Library Faculty and Staff Honored at Annual Awards and Recognition Dinner

Jay Levenson, Native American Heritage Display, November 1, 2017.

More than 130 Stony Brook University faculty and staff were honored at the Annual Awards and Recognition Dinner on November 8. President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD and Provost Michael A. Bernstein hosted the event that celebrated faculty achievements and Chancellor’s Awards and Presidential Mini-Grants recipients.

Honorees from Stony Brook University Libraries

Jay Levenson, Access & User Services
Presidential Mini-Grant for Departmental Diversity Initiatives – “Using Diversity to Bridge the Barriers Between Academic Disciplines”

Kate Kasten, Head of Humanities and Social Sciences
National Network of Libraries of Medicine – “Medical Library Project Award”

Art Crawl, Melville Library, September 2017.

Kristen Nyitray, Director, Special Collections and University Archives, University Archivist
Presidential Mini-Grant for Departmental Diversity Initiatives – “Stony Brook University Art Crawl”: Samantha Clink, Janice Costanzo, Jinyoung Jin, Karen Levitov, Kristen Nyitray, Katherine Schwarting, Lorraine Walsh

A complete list of the 2017 honorees is available here.

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Contact her for research assistance with rare books, manuscript collections, historical maps, and SBU history. E-mail: kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu.

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