Steven Harvey, former vice president of research and funding at EPIC (Every Person Influences Children), has been named executive director of the Western New York Consortium of Higher Education’s Campus-Buffalo.

The project is a newly launched, multicampus initiative aimed at bolstering higher education as a thriving industry in the region and is funded by a $500,000 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation.

As executive director of CampusBuffalo, Harvey will work from the campus of Hilbert College in the Town of Hamburg.

Gov. David A. Paterson has appointed Gail Y. Mitchell and Thomas P. Stewart to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute board of directors.

“We welcome these newest members to the Roswell Park board,” said Michael Joseph, chairman of the board. “Their leadership and vision will help guide the Institute as it continues its mission to understand, prevent and cure cancer.”

Stewart is the president and chief clinical officer at Gaymar Industries, a global medical device company. He joined the company in 1981 to oversee its clinical research and subsequently served as director of medical research, vice president of sales and marketing, vice president of operations and vice president of new product development. He became president and CCO in 2000.

Stewart earned his doctorate from the University at Buffalo and completed a fellowship at Roswell Park. In 1987, Stewart founded the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and in 2003, he was the recipient of the panel’s first “Dr. Thomas Stewart Award,” given biannually to individuals who demonstrate leadership in public policy, as it relates to pressure-ulcer care and patient advocacy. In June 2008, Stewart was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Union of Wound Healing Societies.

He also is a member of the board of directors and chairman of the Life Science Industry Council of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. Additionally, Stewart is a member of the board of trustees of Daemen College, is vice chairman of the board of Insyte Consulting and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the UB School of Engineering.

Stewart replaces E. Philip Saunders, whose term has expired. Dr. Donald L. Trump, president of Roswell Park, praised Saunders for his dedicated service and advocacy.

Mitchell is an assistant U. S. attorney for the Western District of New York and a former assistant attorney general for New York State. She earned her law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1979. She is a member of the Erie County Bar Association and the Minority Bar Association of Western New York. Since 1999, she hass participated in tutoring and mentoring through the Erie County Bar Association Lawyers for Learning program. Before that, she served as a tutor and mentor at Buffalo School 6 in 1994 and 1995, when the school was known as the Academic Challenge Center. From 1997 to 2007, she served on the board of Buffalo Prep, a program that places academically gifted minority students in local private and parochial high schools. She currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of Elmwood Franklin School and is a member of the Brown University Alumni Schools Committee.

Donald A. Alessi was elected chairman of the Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park at a recent board of directors meeting. He succeeded Anthony P. LoRusso.

Alessi, an attorney, has been on the Naval and Military Park board. A past president of the Federation of Italian-American Societies of Western New York, he was named its “Person of the Year” in 2008. He was also the 2005 grand marshal of the Greater Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival.

The officers of the Naval and Military Park board of directors are: vice chairman, James E. McNicholas; secretary, Robert Bienvenue; and treasurer, Thomas F. Higgins, former Erie County sheriff. The new members of the board of directors are: Michael J. Billoni, Anthony N. Diina, Willmer Fowler and Marina Wilcock.

The Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park opened in 1979. The park is open seven days a week from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. until Oct. 31 and weekends only in November.