Accolades

Individual Awards

• Robert Alpi

  

  Accolades

  Awards:
  
  

  2024 Outstanding New Professional Award. 44th Student Affairs Convocation, 2024. Stony Brook University.

• Ahmed Belazi, MPH IPC

  

  Accolades

  Awards:
  
  

  LICSPA – Individual Excellent Award – 2021

  Peter M. Baigent Leadership Award, Division of Student Affairs, Stony Brook University – 2021

  Consulting and Presentations:
  
  

  Suicide Prevention Long Island Coalition Conference – 2021

  Governor's and Mayor's Challenge to Prevent Suicide Among Service Members, Veterans, and their Families Suicide Mortality Review Academy – Subject Matter Expert and Technical Assistance Consultant – U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – 2023 - 2025

  Taking the Pulse of the Campus: How to Launch a 2-Item Weekly Pulse Survey, Institutionalize its Insights, & Harness AI Tools for Deeper Analysis – Commission on Information, Measurement & Analysis Summer Meeting – 2024

  School of Professional Development OLLI Strategic Planning Retreat, Stony Brook University – Lead Facilitator – 2024

  Higher Education Administration Program Faculty Member instructing Research and Assessment, Stony Brook University – 2025

  Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Co-Advisor – 2020 - 2025

• Gabriella Czerw, MBA

  

  Accolades

  Awards:
  
  SUNY CUAD 2024 Award for Best of Category for Excellence in Institutional Websites for her submission entitled “SBU Campus Life Centers Website Redesign and ROI Strategy.”

  Distinguished Service Award for System Innovations at the 43rd Annual Student Affairs Convocation, 2023.  Stony Brook University.
  
  

  Presentations:
  
  Utilize Google Analytics Web Tracking To Achieve Your Tangible Strategic Goals.SUNY CUAD 2024 Annual Conference, Hauppauge, NY.

  Creating a Support Group for Marketing Folks in a Non-Marketing World. HighEdWeb 2023 Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY.

• Rachael Eyler

  

  Accolades

  Awards:
  
  I’m a Seawolf Award. 44th Annual Student Affairs Convocation, 2024.  Stony Brook University.
  
  

  Online Journalism Association’s David Teeuwen Journalism Award:  “Believe At Your Own Risk: The Rise of Deepfake Technology” (2020).

  Marie Colvin International Reporting Award (2019)
  
  Investigative, Reporters & Editors Award Winner: “Believe At Your Own Risk: The Rise of Deepfake Technology” (2019)

  Marie Colvin International Reporting Award (2018)

  Presentations:
  
  Creating a Parent and Family Communications Program. SUNY CUAD Annual Conference 2024, Hauppauge, NY.
  
  
  
  Enhancing Crisis Communication: Leveraging Video, Social Media, and Interactive Content for Student Support. NASPA Annual Conference 2025, New Orleans, LA.
  
  

• Sonia Garrido, MBA

  

  Accolades

  Awards:
  
  Distinguished Service Award for Team and Collaboration. 40th Annual Student Affairs Convocation, 2020.  Stony Brook University.

  Presentations:
  
  Creating a Parent and Family Communications Program.  SUNY CUAD Annual Conference 2024, Hauppauge, NY.

  Creating a Support Group for Marketing Folks in a Non-Marketing World. HighEdWeb 2023 Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY.

  Engaging parents and families: They are an audience too.  HighEdWeb 2022 Annual Conference, Little Rock, AR.
  
  

  Publications:
  
  Engaging parents and families: They are an audience too. Journal of Education Advancement & Marketing, 8(2), Autumn/Fall 2023. https://www.henrystewartpublications.com/jeam/v8

• Simran Kaur

  

  Accolades

  Awards:

  Division of Student Affairs New Professional Award. November 2022.

  Outstanding Student Affairs Program Award. Issued by State University of New York Chief Student Affairs Officers and the Office of University Life for the project Taking the Pulse of the Campus: How to Launch and Use a Two-Item Pulse Survey. June 2023.

  Presentations:
  
  Taking the Pulse of the Campus: How to Launch and Use a 2-Item Pulse Survey. NASPA Region II Annual Conference. June 2024, Philadelphia, PA.

  Taking the pulse of the campus: How to launch and use a two-item pulse survey. Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum, May 2023, Cleveland, OH.

  Publications:

  Student Employment: The Next High-Impact Practice.  Savoca, M., Smith, K.K. and Kaur, S. (2024), Student Employment: The Next High-Impact Practice. Assessment Update, 36: 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/au.30410

• John Obi

  

  Accolades

  Awards:

  Recipient of the LICSPA Conference 2024 Award for Recognition and Excellence in Presentation and Conference Planning Support.

  Presentations:

  Leveraging Data Analytics to Improve Sexual Health Services: Data-Driven Insights from Sexual Health Services Love Data Week SBU 2025.

  Transforming Education through Data Analytics: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices. LICSPA Conference LIU 2024.

  Heart Disease Prediction: Model Vs Drivers.  Data Science and Machine Learning Seminar NYU 2023. 

• Adam Pilipshen

  

  Accolades

  Presentations:

  Pilipshen, A. & Abromovic, S. (2023, Oct 11 – Oct 12). The Challenges of OER Assessment and Evaluation. SUNY OER Summit.  Oneota, NY, United States.

   Pilipshen, A. (2023, January 9). A Campus Community for Everyone: Defining, Operationalizing, and Measuring Student Engagement. Student Affairs Conference at NYU.  New York, NY, United States.

   Pilipshen, A. (2017, May 30 – June 2). Supporting Self-Regulated Learning with Student-Centered Learning Analytics. SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology. Oneota, NY, United States.

  Pilipshen, A. (2023, January 9). A Campus Community for Everyone: Defining, Operationalizing, and Measuring Student Engagement. Student Affairs Conference at NYU, New York, NY, United States.

  Publications:

  Pilipshen, A. G., & Abramovich, S. (2023). The utility of Alderfer’s ERG theory of motivation for measuring adult learner motivations in informal learning environments. In P. Blikstein, J. Van Aalst, R. Kizito, & K. Brennan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 (pp. 2133-2134). International Society of the Learning Sciences.

  Milillo, D., & Pilipshen, A. (2018). Digital tools to deliver content and allow for interaction in online education. In R. J. Harnish, K. R. Bridges, D. N. Sattler, M. L. Signorella, & M. Munson (Eds.), The use of technology in teaching and learning. Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

  Professional Service:

  Peer Reviewer: American Educational Research Association
  
  Peer Reviewer: International Conference of the Learning Sciences.