Jill (Dizeo) Guzzardo was appointed to the administration at Nassau BOCES Children’s Readiness Center (CRC) for the 2021-22 school year.
David Burch was selected to the 2021 Super Lawyers Upstate New York and Rising Stars lists. He is partner at Barclay Damon LLP, Syracuse.
Ema Buco joined Northwestern Mutual as chief strategy officer. She oversees the highest level of financial representative recruiting, onboarding and development processes. Ema is a former resident director at UAlbany. She currently serves on the Alumni Association’s Benevolent Association Board of Directors.
Paul Turner started a new career in voiceover acting. He is a video narrator and podcast announcer for a well-being series on YouTube.
Deborah Y. Cohn, PhD, was appointed interim dean of the School of Management at New York Institute of Technology.
John Friedman was named managing director in Grant Thornton LLP’s Environmental, Social and Governance and Sustainability practice, based in the firm’s Arlington, Va. office.
Elizabeth Chilton, Washington State University’s provost and executive vice president, will also become the first chancellor of WSU’s flagship Pullman campus in July 2022.
Patrick McCullough is a founding member of the Executive Council Network, a platform that hosts world-class summits and events and creates opportunities for corporate leaders to connect and drive their impact beyond corporate walls. Patrick is senior vice president of NCR Corporation and serves on the MyVenue board of directors. He played football under Coach Bob Ford 1982-85 and is a member of the UAlbany Athletics Hall of Fame.
After years of being encouraged by friends to write a Star Trek book, entertainment journalist Ian Spelling co-authored Star Trek: The Original Series – A Celebration, published in September 2021 by Hero Collector/Penguin Random House. Ian has written for New York Times Syndicate, Troy Record, Reader’s Digest, Bergen Record, (201) Magazine, Fatherly.com and more. He was the editor of StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek site, 2010-2019. Ian has written for various official Star Trek magazines and has penned the weekly syndicated column, “Inside Trek & Sci-Fi, ”for more than 20 years. He also was an extra on “Voyager” and “Deep Space Nine”. Ian was the Associate Aspects editor for The ASP and covered movies, UAlbany events, and productions at Proctors Theater.