Stories

Student Profile: Michael Campbell, Mechanical Engineering Technology `16

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories August 31, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

“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 …

Women in STEM

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories July 13, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

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 …

Student/Alumni Profile: Jenjira May Htoo

by Kristin HaackerAlumni, Student Stories June 22, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

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, …

Veteran Rick Yarosh tests adaptive golf club.

Mechanical Engineering Students Help Veteran

by Kristin HaackerAlumni, Student Stories June 19, 2015September 26, 2019Comments are Disabled

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 …

Faculty Profile: Lena Bertone’s Works Published

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus May 18, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

Lena Bertone teaches English and communications on SUNY Poly’s Utica campus. When she’s not teaching and helping others to hone their ability to tell stories, she’s writing them herself, with two books seeing publication recently. Behind This Mirror, published in January, is a collection of short pieces she had published in online and print magazines …

Staff profile: Shannon Pritting, Library Director

by Kristin HaackerCampus News April 30, 2015Comments are Disabled

When he was in the U.S. Navy, Shannon Pritting participated in months-long NATO humanitarian deployments that covered many European and Caribbean countries, supervised a nine-man team and held Top Secret Security Clearance. He was responsible for all incoming and outgoing data as well as computer and electronics maintenance, and all levels of information collection, organization, …

Faculty Book Looks at the Past, Personal and Cultural

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus March 16, 2015September 7, 2018Comments are Disabled

In some form or another, we all look back on the past, but Assistant Professor of Digital Media Ryan Lizardi makes it his mission to look at how we get caught in the thralls of nostalgia, and how clear the vision of our own past is. In his new book, Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and …

Faculty Profile: Narayan Sharma

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus March 16, 2015Comments are Disabled

Family man. Researcher. Teacher. Each of these words could be used to describe Narayan Sharma, assistant professor of biochemistry. If you ask Sharma himself, though, he likes to use one term in particular: lifelong learner. “I came from Nepal where I was a high school teacher, but I always like to gain new knowledge. I’m …

Sarita at an event tabling with materials

Student Cooking Up Success With Her Own Food Truck

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories March 16, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

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 …

Faculty Profile: Ilulian Gherasoiu

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus March 16, 2015Comments are Disabled

Ilulian Gherasoiu was amazed when he first saw the 1966 science fiction film “Fantastic Voyage” in which a submarine is shrunk to microscopic size and travels through a human body. And the idea of technology becoming increasingly smaller has stayed with him. Now, as assistant professor of electrical engineering at SUNY Poly, Gherasoiu is fascinated …

Innovation Challenge students posting sticky notes with ideas to wall.

Campus Hosts Regional Innovation Challenge Event

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories March 16, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

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 …

Kazuko and collaborators in front of their research poster

Faculty profile: Kazuko Behrens

by Kristin HaackerFaculty in Focus March 16, 2015October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

Once upon a time, Kazuko Behrens navigated the busy streets of Manhattan and the hustle and bustle of the Wall Street scene. She soon discovered that Wall Street was not all it was cracked up to be; and as her disenchantment with that life began to grow, so did her interest and desire to do …