Brookhaven Lab Recognizes 359 Staff at 2024 Awards Ceremony

November 18, 2024

Members of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory community gathered to recognize 359 colleagues for distinguished contributions and longtime commitment to the Laboratory at the 2024 Employee Awards and VIP Service Celebration, held in Berkner Hall on Nov. 13.

Twenty-two colleagues were presented with the Lab's highest accolades for its staff, the:

• Science & Technology Awards
• Engineering Awards
• Brookhaven Awards 
• Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards
• Distinguished Administrator Awards

Longtime staff — "VIPs" — who have provided 25, 30, and 35+ years of service to the Laboratory were also recognized.

Honorees are listed below.

Science & Technology Award recipients

These awards are presented to recognize distinguished contributions to the Laboratory’s science and technology objectives. The 2024 recipients are:

Michael Begel	Physics Department
Yoshitaka Hatta	Physics Department
Chang-Yong Nam	Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Edward O'Brien	Physics Department
Deepak Raparia	Collider-Accelerator Department

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Engineering Award recipients

These awards are presented to recognize distinguished contributions to the Laboratory's engineering and computing objectives. The 2024 recipients are:

Jesse Fite	Collider-Accelerator Department
Robert Pisani	Physics Department
Eric Raguzin	Instrumentation Department
Daniel Weiss	Collider-Accelerator Department
Team: Wei Xu, Weihe Xu, Juan Zhou, Hanfei Yan, Evgeny Nazaretski	National Synchrotron Light Source II

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Brookhaven Award recipients

These awards are given to recognize key contributors in support functions whose performance and achievements represent outstanding service to the Laboratory. The 2024 recipients are:

Dan Dandola	Business Services Directorate
Michelle McQueen	Facilities & Operations Directorate
Aleida Perez	Office of Educational Programs
Frank Toldo	Physics Department

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Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award recipients

These awards recognize key contributors who demonstrate leadership qualities that exemplify the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion into practical action. The 2024 recipients are:

David Biersach	Information Technology Division
Fernando Camino	Center for Functional Nanomaterials

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Distinguished Administrator Award recipients

These awards are presented to key contributors in the administrative support path, whose performance and achievements represent outstanding service to the Laboratory. The 2024 recipients are:

Cynthia Biancarosa	Office of Educational Programs
Lynanne DiFilippo	Collider-Accelerator Department

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VIP Service Anniversary honorees

60 years

Veljko Radeka

Instrumentation Department

59 years

Charles Carlson

Collider-Accelerator Department

58 years

Vincent Lo Destro

Collider-Accelerator Department

55 years

Cornelius Jackson

Stakeholder Relations Office

51 years

Joyce Moore

Radiological Control Division

49 years

Dennis Carlson	Collider-Accelerator Department
Andrea Epple	Radiological Control Division
Frederick Kobasiuk	Collider-Accelerator Department
Laurence Littenberg	Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
Elizabeth Mogavero	Physics Department
Peter Wanderer	Magnet Division

48 years

Joan Barrow	Information Technology Division
William Lenz	Physics Department
Juanita Mc Kinney	Information Technology Division
William Morse	Physics Department
Judith Williams	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Peter De Toll	Collider-Accelerator Department

47 years

John Hauser	Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
Robert Malone	Accelerator Facilities Division
Jon Sandberg	Collider-Accelerator Department
Bruce Weatherell	Operations Support and Planning Division
Ronald Zapasek	Collider-Accelerator Department

46 years

Kathleen Barkigia	Planning, Performance & Quality Management Office
Paula Bennett	Biology Department
Thomas Butcher	Interdisciplinary Science Department
Joseph Funaro	Collider-Accelerator Department
George Ganetis	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Richard Greene	National Synchrotron Light Source II
John Heiser	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
James Kierstead	Instrumentation Department
Jeanne Madaia	Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate
Hue-Anh Pham	Collider-Accelerator Department
Jo Ann Reed	Procurement & Property Management Division
Charles Trabocchi	Collider-Accelerator Department

45 years

William Behrens	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Steven Bennett	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Nicole Bernholc	Safety & Health Services Division
Richard Biscardi	Safety & Health Services Division
Richard Di Franco	Collider-Accelerator Department
Dawn Farrell	Business Operations Office
Richard Gagliardi	Production Division
Enrique Garcia	Physics Department
August Hoffmann	Physics Department
Peter Kohut	Nuclear Science and Technology Department
John Lara	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Robert Lehn	Collider-Accelerator Department
Gregory Mack	Information Technology Division
Bonnie Miller	Human Resources Directorate
John Scheblein	Physics Department
Craig Woody	Physics Department

