The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Business accolades
• Mary Jane Burt of the Pearce Real Estate New Haven Office has earned the 2nd Quarter 2014 Production Achievement Award presented by the New Haven Association of Realtors. The achievement award is granted on a quarterly basis to Realtors who have exhibited an overwhelming volume of real estate production based on a point system. Qualifying for the Achievement Award requires nine points during the quarter.
• Caroline Vitale Koziatek, vice president for human resources at the University of New Haven, has been named the Distinguished Administrative Woman in Higher Education by the Connecticut ACE Women’s Network. Koziatek was nominated by UNH President Steven H. Kaplan and was presented with the award at the group’s recent conference at Fairfield University. Kaplan said that Koziatek has been an advocate for women, both at UNH and prior to UNH, and has mentored 13 women. Koziatek, who also serves as UNH’s Title IX coordinator and diversity officer, is “a highly respected member of my administration throughout the campus, particularly as a passionate and invaluable advocate for women,” Kaplan added.
• Attorney Frank C. Bartlett Jr. has been selected by the Connecticut Law Tribune as one of Connecticut’s 2014 “New leaders in the Law.” Bartlett has distinguished himself in many ways in the legal community with multiple victories at the state Supreme Court and many significant awards in the lower courts, including two of the Law Tribune’s top 25 jury verdicts for 2013. His focus is on personal injury litigation. Bartlett, a native of Madison, is a partner in the Cheshire firm of Bartlett Burns LLC.
• Sue Popplewell of the Pearce Real Estate Guilford office has earned the 2nd Quarter 2014 Production Achievement Award presented by the Middlesex Shoreline Association of Realtors. The achievement award is granted on a quarterly basis to REALTORS who have exhibited an overwhelming volume of real estate production based on a point system. Qualifying for the Achievement Award requires nine points during the quarter.
• DataHaven Executive Director Mark Abraham has been presented with the Impact Award from the Community Indicators Consortium. The international organization honored Abraham with a trophy and opportunity to speak to the assembly. Abraham illustrated how DataHaven and its partners across Connecticut have collected and used public data to advance community change. Abraham has served as the Executive Director of DataHaven since 2009, transforming it from a data gathering initiative into a research and community development program with several full-time staff.
• The Pearce Real Estate Edgehill Realtors Team, at left, including Ray Baldelli, Wojtek Borowski, Fran DeToro, Jorge Gil, Lisa Lindholm, Gil Marshak, Judith Normandin and Denise Santisteban, all of the New Haven office, earned the 2nd Quarter 2014 Production Achievement Award presented by the New Haven Association of Realtors. The achievement award is granted on a quarterly basis to REALTORS who have exhibited an overwhelming volume of real estate production based on a point system. Qualifying for the Achievement Award requires nine points during the quarter.
• Dorothea E. Brennan recently was designated a Certified Master Facilitator by the International Institute for Facilitation. This is the highest certification available in the industry and Brennan is one of 25 Certified Master Facilitators in the world, according to a release. Facilitation is a highly structured meeting in which the facilitator, the leader of the session, guides participants through a series of predefined steps to arrive at a result created, understood and accepted by all of the participants. Brennan is a senior project manager for The United Illuminating Co., mentors sophomores in Fairfield University’s Ignatian Residential College, is a member of Fairfield’s 375 Anniversary Celebration committee and is a Fairfield fire commissioner.
• Robert Yawson of Wallingford, assistant professor of management in the School of Business at Quinnipiac University, has been selected to serve as track chair for the Organizational Development and Change Track at the 2015 Academy of Human Resource Development International Conference in the Americas on Feb. 17 in St. Louis, Missouri. Yawson earned his doctorate in organizational leadership, policy and development at the University of Minnesota. He holds a master’s degree in science, technology and environmental policy from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, and a post-graduate certificate in food management from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and master of philosophy in biochemistry from University of Ghana.
• Four lawyers, shown above, with Neubert, Pepe & Monteith have been selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2015: Michael D. Neubert, founding partner, medical malpractice law — defendants; Deborah Monteith Neubert, founding partner, construction law; Douglas S. Skalka, partner, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law; and Andrew R. Lubin, partner, real estate.
• Robert Smart, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of English at Quinnipiac University, recently received the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society’s Newbridge Silver Literary Award at Maynooth University in County Kildare, Ireland. Smart, of Middletown, earned the honor during the society’s 27th International Festival. Smart earned his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Utah. He also holds a master’s degree in rhetoric and comparative literature from the University of Utah and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, where he was a double major in English and history. He is the founding editor of “The Writing Teacher” and the author of “The Nonfiction Novel” and numerous articles on Gothic and Irish literature.
• Start Bank in New Haven has earned a Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) from the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. Start Bank was selected to receive an award of $355,000 through the FY 2014 round of the BEA program for its support of affordable housing development by providing affordable housing development loans and project investments, small-business loans and project investments, and commercial real estate loans and project investments in low-income New Haven neighborhoods.
• Quinnipiac University has awarded tenure to 11 faculty members: Adrienne Betz of New Haven, associate professor of psychology; Anat Biletzki of Hamden, Schweitzer professor of philosophy; Dwayne Boucaud of Cheshire, professor of biomedical sciences; Cory Boyd of Pound Ridge, New York, associate professor of nursing; Mary Ann Cordeau of Wolcott, professor of nursing; Christian Eggers of Southington, associate professor of biomedical sciences; Hilary Fussell Sisco associate professor of public relations; Hillary Haldane of North Haven, associate professor of anthropology; Jessica Hynes of West Hartford, associate professor of legal studies; Nita Prasad of Westport, associate professor of history; and Lise Thomas of Hamden, associate professor of biology.
• Five lawyers from LeClairRyan’s Connecticut offices have been selected for inclusion into the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Brian J. Donnell, commercial litigation, construction law, litigation — construction;
Richard W. “Deke” Bowerman, personal injury litigation — defendants; Niclas A. Ferland, bankruptcy and creditordebtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law, litigation — bankruptcy; Ilan Markus, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law; and Margaret P. Mason; employment law — management, medical malpractice law — defendants, personal injury litigation — defendants.