ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The SUNY College at Oneonta will present honorary SUNY doctorates to two distinguished associates of the College this year. Cooperstown resident Hugh MacDougall, a retired diplomat and noted Cooper scholar, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Dr. Angelo Scopelianos, a 1977 graduate of the College who serves as the Vice President for Research and Development at Johnson & Johnson's Center for Biomaterials and Advanced Technologies, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Hugh MacDougall had an award-winning career of nearly 30 years with the United States Department of State, working for the foreign service in Europe, Africa, and South America. Upon his retirement to Cooperstown in the 1980s, he developed a scholarly interest in the Cooper family, notably the life and work of James Fenimore Cooper. His association with the College began through the SUNY-Oneonta James Fenimore Cooper conference and seminar, first as a participant and later as a presenter, organizer, and editor of the conference proceedings.
In 1989, Mr. MacDougall founded the James Fenimore Cooper Society to encourage and chronicle scholarship related to the author. The secretary/treasurer of the society since its inception, he also established the Cooper Society website, built it into a highly respected scholarly resource, and continues to maintain it today.
The current Cooperstown village historian, Hugh MacDougall has served on the village board of trustees and planning board. He has served on the boards of many community organizations, including the Cooperstown Rotary Club, Friends of the Library, Otsego 2000, and Cooperstown Art Association. He is also a founding member of the Center for Continuing Adult Learning.
Angelo Scopelianos graduated from SUNY-Oneonta in 1977 with a degree in chemistry and went on to earn his doctorate from Penn State. He joined E.I. DuPont's Medical Products Division as a research scientist in 1982, Elf Acquitane as manager of the drug delivery systems group in 1986, and Johnson & Johnson in 1988. He held a number of managerial positions with the company and was appointed Director of the Corporate Biomaterials Center upon its creation in 1996, earning promotion to Vice President in 1998.
In his position, Dr. Scopelianos leads a team of scientists and engineers that have developed many successful products used in surgery, including cranial devices that allow surgical access to remove and treat brain tumors; stents that reverse the effects of occluded arteries and atherosclerotic disease; novel combinations of bone-regenerating cells and biomaterials to repair bone defects; and wound dressings to treat non-healing ulcers in diabetic patients. He holds 35 U.S. patents with five additional patents pending, as well as 31 foreign patents. An award-winning scientist, he is the author or co-author of several academic publications.
Angelo Scopelianos returned to SUNY-Oneonta in 2006 as the keynote speaker at the College's annual Student Research Day. He has also presented seminars on campus on new developments in biomaterials. He and his wife have established the Dr. and Mrs. Angelo G. Scopelianos '77 Scholarship at the College to benefit students with financial need.
Hugh MacDougall and Angelo Scopelianos will receive their honorary SUNY
doctorates at the College's 2008
Commencement
ceremony on May 17.
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