44 years

John Benante	Collider-Accelerator Department
John Bohenek	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Charles Finfrock	National Security Program Office
Ady Hershcovitch	Collider-Accelerator Department
Francis Loeb	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Francis Mc Neill	Operations Support and Planning Division
James Mills	Collider-Accelerator Department
Joseph Tuozzolo	Electron-Ion Collider
Michael White	Chemistry Division

43 years

Walter Bay	Energy & Utilities Division
Theodore D Ottavio	Collider-Accelerator Department
Linda Hanlon	Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate
John Trunk	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Susan Wells	Information Technology Division

42 years

Michael Anerella	Magnet Division
Alfonso Borrelli	Magnet Division
John Cintorino	Magnet Division
Timothy Costanzo	Collider-Accelerator Department
Alfred Della Penna	Instrumentation Department
John Foley	Laboratory Protection Division
Jerry Gaeta	Stakeholder Relations Office
Anthony Kuczewski	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Robert Lambiase	Collider-Accelerator Department
Thomas Langdon	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Joseph Levesque	Laboratory Protection Division
Elliott Levitt	Internal Audit Office
John Muller	Information Technology Division
Maria Pacella	Legal Office
Pablo Rosas	Collider-Accelerator Department
Li Hua Yu	National Synchrotron Light Source II

41 years

Ronald Angona	Instrumentation Department
Henry Biedenkapp	Business Operations Office
Louis Cannizzo	Collider-Accelerator Department
LaRosa Collins	Information Technology Division
Mariette Faulkner	Physics Department
Steven Hulbert	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Mary Ann Maggio	Information Technology Division
James Meier	Collider-Accelerator Department
Susan Pepper	Nonproliferation and National Security Department
Antoinette Russo	Budget Office
Robert Sweet	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Christopher Weilandics	Safety & Health Services Division

40 years

John Addessi	Collider-Accelerator Department
Kevin Brown	Collider-Accelerator Department
Yusuf Celebi	Interdisciplinary Science Department
Mark Davis	Isotope Research & Production
James Desmond	Business Operations Office
Steven Gill	Internal Audit Office
Linda Greves	Human Resources Directorate
Donna King	Procurement & Property Management Division
Richard Lagattolla	Environmental Protection Division
James McManus	Information Technology Division
Thomas Nehring	Electron-Ion Collider
Danny Padrazo	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Victor Pineiro	Laboratory Protection Division
Sergio Rescia	Instrumentation Department
John Skaritka	Collider-Accelerator Department
Steven Tepikian	Electron-Ion Collider
Lisa Toler	Nonproliferation and National Security Department
Alexander Zaltsman	Electron-Ion Collider

39 years

Leesa Allen	Physics Department
Tracy Blydenburgh	Collider-Accelerator Department
Edwin Cancel	Operations Support and Planning Division
Joseph Carbonaro	Nonproliferation and National Security Department
Gregory Condemi	Radiological Control Division
Lynanne Di Filippo	Collider-Accelerator Department
Isidro Garcia	Operations Support and Planning Division
Wlodzimierz Guryn	Physics Department
Alan Gustavsson	Collider-Accelerator Department
Erik Johnson	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Terry Jones	Stakeholder Relations Office
Michael Lenz	Physics Department
David Lissauer	Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
Alexsandra Lopez	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Kim Mohanty	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Triveni Rao	Instrumentation Department
Marcelino Santiago	Operations Support and Planning Division
Anthony Shane	Operations Support and Planning Division
David Siddons	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Edward Sierra	Planning, Performance & Quality Management Office
Thomas Tallerico	Magnet Division
Diana Teich	Information Technology Division
Nicholaos Tsoupas	Electron-Ion Collider
Lawrence Vogt	Collider-Accelerator Department

