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Four SUNY Poly Professors Discuss Interdisciplinary Work in Humanitarian Engineering

by Sara FurlongFaculty in Focus February 19, 2024February 20, 2024Comments are Disabled

The culture at SUNY Poly is marked by interdisciplinary innovation toward practical solutions to real-world problems. A shining example is the work being done by those involved in humanitarian engineering initiatives across campus. As part of these efforts, faculty members from all four SUNY Poly colleges are collaborating to develop solutions that will change lives. …

SUNY Poly M.S. in Health Informatics Program Provides Tools Needed to Advance Careers in Healthcare Industry

by Joseph AbrahamCampus News, Faculty in Focus, Student Stories June 13, 2023June 14, 2023Comments are Disabled

Online program offering specialized training in informatics aspects of health sees first graduates Every program has its hallmark. For SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Master of Science in Health Informatics (HI) program, it’s “teaching the hands-on skills that employers are looking for,” explains Associate Professor and Program Coordinator Dr. Jerome Niyirora. “Employers are looking for people who …

Faculty in Focus: Dr. Adam McLain

by Joseph AbrahamCampus News, Faculty in Focus May 25, 2023Comments are Disabled

“I knew I never wanted to have a normal job where I worked in an office all of the time,” says Dr. Adam McLain, associate professor of Biology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. That realization eventually led him to graduate school at Louisiana State University, followed by his postdoctoral fellowship at the Henry Doorly Zoo in …

From SUNY Poly to the United Nations: Computer and Information Science Department Visiting Professor Dr. Sherif Hashem

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus October 18, 2019Comments are Disabled

Most days, Dr. Sherif Hashem, a visiting professor in SUNY Poly’s Computer and Information Science department, can be found giving a lecture to college students. However, on September 13, his audience was a bit different. Dr. Hashem last month gave a talk on capacity building in the area of cybersecurity to a United Nations Open-Ended …

Melissa Prest in front of the adviement office

Faculty Profile: Melissa Prest, College of Business Management

by Kristin HaackerAlumni, Faculty in Focus June 18, 2018Comments are Disabled

With a father in the military, Melissa Prest lived throughout the country as she grew up, from Washington to Kentucky, and Georgia to Hawaii, later returning to her birthplace of Utica, New York, when she was a teen after her father had finished serving. Receiving her associate’s degree with honors from Mohawk Valley Community College, …

Faculty Profile: Dr. Shahedipour-Sandvik – Nanoengineering for Harsh Environments

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus March 22, 2018Comments are Disabled

As nanoengineering professor and interim dean of graduate studies at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), Dr. Fatemeh (Shadi) Shahedipour-Sandvik’s research aims to improve electronic devices by fabricating them with the right characteristics to work well even in the harshest environments, such as in space or inside a jet engine. Shahedipour-Sandvik and her team are able to make …

Katie Matt at her desk in the Business Management Advisement Office

Faculty Profile: Katie Matt – Adviser, Faculty Member, Alumna

by Kristin HaackerAlumni, Faculty in Focus December 13, 2017December 13, 2017Comments are Disabled

When Katie Matt was a student in SUNY Poly’s accounting programs, she originally had her sights set on business. The experiences she’s undergone, though, have made teaching others her business, and brought her right back to where she learned it all – the hallways of SUNY Poly. “I appreciate the reaction students have when a …

Faculty Profile: Brent McCallum, Accountancy

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus May 17, 2017Comments are Disabled

Dubai, Thailand, Mexico, Cyprus, Vietnam, Chile, France, and the Netherlands. Those are but a handful of countries and locales Brent McCallum, CPA, has visited over the course of his long and distinguished career, earning the SUNY Poly Assistant Professor of Accounting the apt nickname Mr. Worldwide. “I began as a Psychology major at San Diego …

Faculty Profile: Dr. Andrea Dziubek, Applied Mathematics

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus February 13, 2017Comments are Disabled

From the capital of Germany to the rolling hills of Indiana, Dr. Andrea Dziubek has brought her specialty in Applied Mathematics around the world. And now she brings that knowledge, along with her worldwide experiences, to SUNY Poly as an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics. “My colleagues here at SUNY Poly are great, with expertise …

Faculty Profile: Dr. Timothy Busch, Systems Engineering

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus February 6, 2017Comments are Disabled

In the sky, on the ground, and in the classroom, Dr. Timothy Busch has been putting the ideas of systems engineering to work and to the test most of his adult life. It was his interest in technology, particularly electronics, that led him to enlist in the United States Air Force as an aircraft electronics …

Dr. Kathleen Rourke at the Nursing White Coat Ceremony

Faculty Profile: Dr. Kathleen Rourke, Nursing

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus January 5, 2017Comments are Disabled

She’s spent more than two decades in academia, holds two bachelor’s degrees, two master’s degrees, a PhD and has a Certification in Education. She’s worked with institutions all across the United States and throughout her travels served as faculty, a Dean, Associate Dean, VPAA, on a Board of Trustees, and been a Chair of a …

Professor Lisa Beradino with some of her artwork

Faculty Profile: Dr. Lisa Berardino, Human Resource Management

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus November 23, 2016Comments are Disabled

“Are there mountains around Utica? I am looking for mountains…” It was with those words that Dr. Lisa Berardino, a New Orleans native with a doctoral degree from Virginia Tech, contemplated the job offer in what would soon become her home for nearly two decades. The job offer at SUNY Polytechnic Institute came following a …