The Voice

Each year, SUNY and numerous academic and professional groups honor hundreds of UUPers for outstanding accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in the communities.

The Voice is pleased to recognize three of these members this month.

• Lawrence Fialkow of SUNY New Paltz has been granted the rank of distinguished professor of mathematics and computer science. The distinguished professor designation is conferred on individuals who have achieved national or international prominence in a chosen field.

Fialkow, a 2001 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence, is an accomplished mathematics scholar who has achieved worldwide recognition for his seminal research in functional analysis.

The relationship between men and women might very well be the most studied topic in history, but there is still lots of ground to cover.

Ever since he was a graduate student, UUPer Glenn Geher, chair of the psychology department at New Paltz, has been interested in issues tied to human mating, so the purpose of his latest study published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology matched his interests.

“We wanted to better understand cross-sex mind-reading in the domain of mating, essentially asking ‘How well do women understand the mating thoughts of men?’ and vice versa,” Geher explains.