Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Those words, by the late Nelson Mandela are how Alida Rivera de Davis describes her motivation for enrolling in the M.S. Nursing Education program at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. “Investing in my academic future will provide me with the necessary tools to …
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Junior Mike Aiello took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk about the club he founded: Wildcats Care. The club is involved in many activities on- and off-campus: it’s largest activity to date is holding the first-ever, student-based Relay for Life in the Wildcat Field House this spring.
Computational Boot Camp ’15 & the SUNY STEM Passport Program A dozen students from SUNY Poly, SUNY Poly’s CNSE, Stony Brook University, SUNY Buffalo, and University of Albany convened at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica this summer for a boot camp unlike any other. The two-week computational boot camp, led by SUNY Poly faculty members Andrea Dziubek, Edmond …
At first glance, Molly D’Agostino, a senior Interdisciplinary Studies major focusing on pre-law, resembles your typical college student. But when she’s not in the classroom, she’s performing around the country with her band, Pacinello. Her hard-working attitude and the flexibility of the IDS program make it possible for Molly to combine her pursuit of her academic …
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With an abundance of awards to her credit, one might find it difficult to pinpoint Lauren Lowe’s greatest achievement. But if you ask the 2015 graduate of SUNY Poly’s Nurse Practitioner Graduate program, she’ll give you a quick and simple answer – her family. Balancing life as a mother, wife, and full-time graduate student with a …
“Dr. Wei was looking for real-world application, not just good results in a lab.” Real-world results are what Robyn Christoferson, a junior biology major at SUNY Polytechnic Institute discovered this summer while working on a research project headed by Dr. Steven Wei, Coordinator of the Civil Engineering program. Upon hearing of Dr. Wei’s research on …
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“Internships allow insight to real-world experiences away from a protected classroom environment.” Michael Campbell, mechanical engineering technology student, said after his summer internship at Indium Corporation. Campbell, a senior at SUNY Poly, interned at Indium Corporation of America as an Engineered Solder. Indium Corporation received over 200 applications for the twelve positions available and Campbell …
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More and more women are studying science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs in college. Read about one of our nanoscale engineering students, Eve. Name: Eve Borden Year: Junior Major: Nanoscale Engineering Why were/are you interested in pursuing a degree in the nano sciences? I’m interested in pursuing a degree in nanoscale engineering because it is …
When she walked across the stage of the Wildcat Field House in May 2015 to receive a master’s degree, Jenjira May Htoo was a long way from the refugee camp in Thailand where she was born. A Karen refugee whose family came from the Karen borderlands between Thailand and what is now known as Myanmar, …
More than anything else, he’d like to golf again. Rick Yarosh of Windsor, N.Y., was deployed to Iraq in 2005. He served nine months until one day, in September 2006, his tank was hit by a makeshift bomb. The attack left him with terrible injuries. More than 60% of his body was badly burned, and …
It’s often said that the best way to learn is through experience, and one business student at SUNY Poly’s Utica campus is getting her experience first-hand, running and expanding a business of her own creation. “Many of us, at one point or another, have thought about starting our own business,” said Sarita Ruiz, junior, the …
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Students from SUNY Polytechnic Institute and other area colleges competed over the course of two days to create innovative solutions to the area’s most challenging social and economic issues. The inaugural “Innovation Challenge New York: Mohawk Valley,” supported by a grant from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, was hosted October 24-25 by …
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