WCSU professors earn Faculty Awards

Three professors at Western Connecticut State University received 2022-23 Faculty Awards from the Connecticut Board of Regents.

Jeanette Lupinacci, a Danbury native who lives in Brookfield, received one of three campus-based Board of Regents teaching awards; Anna Malavisi, who lives in Ridgefield, received one of four campus-based Board of Regents research awards; and adjunct professor Jean K. Robinson, who resides in Bridgewater, received the systemwide Board of Regents adjunct faculty teaching award and was a campus-based Board of Regents adjunct faculty teaching award nominee.

In total, 15 Connecticut State Colleges and Universities faculty members earned awards from the state’s Board of Regents. These teaching awards are presented to faculty from each of the four state universities, Charter Oak and the 12 community colleges. Awards focus on exemplary teaching, research and scholarly excellence.

Lupinacci, chair of the Department of Nursing since 2018

and also undergraduate coordinator and faculty member, was a visiting assistant professor and adjunct professor in the department. She also teaches courses in the graduate and Ed.D. in nursing education programs. Lupinacci is a graduate of WCSU, earning her master’s in nursing — clinical nurse specialist track in 2004. Her two children attend WCSU.

Malavisi has taught courses in philosophy on social and political thought, environment and climate change, feminist philosophy and peace and justice for six years at WCSU. She is also a member of several committees, including the General Education Committee, the Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum and Standards and the Jane Goodall Center at WCSU, as well as the e-board of the UndocuAlly Task Force and the Racial Justice Coalition. Her research comprises the analysis and critique of ideas and putting forward new ideas. Malavisi recently published the book “Global Development, Ethics, Epistemic Injustice: Rethinking Theory and Practice.”

Robinson, an adjunct faculty member since 2016, teaches corporate finance and personal finance in WCSU’s Ancell School of Business. She is also the chair

for the Finance Department Advisory Board. Robinson, a former corporate banker, has served as CFO, COO and president at various companies during her 39-year career in finance and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.