|
||
|
|
|
|
Press Releases | |
March 16, 2001
University Announces Trustees Awards for Scholarly Achievement3 Professors to be Honored for their Outstanding Work
Contact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Three professors from Southampton College have been selected to receive the Long Island University Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement for 2001. Marc Fasanella, Associate Professor of Design and Visual Communication, Phyllis Kudder-Sullivan, Associate Professor of Art, and Sandra Shumway, Professor of Biology and Marine Science, will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 4th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Duke Lecture Hall at Southampton College with a reception to follow in the Kanas Lobby. Acclaimed author Dava Sobel will be the guest speaker.
Each year Long Island University honors faculty members from its three main campuses for an outstanding scholarly achievement or a body of work accomplished during their lifetime.
R. Marc Fasanella is Associate Professor of Design and Art Education at Southampton College. He received his PhD in Art & Art Education from New York University in 1991. His dissertation entitled the Environmental Design of Jones Beach State Park has appeared as serialized articles in both the Long Island Historical Journal and the Long Island Forum. Along with his career as an educator Professor Fasanella has worked as a curator, graphic designer and publisher.
Professor Fasanella's more recent research has focused on the Arts & Crafts movement in England and the work of the 19th century designer William Morris in particular. He is the author of William Morris: Art & Life which appeared in the Spring 1999 edition of the Journal of the William Morris Society. He received the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement for a work done in the spirit of William Morris, a limited edition art book entitled Mary: A Christmas Story (a rather agnostic account of the celebrated pregnancy.) Just as Morris embraced advancements in printing technology to spawn the 19th century private press movement, Fasanella utilized digital imagery to produce a work that evokes the hand of the craftsman and not the imprint of the technology itself.
Kudder-Sullivan received her MFA from Long Island University's CW Post Campus before joining the faculty as Assistant Professor at Southampton College in 1988. Her works have been shown in juried exhibits in Canada, Italy, France and Norway as well as nationally including the Lill Street Gallery in Chicago, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames, Iowa. She has also been shown in more than 20 individual and group exhibits over the past twenty years.
Dr. Sandra Shumway, is a distinguished research scientist and internationally recognized authority on shellfish biology. She received her B.S. from Southampton College in 1974 and returned to Southampton in 1992 as Professor of Biology and Marine Science. She teaches Comparative Physiology, Marine Ecology, Oceans, Scientific Writing and Current Topics in Marine Science at Southampton College.
Dr. Shumway received the Long Island University Trustees Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in 1997 and this past year had a newly discovered toxic marine organism named in her honor, Pfiesteria shumwayae.
Guest speaker Dava Sobel wrote Longitude and 1999's Galileo's Daughter, which have both sold more than 500,000 copies, and have been translated into 23 languages worldwide. She was the recipient of last year's John Steinbeck Award at the annual Meet the Writers Book Fair, sponsored by Southampton College.