In Brief Faculty Honors & Awards Professor Edward Steinfeld, an international pioneer in the field of inclusive design and environmental access and director of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA), has been awarded the title of SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest rank in the State University of New York System. / SUNY Distinguished Professor Edward Steinfeld heads the internationally renowned Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access. / Photo by Douglas Levere
Daniel B. Hess, associate professor of urban and regional planning, has received the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of his creative and energetic teaching, dedication to his students and continued professional achievements. The University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships has awarded Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., with the Lee Benson Activist Scholar Award, recognizing his leadership in urban planning, scholarship and work in the community as director of the Center for Urban Studies, which he founded in 1987. Dean Robert G. Shibley has received the Robert and Louise Bethune Award, the highest accolade that the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Buffalo/Western New York chapter bestows. The lifetime achievement award recognizes Shibley’s contributions to the profession of architecture over the past 30 years through practice, mentorship and community leadership.
/ Dean Robert G. Shibley has won the AIA Buffalo/WNY Chapter’s lifetime achievement award. / Photo by Douglas Levere
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