November 2021 Senate Report
Provost's Office Initiatives
The Provost thanks the faculty for their support and attendance during the inaugural festivities
Faculty Pathways
The Faculty Pathways website initiative will connect faculty at each stage of their career with high-caliber mentoring and development opportunities, interdisciplinary connections, and new avenues for leadership and collaboration. The Provost’s Office has launched a new Faculty Pathways website that brings together these resources, as well as a revised interface for academic affairs forms and policies relevant to each career stage.
Accelerating Research
The Accelerating Research initiative brings together a series of projects designed to spur scholarly activity across the university. Projects include Tiger Teams to explore new external funding opportunities; additional OVPR personnel; seed grants focused on the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences; a Strategic Research Council; and more. The President’s Office recently announced the launch of a new Accelerating Research website outlining and updating these projects, and highlighted upcoming supports during an online Campus Conversation.
Rose Martinelli, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives: update on information technology issues discussed at the prior Senate meeting
Elizabeth Newman, Vice Provost for Curriculum and Undergraduate Education: update on the Learning Management System
Awards and Accolades
- Chemist José Rodriguez Named Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
- SBU Research Group, Start-Up Awarded $1 Million from NSF for Robotics Proposal
- Shrish Patel Wins 2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition for SolarClear
- Physics and Astronomy Faculty Named APS Fellows, Win Physics Innovation Award
- Two from SB Medicine Named Fellows of SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute
- AMS Professor Zhenhua Liu Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
- Susan Lee Receives INSPIRE Award from American Medical Women’s Association
- PhD Student Chosen for DOE Graduate Student Research Program
- Chi-Kuo Hu Receives NIH New Innovator Award, $1.5M Grant