38 years

Carol Bell	Radiological Control Division
Kimberly Boomer	Business Operations Office
Scott Buda	National Synchrotron Light Source II
John Carlson	Collider-Accelerator Department
Barbara Carreras	Business Services Directorate
Wayne Cummings	Operations Support and Planning Division
Sara Dawson	Physics Department
Charles Gardner	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Ramesh Gupta	Magnet Division
John Haggerty	Physics Department
Michael Hickey	Laboratory Protection Division
Claudia Jones	Operations Support and Planning Division
Leonard Masi	Collider-Accelerator Department
Antonio Mc Gill	Production Division
Richard Ruggiero	Physics Department
Gregg Tomasello	Energy & Utilities Division
John Tranquada	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Andreas Warkentien	Collider-Accelerator Department
James Wright	Modernization Project Office
Xiao-Qing Yang	Chemistry Division

37 years

John Aloi	Radiological Control Division
Robert Bellando	Energy & Utilities Division
Lonny Berman	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Vincent Bonafede	Information Technology Division
Anthony Caracappa	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Robert Chmiel	Safety & Health Services Division
Robert Colichio	Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate
Allan Corby	Information Technology Division
John Cozzolino	Magnet Division
Christopher Degen	Collider-Accelerator Department
Ann Emrick	Director's Office
George Gottschalk	Information Technology Division
John Hammond	National Synchrotron Light Source II
James La Bounty	Physics Department
Nikolaos Laloudakis	Collider-Accelerator Department
Andrew Levine	Radiological Control Division
Allen Licata	Laboratory Protection Division
Troy Mayo	Production Division
Thomas Nolan	Collider-Accelerator Department
Edward O'Brien	Physics Department
Benjamin Ocko	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Joseph Pagano	Production Division
Douglas Paquette	Environmental Protection Division
Donald Pinelli	Instrumentation Department
Arthur Piper	Integrated Facility Management
Jonathan Reich	Collider-Accelerator Department
Craig Rochon	Energy & Utilities Division
Donna Rubino	Business Operations Office
Carl Schultheiss	Collider-Accelerator Department
William Themann	Magnet Division
Thomas Throwe	Physics Department
Robert Todd	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Thomas Van Winckel	Magnet Division
Joseph Vignola	Radiological Control Division
Richard Wall	Collider-Accelerator Department
John Walsh	Instrumentation Department
Christopher Weaver	Information Technology Division
Maria-Gracia Webster	Center for Functional Nanomaterials
James Wishart	Chemistry Division

36 years

John Biemer	Integrated Facility Management
John Butler	Collider-Accelerator Department
Wei Chen	Instrumentation Department
Donna Chiossone	Business Operations Office
Anthony Costantini	Site Planning & Infrastructure Management
Phyllis D'Avanzo	Operations Support and Planning Division
Joseph De Cicco	Collider-Accelerator Department
Cheryl Eleazer	Procurement & Property Management Division
Louis Figueroa	Laboratory Protection Division
Lyn Fountaine	Operations Support and Planning Division
Arthur Harris	Production Division
Fredrick Horn	Safety & Health Services Division
Srinivasan Iyer	Information Technology Division
Piyush Joshi	Magnet Division
Richard Kurz	Collider-Accelerator Department
Albert Langhorn	Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Ann Marie Luhrs	Collider-Accelerator Department
Ioannis Marneris	Collider-Accelerator Department
Daniel Martin	Collider-Accelerator Department
John Mc Carthy	Physics Department
Joseph Muratore	Magnet Division
Wahfun Ng	Collider-Accelerator Department
Michael O'Connor	Laboratory Protection Division
John O'Hara	Nuclear Science and Technology Department
John Passaro	Energy & Utilities Division
Darlene Peragine	Human Resources Directorate
Eileen Pinkston	Computational Science Initiative
Brenda Riddle	Information Technology Division
Paul Sampson	Collider-Accelerator Department
Francis Scheifele	Collider-Accelerator Department
Kevin Smith	Electron-Ion Collider
Janet Soper	Procurement & Property Management Division
Edward Stein	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Frank Toldo	Physics Department
Thomas Tsang	Instrumentation Department
Samuel Velazquez	Radiological Control Division
Thomas Wozniak	Collider-Accelerator Department
Christopher Zarcone	Collider-Accelerator Department
Yimei Zhu	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Emil Zitvogel	National Synchrotron Light Source II

