Lougheed Center for Applied Learning

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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.

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