SUNY Morrisville

STEVIE WATSON has been appointed dean of the School of Agriculture, Business & Technology at SUNY Morrisville. He is the first dean of Morrisville’s School of Agriculture, Business & Technology, one of two new schools within the college formed after reorganizing and restructuring programs previously spread across four schools. Watson most recently was dean of the School of Business at Edgewood College, in Madison, Wisconsin, and chair of the Department of Management, Marketing & Public Administration at Bowie State University in Maryland. Prior to Bowie State University, Watson served as a full-time marketing faculty member at Rutgers Business School (New Jersey) and the University of Dayton (Ohio). He also served on the faculty at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Watson has additional work experience as a financial analyst, business information specialist and marketing analyst at Bryan Foods, a Sara Lee company. In 2010, he was named as one of five national recipients of the prestigious Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for accounting and business school faculty. Watson earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration in marketing, an MBA degree, and a doctoral degree in business administration (marketing) — all from Mississippi State University.

ANÍBAL TORRES BERNAL has been named the new dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Sciences & Society at SUNY Morrisville. He is the first dean of Morrisville’s School of Liberal Arts, Sciences & Society, one of two new schools within the college formed after reorganizing and restructuring programs previously distributed across four schools. Most recently, Torres served as associate dean of the Division of Counseling and Family Therapy at Regis University in Colorado. Prior to that, he was mental health program director at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Throughout his career, Torres has held academic, administrative, and clinical appointments at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Syracuse University, Fairfield University, Indiana University, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Torres earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, and a master’s degree and doctor of philosophy in marriage and family therapy, both from Syracuse University.