SUNY Brockport professor recognized

Osman Yasar, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Computational Sciences at SUNY College at Brockport, has been recognized as one of the "Top 30 Most Successful Turks in the World" by the internationally recognized Turkish magazine "Hürriyet" in its New Year's special edition.

He established the first undergraduate program in computational sciences in the United States at SUNY Brockport, the only program of its kind in the SUNY system and one of fewer than 10 offered nationwide.

Yasar currently serves as the director for the Institute for Computational Math, Science and Technology (CMST). The goal of this program is to improve math, science and technology education at higher education and K-12 institutions in the Rochester area.

The magazine article about Yasar includes two pages dedicated to his accomplishments.