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Michael “Doc” Woods, professor of music, wrote a guest editorial for the Utica Observer-Dispatch (8/2/09) titled “Paying the price of being talented – and black.” The piece discussed the recent controversial arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates and described Woods’ experience of racial profiling when he was followed by a police car after stopping to ask for directions to a symphony office.

Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Outstanding Community Service by the Mohawk Valley Frontiers Club at a luncheon on Jan. 19. The club sponsors or contributes to many community service programs in the Mohawk Valley.