Lougheed Center for Applied Learning
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The LoCAL serves the students of SUNY Potsdam with a variety of experiential learning opportunities.
Welcome to SUNY Potsdam's Learning & Research Fair 2025
2025 Award Winners
Fredrick B. Kilmer Research Awards
Sciences
First Place
Alyssa Card, Decoding Devonian Dynamics: Ancient Carbon Isotopes as Windows into the Paleo-Carbon Cycle and Environmental Shifts
Second Place
Sean Henley, Purification of the NCOA4 Protein via Liquid Chromatography
Third Place
Aldyn Landas, Alkyne Synthesis from 5-Pyrazolone Derivatives
Social Sciences
First Place
Kathryn Nelson, Making a Mark: Dating Analysis of Ceramics from Heaven Hill Farm
Second Place
Jericho Walter, From Dusk till Dawn: Conceptualizing Sunrise and Sunset in the Florentine Codex
Third Place
Evelyn Klein, Foul on the Play: Examining Gender Inequities in Professional North American Sports
Humanities
First Place
Alyssa Spina, Jewish String Musicians Throughout the Holocaust
Second Place
Michael Wong, The Evolution of Acoustical Technology in Concert Halls
Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Awards
First Place
WISER Team (Chase Bond, Gabby Mazzullo, Garrett O’Hara, Andrew DiPonio, Gershena Moise, Ellie Barbolt), Molecular Method for Monitoring Greenhouse Pest Populations
Second Place
ENVR 290 Decomposers (Ryan Goss, Kadi Palmer, Garrett O'Hara), Student Composting Incentives and Viewpoints
Third Place
ENVR 470 (Emily Yousey, Liam O'Neil, Ryan Goss), Sustainable Composting & Freecycling
Graduate Award
Pathways to Public Health Team (Hillary Rabel, Theresa Adams, Netta Terrance, Iris Torres), Pathways to Public Health: Advancing Health Equity Through Professional Development
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research
Alexandra Sveshnikova, Profiling Skeletons Using Long Bones from Medieval Burials in Central Kenya
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Raymond Bowdish and Robert Snyder
We extend our appreciation to the Dorf Endowment for Applied Learning, the Frederick B. Kilmer Fund, and the Ram and Seema Chugh Family Endowment for underwriting these awards.