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Of the eight awards presented to students at the recent Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, three were won by Binghamton geography students.  Two first-year graduate students ─ Stephanie Brewer and Luis Sanchez-Ortiz ─ and undergraduate student Luis Rodriguez were recognized for the superior quality of their papers and presentations.

Binghamton’s debate team won both the varsity and novice divisions at Rutgers University’s tournament in September. In the varsity division, the top two teams were both from Binghamton. Winning debaters competed in rounds for 22 hours over three days and beat programs including Cornell, the University of Rochester, West Virginia University, West Point and many more.

ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ Dining by Sodexo’s Chef Sam Pfaffenbach took first place in Sodexo’s company-wide Battle of the Chefs Competition at this year’s Management Conference in Florida for his Ponzu marinated chicken breast over Thai fried amaranth with stir fried vegetables.

Competitors dishes were evaluated on five criteria: serving method and presentation; portion size and nutritional balance; creativity, menu and ingredient compatibility; and flavor, taste, texture and doneness.

Sodexo’s annual management conference includes managers and chefs from all divisions of the company’s North American operations: campus, government services, healthcare and corporate dining. Chefs are chosen by division to compete in a cook-off for the company’s ultimate culinary superiority. This year, the campus division had more than 500 chefs from which to choose and selected Pfaffenbach for his fearless culinary style and competition experience.

His win at the management conference comes on the heels of a bronze award for his culinary efforts at this year’s National Association of College & University Food Services competition.

Joseph Wlostowski, operations director for Parking Services, was named the International Parking Institutes 2014 Parking Supervisor of the Year. Wlostowski was honored at the IPI annual conference and expo in June. The award recognizes his outstanding work as well as his ability to be a positive role model for the parking industry. He has dedicated himself to the parking industry for more than 22 years and is passionate, resourceful, knowledgeable, ambitious and generous. Known as a true professional and a credit to the parking industry, his staff knows him as a top-rate supervisor. .

Drew Massey, assistant professor of music, recently won the inaugural ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Excellence in Music Criticism, one of a handful of internationally competitive book awards for music, for his book John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page (University of Rochester, 2013). Although the Virgil Thomson award is new, the Deems Taylor awards were established in 1967 to recognize excellence in writing about music.

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The National Association of College & University Food Services awarded ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ a bronze award for the ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ MarketPlace in the Retail Sales-Multiple Concepts/MarketPlace category of the 2014 Loyal E. Horton Awards. .