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Departmental Awards of
Distinction in 2010
Suzanne Baldwin received the Chancellor’s Citation
for Academic
Excellence in a
ceremony last
April. Suzanne
was recognized
for both teaching
and research
excellence in the
geosciences and
Suzanne Baldwin (l) receiving the
Chancellor’s Citation from Chancellor
Nancy Cantor (r).
for her devotion
to encouraging
and supporting
women to
enter and achieve success in science. Among her
high-profile projects in this area of science, she is
the lead principal investigator for an international
group of collaborators and a research team at SU
working with a $3.5 million grant from the National
Science Foundation Continental Dynamics Program.
The collaborative project involves four other leading
U.S. institutions and several leading international
scientists investigating major tectonic processes in
eastern Papua New Guinea using the region as a field
laboratory to examine the rheological, petrological
and thermal evolution of the lithosphere during the
transition from subduction to rifting and seafloor
spreading. This year Suzanne was one of only six to
receive this prestigious award.
Carlos Dengo – BS ’76 was awarded the Alexander
Winchell Award
at a seminar that
was held in the
Department of Earth
Sciences on October
29, 2009. Dr. Dengo
is the Geoscience
Vice President
of ExxonMobil
Upstream Research
Company. We, in the
Department, look
Dr. Jeffrey Karson presenting Dr.
Carlos Dengo the 2009 Alexander
Wincell Alumni Award.
forward to Carlos’
return to campus this
fall for the 2010 Fall
Reunion Weekend when the John J. Prucha PhD,
Earth Sciences Endowed Fund is formally presented
to the Department.
M. E. (Pat) Bickford was honored by his Alma
Mater, receiving
the Alumni
Achievement
Award from the
Department of
Geology at the
University of
Illinois, where he
received his MS
(‘58) and Ph.D.
(‘60) degrees.
Linda Ivany received the American Federation of
Mineralogy Societies Scholarship Foundation 2010
Honorary Award for Distinguished Achievement in
the Field of Earth Sciences at the recent convention
of the Eastern Federation of Mineralogical and
Lapidary Societies, The award includes 2 EFMLS
Scholarships of $2000/year normally for 2 years for
the recipient’s Department. Linda and the Department
were pleased to present these scholarships to Kwasi
Gilbert and Jack Hietpas. Congratulations to Linda,
Kwasi and Jack!
Donald I. Siegel was honored by being named the
Laura J. and L.
Douglas Meredith
Professor. This
distinguished
three-year
appointment
beginning Fall
2010 recognizes
(l-r)Vice Chancellor Eric Spina, Don
Siegel, and Chancellor Nancy Cantor at
the Meredith Ceremony.
Pat (r) receiving his award from Wang-
Ping Chen (l), Head of the Department
of Geology, University of Illinois.
Don’s outstanding
teaching at
Syracuse
University and
comes with a stipend and funding to expand on his
course offerings. Don, as part of his Meredith project,
has expanded his Honor’s course in “World Water”
to include a trip to China for interested students, and
his undergraduate offering this fall will be a general
course in the “Science of Water.” Don, also through
his Meredith efforts, formally linked his graduate
course in “Contaminant Hydrogeology” with the
Syracuse Law School trial practice class offered by
the Federal District Attorney for Central New York. In
this class, his science students provide environmental
expert testimony in an authentic jury trial situation.