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Brewer, Singh named fellows
Two UB faculty members recently were elected fellows by their respective professional organizations in recognition of their significant contributions to their professions.
Carol Brewer, professor in the School of Nursing, was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). The AAN advances health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge. AAN’s 1,500 fellows are nursing’s most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice and research.
Tarunraj Singh, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a professional organization promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering, and allied sciences.
Brewer specializes in the nursing workforce and the chronic nursing shortage in the United States. Her work on this topic has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
A UB faculty member since 1994, she serves as director of nursing for the New York State Area Health Education Center System Statewide Office, developing nursing policy and nursing and health care workforce development programs. She also serves as the Steering Committee Chair for the Institute for Nursing, a New York State nursing workforce center.
Brewer has received numerous honors and awards, including the Foundation of New York State Nurses Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award, a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and a UB Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achievement Award. She also has been a member of several federal review boards.
Brewer received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Denison University, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Trenton State College and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Tennessee, as welk as a master’s degree in applied economics and a PhD in nursing systems, both from the University of Michigan.
Singh was recognized by ASME for his contributions in the area of control and estimation: control is the branch of engineering concerned with generating precisely the right inputs to generate a desired output, while estimation allows engineers to model how systems will behave in the future and to quantify the uncertainty associated with that model.
Applications of Singh’s research range from better forecasting of natural and manmade disasters to enhancing the precision of robotic systems.
The author of “Optimal Reference Shaping for Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications,” Singh has published more than 175 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers.
He has received numerous awards, among them the Teetor Award for engineering education from the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; a NASA summer faculty fellowship and a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He twice was awarded the Riefler Award, which honors outstanding junior faculty in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
He was educated at Bangalore University, the Indian Institute of Science and the University of Waterloo in Ontario, where he received a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1991.
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