Distinguished faculty and staff named at Stark State College

Dr. Yojana V. Sharma, department chair/associate professor of mathematics and physics; Rebecca Priest, director of strategic grant development, and Frank Alexander, adjunct instructor, have received the Stark State College 2007-2008 Distinguished Teacher Award, Staff Excellence Award and the Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award respectively.

Sharma, a resident of Jackson Township, has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Delhi, India and a doctorate in mathematical physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India. A Stark State faculty member since 1993, she previously completed her post-doctorate at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. Sharma is a member of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges and the American Association of Physics Teachers, as well as the Alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology.

Priest has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Kent State University. A Jackson Township resident, she has been with Stark State since 1983 and has served on Stark State’s Emerging Technologies Task Force and the Fuel Cell Technology Team. She currently serves on the College’s Aesthetics Committee and the Extended Executive Council.

Alexander, a resident of Jackson Township, graduated from the University of Findlay where he majored in business administration and minored in secondary education. He has been an adjunct instructor in the Business Technologies Division at Stark State since 2002. He also is an adjunct faculty member of the Diebold Business Improvement System and is the program developer for the “Voice of Diebold” Business Literacy Module. Currently, Alexander serves as the director of executive briefing programs at the Diebold Global Solutions Center.

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