2011 COMMENCEMENT - Buffalo State College

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD
Stephen V. Musolino, Class of 1976
Stephen Musolino, a certified health physicist at the United
States Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York, is a national
authority on the security of radioactive materials and
radiological emergency response.
A staff scientist in BNL’s Nonproliferation and National
Security Department, Dr. Musolino focuses much of his current
work on counterterrorism efforts. He is trained to evaluate the
consequences of a radiological emergency—including the
detonation of radiological weapons by terrorists—and advise
local authorities on how to minimize the health and environmental
effects. He was part of the response team that searched
the World Trade Center site for radioactivity after the
September 11 attacks.
Dr. Musolino joined BNL in 1978 as a nuclear instrumentation
technician and became a health physicist in 1981. He
participated in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s
Global Threat Reduction Initiative, assisting foreign governments
and international and domestic organizations in improving
the security, control, and disposition of high-risk radioactive
materials. In conjunction with Interpol, the international
criminal police organization, he participated in a program to
transfer more than 300 radiation detectors and to instruct
more than 500 frontline police officers in 13 countries on how to
detect illicit radioactive material. Dr. Musolino also developed
and managed the Environmental, Safety & Health program for
Brookhaven’s world-class accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider, from construction through commissioning of the
$600 million facility.
During his distinguished career, Dr. Musolino has received
numerous awards from the Department of Energy and other
organizations. In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the Health
Physics Society. The honor recognizes senior members of the
society who have made significant administrative, educational,
or scientific contributions to the profession of health physics.
He has served as president and treasurer of the society’s Greater
New York chapter. In 2008, Dr. Musolino was elected to the
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
In addition, he serves as a member of the editorial board of the
journal Health Physics.
Dr. Musolino earned his bachelor of technology degree in
engineering technology from Buffalo State in 1976, a master of
science degree in nuclear engineering from Polytechnic Institute
of New York University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in health physics
from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989.