrial partners, SUNY faculty researchers advance knowledge, discovery innovation that will translate into solutions to today’s challenges in health care, manufacturing, safety and security and information technology. TRAINING TO MEET CRITICAL WORKFORCE NEEDS Economic growth expected throughout New York will not be limited to jobs in high tech. There will be important new opportunities in the service sector from health care, to edu cation, to gerontology and SUNY is creating programs that will train professionals to meet those needs, Keeping New York’s college graduates in the state ensures a renewable and vibrant workforce. EXPANDING RURAL ACCESS TO DENTAL CARE The League for Innovation in the Community College awarded its 2007 Innovation of the Year Award to Monroe Community College’s Dental Hygiene Project.” In partner ship with Jamestown and Jefferson commu nity colleges, the project is designed to alleviate shortages of dental hygienists in rural counties. Online lectures and course content are offered via SUNY Learning Network. In each of the communities, clinical instruction is conducted by MCC faculty. SOLUTIONS FOR THE AGING SUNY Brockport’s Center for Excellence in Gerontologic Social Work is addressing the shortage in professionals who can meet the complex care needs of older adults and their families. The center provides training social work faculty, students and with a focus on effective competent client centered interven tions. Established in 2005 Geriatric Education Center, the center provides faculty and student education through training, curricular enrichment, and outreach to social work providers and faculty in the surrounding region.