Lougheed Center for Applied Learning

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.

Fredrick B. Kilmer Research Awards

Science

First Place- Rebekah Tardif - "Engineering Human Heteropolymer Ferritin Towards Understanding Subunits Self-Assembly"

Second Place- Eryl Bevan- "Symbionts, Host Shifting, and Speciation in the Enchenopa binotata Species Complex"

Third Place- Mackenzie Wessels, Alyssa Card- GEOL 480 Ancient Climate and Environments Lab- "Change in Carbon Isotopes Throughout Devonian Age Sedimentary Rocks"

 

Social Sciences

First Place- Daniel Mariano- "What Conditions Activate Authoritarian and Populist Attitudes?"

Second Place- Ayisha Khalid, Woodly Eustache- APLE 499 Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Opinion Lab- "How the COVID-19 Pandemic Polarizes American Public Opinion"

Third Place- James Besenval- "The Origin of Cooking:  Serving Up Bright Ideas"

 

Humanities

First Place- Michael Wong- "Performance-Related Injuries in Violinists"

Second Place- Ana Schmid- "The Not So Sweet History of Kakaw"

 

Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Awards 

First Place- Mary Keating, Harper Barrett, Paige Brown, Grace Romer, Cameron Rogers- ENVR 470 Applied Sustainability- "Giving a Scrap! - Implementing Composting at SUNY Potsdam"

Second Place- Jada West- "The Wild Connection:  Small Mammal Abundance as a Predictor for Tick-Borne Diseases"

Third Place- Lacie Castile- "Comparing Medical Translation Support Between the North Country and Western New York"

 

Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research 

 Emily Bailey- "A Sustainable Approach to Historical Costuming:  Frugality, Digitization & Applied Learning"

 

Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research 

Timothy Yip