Honors, Grants and Awards

Director, 2010 Energy and Sustainability Institute for Elementary School Teachers.  This institute was offered to 19 elementary school teachers from August 9 - 13, 2010.  This institute was supported by a grant from the Department of Energy (PI: Susan Coultrap-McQuin) and Oswego School District. Total Budget: $15,000 plus in-kind support of experts and materials from the local energy industries.

Director, Energy Institute 2010: Energizing Education for a Better Future. This energy institute was offered to 15 high school teachers in science and technology from July 6 to July 15, 2010.  This institute was supported by a grant from the Department of Labor (PI: Nancy Bellow) and the Department of Energy (PI: Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Provost), Constellation Energy, National Grid, SUNY Morrisville, and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Total Budget:  $20,000 plus in-kind support of experts and materials from the local energy industries.

Director, Energy Institute 2009: Energizing Education for a Better Future. This energy institute was offered to 20 high school teachers in science and technology from June 24 to July 3, 2009. This institute attracted teachers from the Central New York region, New York City, and from Massachusetts and Connecticut.  This institute was supported by a grant from the Department of Labor (PI: Nancy Bellow) and the Department of Energy (PI: Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Provost). Total Budget: $20,000 plus in-kind support of experts and materials from the local energy industries.

Principal Investigator, Project: Learning by Knowledge Construction: An Innovation in The Beginnings of Science Course (PHY 303), Course Innovation and Program Development Grant,  SUNY Oswego, Summer 2007, Amount: $2,400.

President Award for Creative and Scholarly Activity or Research (life-time achievement award), SUNY Oswego. This award is to recognize lifetime accomplishments in scholarly and creative activity and research,  2001-2002.

NOVA/NASA Faculty Fellow, NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics (NOVA), a program for education, science, mathematics, engineering and technology university faculty involved in the content education of future K-12 teachers, 2001 - 2002. The purpose of this award is to determine the national impact of NOVA on institutions, programs, faculty, and students.

Principal Investigator (with Jack Narayan and Carlton Salvagin). Project: NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics (Project NOVA). Sponsor: NASA, 1999-2000.  Amount: $25,000.  A project to design two preservice courses: Energy Technology and Mathematical Topics in the Secondary Curriculum.

Award of Excellence, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, SUNY Oswego, April 22, 1998.  The award is intended for faculty who acquire substantial grant money for various academic projects.

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, The State University of New York, 1996-1997. This award is intended to recognize superior teaching.  

President, American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association, 1995-1997.  India has the third largest number of scientists in the world, and Indians form the largest community of minority scientists in America. 

President, Sigma Xi, Oswego Chapter, 1996-97.  Sigma Xi is an international honor society for scientists and engineers.  Its goals are to foster interaction among science, technology and society; to encourage appreciation and support of original work in science and technology; and to honor scientific research accomplishments.  

Co-Principal-Investigator. Project: Explorations in Mathematics and Physics. Sponsor: The National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator: Jack Narayan, 1996-1998.    In this program, each year a group of 32 promising students who just completed seventh grade were recruited from the Oswego School District and the Syracuse School District for a four-week residential program during the summers of 1996 and 1997 focusing on mathematics and physics.  Three more visits of the young scholars to SUNY Oswego were arranged during the academic year. About fifty percent of the students were selected from the minority groups. The male to female and urban to suburban ratios were also approximately equal to one (50%). Amount: $ 150,990.

Vice-President, Sigma Xi, Oswego Chapter, 1995-96. Sigma Xi is an international honor society for scientists and engineers.  Its goals are to foster interaction among science, technology and society; to encourage appreciation and support of original work in science and technology; and to honor scientific research accomplishments.

5000 Personalities of the World, Fifth edition, a biographical reference directory compiled by the American Biographical Institute, Inc., North Carolina, 1996.

Co-Director. Project: The General Science Initiative. Curriculum Development Grant, State University of New York, Oswego, 1995, $2,000 (with Ivan Brady).

Co-Director. Project: No Science is an Island.Conversations in the Disciplines Program, Sponsor: SUNY Central, Albany, 1995, $1500. (Director: Ivan Brady) Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffman, Cornell University and George Bugliarello, Chancellor, Polytechnic University, New York were invited to SUNY Oswego to give a talk on the nature of science and its interrelations with other disciplines.

Who's Who in the World, Marquis Directory, 12th edition, New Jersey, 1994.

Co-Principal-Investigator. Project: Explorations in Mathematics and Physics. Sponsor: The National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator: Jack Narayan, 1994-1996.   In this program, each year a group of 32 promising students who just completed seventh grade were recruited from the Oswego School District and the Syracuse School District for a four-week residential program during the summers of 1994 and 1995 focusing on mathematics and physics.  Three more visits of the scholars to SUNY Oswego were arranged during the academic year.  About fifty percent of the students were selected from the minority groups. The male to female and urban to suburban ratios were also approximately equal to one (50%). Amount: $139,548. 

Faculty Enhancement Grant. Project: The First Centennial of the Discovery of X-Rays: A Comprehensive Report on the Historical Developments and Technological Applications of X-Rays, State University of New York, Oswego.  Fall 1993.Amount: $2,810.

Consultant.  Project: Science/Mathematics Applied Resources for Teaching. Sponsor: The National Science Foundation, Eisenhower Foundation and others. Principal Investigator: C. Thomas Gooding. 1989-1995.  I worked as a consultant only for the Summer of 1993 to design lesson plans for elementary school teachers that could explain the scientific principles and the technology involved in ALCAN's manufacturing of aluminum.

Contemporary Authors, a reference series on a wide range of literary figures. Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1993.

Co-Director, Project: One-Photon, Multi-Electron Excitation Processes in X-Ray Absorption Spectra.  Principal Investigator: Professor T. Mukoyama, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.  Site of work: Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Tsukoba, Japan. 1988-1993.  A series of experiments were performed at Kyoto University and Synchrotron Radiation facility, Tsukoba, both in Japan.

Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Directory, New Jersey, 1991 and 1996.

Co-Principal-Investigator. Project:  Structural, Organizational, and Narrative Coherence: designing the introductory physics laboratory to increase retention of prospective science and engineering majors, with special attention to the needs of women and minorities. Sponsor:  National Science Foundation.  Principal-Investigator: Patrick Kenealy. 1991-1994.  Amount: $201,000.

Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award for excellence in teaching and research, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 1990.

Consultant. Project: An Interdisciplinary Physical Science Course for Pre-service Teachers and General Education Students: Telling and Directing Coherent Stories.  Sponsor:  National Science Foundation.  Principal Investigator: Patrick Kenealy.  1988-1991. Amount: $150,000.