April 28, 2023

NYU SPS Community Celebrates This Year’s Faculty and Staff Award Recipients

Recently, Dean Angie Kamath and the NYU SPS community celebrated this year’s NYU SPS Faculty and Staff Award recipients at ceremony at 7 East 12th Street and virtually.

The 2022-2023 NYU SPS Faculty and Staff Award honorees include:

  • Edward L. Kleinert Faculty Service Award
    • Chyng-Feng Sun, Clinical Professor, Division of Programs in Business
  • Adjunct Faculty Service Award
    • Piper Henriques, Adjunct Instructor, Division of Programs in Business
  • SPS Excellence Award (Clerical)
    • Dita Pula, Administrative Aide, NEXUS
  • SPS Excellence Award (Administrator)
    • William Huntington-Duggan, Associate Director, Faculty Affairs
  • SPS Distinguished Administrator Award
    • Marilyn Williams, Associate Director, Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport
  • Teaching Excellence Award
    • Mary Beth Altier, Clinical Associate Professor, Center for Global Affairs
    • Thomas Alwood, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts
    • Gina Antoniello, Clinical Assistant Professor, Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport
    • Jerrod Delaine, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Schack Institute of Real Estate
    • Alan DiSciullo, Adjunct Professor, Schack Institute for Real Estate
    • Estelle Erasmus, Adjunct Instructor, Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts
    • Negar Farakish, Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Program in Business
    • Amy Finkel, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies
    • Bahriye Goren, Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Programs in Business
    • Shaunice Hawkins, Adjunct Instructor, Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies and Divsion of Program in Business
    • Jing Yang, Clinical Assistant Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Also, Shirish Patel, senior director of facilities administration, was recognized for leading our efforts to be the first college to be Green Workplace Certifed at the School level. This designation is part of NYU’s Green Workplace Certification program, which is designed to help improve sustainability across workplaces University-wide.

In addition to the NYU SPS awards, the community recognized the achievement of Donatella Delfino, clinical professor of mathematical studies within the NYU SPS Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies, for being bestowed a 2022-2023 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award.

Awardee with flowers bouquet

Established in 1987, these University-wide awards highlight NYU's commitment to teaching excellence and are given annually to selected outstanding faculty members. Recipients are presented with a research stipend. Delfino is the second NYU SPS professor to take home one of these prestigious awards.

Congratulations to all of the NYU SPS faculty and staff honored this year, and we would like thank you all of the honorees for their continued commitment and dedication to the NYU SPS community.


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