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James Wyant \u201967 (MS), \u201969 (PhD)<\/strong> is a professor emeritus and founding dean of the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. The college, where he has been a faculty member since 1974, was renamed in his honor in 2019.<\/p>\nA leader in the field of optical metrology, Wyant is founder of two companies that produce optical measuring equipment: the WYKO Corporation, at which he served as president and board chair from 1984 to 1997, and the 4D Technology Corporation, at which he served as board chair from 2002 to 2018. He has received several awards for his technical work and entrepreneurialism, including the Optical Society\u2019s (OSA) Joseph Fraunhofer Award; International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Gold Medal, as well as its Visionary Award; the State of Arizona\u2019s Innovator of the Year Award; the University of Arizona\u2019s Technology Innovation Award; and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Rochester\u2019s Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n
Wyant has contributed to the life of the University of Rochester in many ways over several decades. He taught in the Institute of Optics Summer School from 1983 to 2015; served on the Board of Trustees from 2012 to 2017, after which he became a life trustee; and honored his former optics professor by establishing the M. Parker Givens Professorship in Optics.<\/p>\n
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Inventors, a fellow and former president of OSA, and a member and former president of SPIE. Wyant received a bachelor\u2019s degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University before earning master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in optics from Rochester.<\/p>\n
The Eastman Medal recognizes outstanding achievement and dedicated service in honor of the University\u2019s great benefactor and the founder of Eastman Kodak Company<\/strong><\/h3>\nJohn (Dutch) Summers<\/strong> is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Graywood Companies, a Rochester-based global private equity firm with more than 50 business units in 13 states and nine countries. Graywood Companies began as a small tool and die business started by Summers\u2019s father and grew to its current scope under his leadership. Summers continues to be actively involved in Graywood Companies while also contributing financially and in-kind to a variety of community and philanthropic projects. Over the past few years, much of his philanthropy has been focused on education and on improving the educational outcomes of schools and higher education.<\/p>\nIn 2017, he and his wife, business leader and University Trustee Sandy Parker, were the recipients of the Monroe Community College Foundation\u2019s Salute to Excellence Award for their commitment to public higher education and the community. The following year, RIT\u2019s Saunders School of Business presented Summers with the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, an award given annually to an individual who has developed a business that improved the Rochester economy, or whose innovative management skills have changed the course of an existing business.<\/p>\n
Summers has served on the board of directors of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and was inducted into the Rochester Business Hall of Fame in 2010.<\/p>\n
The Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith Hutchison Medal recognizes alumni for outstanding achievement and notable service<\/strong><\/h3>\nAlice Holloway Young \u201957 (MEd), \u201969W (EdD)<\/strong> has called her life\u2019s mission \u201cbreaking down barriers so that others may shine.\u201d She is a groundbreaking educator, community leader, and children\u2019s advocate.<\/p>\nBorn in 1923 in North Carolina, she overcame the challenges of growing up in the Jim Crow South before starting her career with the Rochester City School District (RCSD) in 1952. She was among the first African American teachers in the district and the first African American to hold the titles of reading specialist, vice principal, and principal for RCSD. Additionally, she wrote and supervised the district\u2019s first integration programs, including the Urban-Suburban program, the oldest voluntary desegregation program in the country. She retired from RCSD in 1985 as supervising director of elementary education.<\/p>\n
Young also served as a founding trustee of Monroe Community College in 1961 and chaired the college\u2019s Board of Trustees from 1978 to 1998. In March, she was presented with the 2021 Liberty Medal\u2014the highest honor awarded by the New York State Senate. The award, given for lifetime achievement and exceptional community acts, recognized Young\u2019s impact on education in Rochester and Monroe County spanning more than 50 years.<\/p>\n
She has received numerous other awards and recognitions, including a 2019 Icon Success Leadership Award from the Rochester Business Journal<\/em>; a 2018 Woman of Distinction honor from the New York State Assembly; the Anne M. Bushnell Memorial Award for Special Achievement, the highest honor conferred by the State University of New York Association of the Boards of Trustees of Community Colleges; and the Urban League of Rochester\u2019s Distinguished Community Service Award, among several other accolades.<\/p>\nUniversity Teaching Awards for Excellence<\/strong><\/h3>\nEdward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching<\/strong><\/h4>\nReinhild Steingr\u00f6ver<\/strong> is a professor of German at the Eastman School of Music and an affiliate professor of film studies in the Program of Film and Media Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences. Her interdisciplinary background is a strong asset for her teaching in the humanities department at Eastman, where she quickly nurtured the love of language and added elective courses in film studies. Besides excellent language instruction, a critical component of this curriculum\u2019s success is the German Romantic Poetry course she developed specifically for music students. This popular course, taught in German, has become a prized experience and an incentive for students to pursue language study to an advanced level.<\/p>\nHer research is focused on marginalized voices in contemporary German film and literature. Steingr\u00f6ver has won grants and awards from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) Foundation, the Suhrkamp Foundation, and the Eastman School, which awarded her the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was also awarded a Bridging Fellowship from the University to spend a semester at the George Eastman Museum\u2019s L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.<\/p>\n
Steingr\u00f6ver has curated live-to-picture programs for the George Eastman Museum, RIT, and the Cinematheque Berlin. In 2009, she was cocurator for the film festival in Los Angeles titled Wende Flicks: Last Films from East Germany. Most recently, Steingr\u00f6ver curated the live-to-picture program Sound Utopias, a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus art movement, performed by the German National Jazz Youth Orchestra (BuJazzO). Together with BuJazzO, the Filmmuseum Frankfurt, and composer Jeff Beal \u201985E, she is preparing Sound Utopia II to premiere later this year.<\/p>\n