35 years

Donna Buckley	Business Operations Office
Michael Buckley	National Synchrotron Light Source II
David Coburn	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Thomas Daniels	Director's Office
Gary Danowski	Collider-Accelerator Department
Dane De Fio	Production Division
Raymond Diaz	Nonproliferation and National Security Department
Deborah Doyle	Integrated Facility Management
Joyce Fortunato	Planning, Performance & Quality Management Office
Jean Frejka	Nuclear Science and Technology Department
David Gassner	Electron-Ion Collider
Douglas Gordon	Collider-Accelerator Department
Manuel Grau	Magnet Division
Thomas Hayes	Nonproliferation and National Security Department
Gregory Heppner	Collider-Accelerator Department
William Jew	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Thomas Joos	Modernization Project Office
Martin Kelly	Energy & Utilities Division
Patricia Lee	Business Operations Office
Barry Lotko	Integrated Facility Management
Hong Ma	Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
William Mc Keon	Magnet Division
Thomas McEvaddy	Modernization Project Office
Joseph Mileto	Energy & Utilities Division
John Morris	Collider-Accelerator Department
Wailin Ng	Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate
Robert Pisarski	Physics Department
Jesse Schmalzle	Magnet Division
Arthur Sedlacek	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Jamie Sims	Laboratory Protection Division
Donna Storan	Safety & Health Services Division
Gary Weiner	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Edward Zeitler	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Edward Beebe	Collider-Accelerator Department

30 years

Kenneth Boland	Radiological Control Division
Mary Campbell	Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate
Milind Diwan	Physics Department
Thomas Doyle	Integrated Facility Management
Claudia Hatton	Business Operations Office
Terence Healy	Information Technology Division
Anand Kandasamy	Instrumentation Department
Jorg Kewisch	Collider-Accelerator Department
Jonathan Kotcher	Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
Cathleen Lavelle	Electron-Ion Collider
Jeong-Hun Lee	Physics Department
Ernest Lewis	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Ana Martinez	Guest Services Division
William Mc Pherson	Operations Support and Planning Division
Jean Odin Mc Cabe	Human Resources Directorate
Peter Picciano	Energy & Utilities Division
Deepak Raparia	Collider-Accelerator Department
Jason Remien	Environment, Safety and Health Directorate
Donna Russo	Operations Support and Planning Division
Sushil Sharma	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Scott Smith	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
William Smith	Instrumentation Department
Michael Viscusi	Modernization Project Office
Jessica Wilke	Planning, Performance & Quality Management Office
Michael Wooley	Production Division
Bernard Yatauro	Collider-Accelerator Department

25 years

John Anderson	Director's Office
James Anselmini	Chemistry Division
Alexander Bazilevsky	Physics Department
Joseph Berg	Electron-Ion Collider
Severino Binello	Collider-Accelerator Department
Noel Blackburn	Director's Office
Raymond Costa	Facilities and Operations Directorate
Cynthia Crawford	Business Operations Office
Deborah Crews	Integrated Facility Management
Alain Domingo	Information Technology Division
Alexei Fedotov	Collider-Accelerator Department
Lisa Folk	Human Resources Directorate
Wenge Fu	Collider-Accelerator Department
Ralph Garappolo	Guest Services Division
Edward Gavin	Waste Management Program
Timothy Green	Environmental Protection Division
Lee Hammons	Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
Henry Hocker	Magnet Division
Richard Izzo	Energy & Utilities Division
Lisa Jansson	Stakeholder Relations Office
Stephen Klerk	Waste Management Program
Eric Kramer	Environmental Protection Division
Lisa Metz	Integrated Facility Management
Bobbi Micari	Operations Support and Planning Division
Lisa Miller	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Christopher Naylor	Collider-Accelerator Department
Jorge Oliva	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Holly Olsen	Waste Management Program
Mary Ostensen	Business Operations Office
Leo Palumbo	Waste Management Program
Boris Podobedov	Electron-Ion Collider
Peter Realmuto	Operations Support and Planning Division
Tyler Rovig	Radiological Control Division
Anthony Santiago	National Synchrotron Light Source II
Robert Schoepfer	Collider-Accelerator Department
Alejandro Sonzogni	Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate
Michael Stangel	Information Technology Division
Deborah Thomas	Radiological Control Division
Marie Van Buren	Information Technology Division
Brian Van Kuik	Collider-Accelerator Department
Gabriel Vignato	Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Cynthia Von Gerichten	Fiscal Services Division
Karen Walsh	Stakeholder Relations Office
Igor Zaliznyak	Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department

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