Faculty and staff awards, honors and appointments

Congratulations to the following faculty and staff members for their notable awards, honors, appointments and promotions:

Philip Beechel (Facility Operations) has been promoted to Senior Grounds Worker.

Ann Berkley (Mathematics) has been appointed Lecturer.

Andrew Bruso (Office of Communication & Marketing) has been appointed Writer.

Maria Cathcart (Student Development) has been promoted to Secretary 1.

Jennifer Freer (Student Affairs) has been promoted to Secretary 1.

Ashley Galante (Office of Communication & Marketing) has been appointed Web Developer.

Jacqueline George (English) has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Robin Jacobowitz, associate director of CRREO, has received a $133,599 grant from Kaplan Foundation for her project titled, “The Newburgh Armory Unity Center Literacy Education Advocacy Partnership (NAUC LEAP).”

Kathy Khuns (Human Resources) has been appointed Clerk 1.

Charlene Martoni (Library) has been appointed Library Clerk 2.

Piro Rexhep (Political Science and International Relations) has been appointed Lecturer.

School of Business faculty members Sally Schultz and Joan Hollister published an article, “The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company: Forming, Financing and Reporting on an Early 19th Century Corporation,” in the December 2014 issue of the Accounting Historians Journal.

Vicki Tromanhauser (English) has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Wendy Weiler (Institutional Research) has been appointed Senior Research Analyst.

Greta Winograd (Psychology) has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Michelle Woods (English) has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Associate professors of English Michelle Woods and Sarah Wyman published an article, “Aesthetic Radicalism: Langston Hughes’s Lost Translation of Federico Garca Lorca’s Bodas de sangre/Blood Wedding” in the Winter 2014 issue of Modern Drama.

Tammy Zavadil (Custodial)  has been appointed Janitor.