Steingr\u00f6ver earned her PhD from the University at Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching<\/strong><\/h4>\nStewart Weaver <\/strong>is a professor of history in the School of Arts & Sciences whose teaching encompasses a wide range of subjects, including global exploration, natural history, the history of India, British history, and the First World War. An eloquent lecturer and compassionate facilitator of discussions, Weaver has long been one of the most beloved teachers in the department of history. He excels in three important areas of history instruction: planning a meaningful syllabus with well-chosen readings and lecture topics; delivering engaging and edifying lectures; and skillfully facilitating discussions in which students themselves lead the process of historical discovery.<\/p>\nHis first two books reflected his early career interest in the history of labor and the working classes in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. His subsequent turn to the history of exploration and the environment began with his prize-winning book, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes<\/em> (Yale University Press), coauthored with Maurice Isserman \u201979 (PhD), and Exploration: A Very Short Introduction<\/em> (Oxford University Press).<\/p>\nMost recently, Weaver has been at work on \u201cClimate Witness: Voices from Ladakh,\u201d a community-engaged project to help preserve the culture and history of a mountain region in northern India under immediate threat from the forces of climate change. In 2019, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and this year the \u201cClimate Witness\u201d project won the Public Outreach Award of the American Society for Environmental History. Weaver earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in history and English from Duke University in 1979 and his doctoral degree in history from Stanford University in 1985.<\/p>\n
Graydon Curtis \u201958 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching Excellence<\/strong><\/h4>\nTricia Shalka <\/strong>is an assistant professor in the Warner School of Education and Human Development\u2019s higher education program. Her primary research investigates the impacts of traumatic experience on college students, particularly in terms of developmental outcomes. She also maintains a secondary research interest in the internationalization of higher education with a particular emphasis on the experiences of international students in American colleges and universities. Shalka exemplifies excellence in the classroom, as a mentor and advisor, and as a colleague looking to innovate and explore new programming that meets the needs of Warner School students. She is described by students as being student-centered and highly supportive of their goals.<\/p>\nShalka\u2019s scholarship is actively informed by her previous experiences in higher education administration. She has worked in residential life, fraternity and sorority life, student affairs assessment, and student and young alumni programs. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Trauma Studies in Education<\/em> and is on the editorial board of the Journal of College Student Development<\/em>. Shalka has published in several major journals, including the Review of Higher Education<\/em>, the Journal of College Student Development<\/em>, and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education<\/em>.<\/p>\nShe has received several awards, including the American College Personnel Association\u2019s (College Student Educators International) Emerging Scholars Award and the Association of College Unions International\u2019s Chester A. Berry Scholar Award. Shalka received her doctorate in higher education and student affairs from the Ohio State University, her master\u2019s degree in college student personnel from the University of Maryland, and her bachelor\u2019s degree in English from Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n
Graydon Curtis \u201958 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching Excellence<\/strong><\/h4>\nEllen Matson<\/strong> is the Wilmot Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences. Not just focusing on in-class instruction, she has a strong interest in the advancement of scientific knowledge broadly, and a firm commitment to the holistic training of future leaders in chemistry. In addition to her teaching load of undergraduate and graduate chemistry courses, she has collaborated with the Rochester Center for Community Leadership and the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning to develop two new undergraduate courses. Both classes take innovative approaches to creating unique learning experiences for STEM majors.<\/p>\nHer research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of multimetallic metal oxide assemblies for applications in energy conversion and energy storage. Currently her work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.<\/p>\n
She has won numerous awards for her teaching and scholarship, including the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation\u2019s Course Hero\u2013WW Excellence in Teaching Fellowship; the Research Corporation for Science Advancement\u2019s Cottrell Scholar Award; and, most recently, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation\u2019s Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.<\/p>\n
Matson graduated from Boston University with degrees in chemistry and science education in 2009 before completing her PhD in chemistry at Purdue University in 2013. Before joining the Rochester faculty, Matson was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n
William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching<\/strong><\/h4>\nBrian Brent<\/strong> is the Earl B. Taylor Professor at the Warner School of Education and Human Development. Beginning his career as a certified public accountant, Brent developed an interest in school finance. He entered graduate school in education at Cornell University, earning a master\u2019s degree and a PhD before joining the faculty of the Warner School.<\/p>\nAs a faculty member in the Educational Leadership Program, Brent teaches courses in administrative decision making and fiscal issues in schools and universities. In these courses, he provides students with the methodological skills needed to conduct thoughtful decision analyses to improve organizational policies and practices. Several years ago, he and his colleagues completely reimagined the EdD degree and developed one of the first accelerated cohort models of doctoral education for school administrators in the country. Central to their model was a revamped capstone project, creating a new degree requirement that school administrators would find useful to their career trajectories.<\/p>\n
Brent\u2019s research interests include the equity of district- and school-level human and capital resource allocation policies and practices, equity in the ability of districts to raise local revenues, and the cost-effective use of education dollars.<\/p>\n
During his Warner tenure, Brent has served as the senior associate dean for graduate studies and as the acting dean. He currently serves as Warner\u2019s faculty ombudsperson for the University Ombuds Office and the Ombuds Affiliate Network. He has received several awards for his scholarly work and teaching, including the University\u2019s Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Jean Flanigan Award from the American Education Finance Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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