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SUNY Poly Student Alex Huard Uses Magic to Raise Money for Rescue Mission of Utica

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories February 17, 2021October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

SUNY Poly student Alex Huard looked forward to sharing some magic with his fellow students. In SUNY Poly’s Information Design Technology (MS) program, Alex is also the leader of SUNY Poly’s Magic: The Gathering club. He had attended the gaming convention, PAX Unplugged 2019, and purchased 25 special booster packs for the card game. “I …

Nicole Watson at a Women in Sports event

Nicole Watson, MBA, Business Administration BS ’83: SUNY Poly’s Business Administration Program is ‘A Great Foundation for being Anything You Want’

by Kristin HaackerAlumni July 2, 2020July 2, 2020Comments are Disabled

From SUNY Poly to the South (Atlanta, GA), Nicole Watson ‘83 has made the most of her college experience by channeling an extraordinary career. As an award-winning media professional, she has worked for most of the top names in the broadcast industry, including Turner Broadcasting, HBO, ESPN, BET, and CBS. Her career has taken her …

T.J. Allard, Finance, B.S. ’97: My Life as a TV Film Producer is a ‘Tech Nerd’s Dream That All Started at SUNY Poly’

by Kristin HaackerAlumni April 22, 2020February 19, 2021Comments are Disabled

Long before two-time Emmy Award winner T.J. Allard would share an improv stage with “Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler, design video games for the “Batman” series, or pitch the idea for his latest project, History’s “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch,” he was a student at SUNY Poly. It was the mid- ‘90s and the …

Niranjan Addanki, Computer & Information Science, M.S., ’18: ‘SUNY Poly was a game changer for me’

by Kristin HaackerCampus News December 16, 2019December 16, 2019Comments are Disabled

A few years before moving to New York City to pursue a career in cybersecurity – specifically within the specialty of bot mitigation – SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) alumnus Niranjan Addanki could be found scrambling between classrooms in Donovan Hall, eagerly working to tackle his next big-data research project. A native of India, Niranjan …

Elias Zeina Business Administration B.S. ’17: SUNY Poly Allowed Me to Support My Family’s Business Through an Affordable, High-Value Education

by Kristin HaackerAlumni November 4, 2019October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

UTICA, N.Y. – Helping to carry on the tradition of excellent food, customer service and dedication to the culinary side of his Lebanese heritage, Elias Zeina, ’17, ’19, credits his education at SUNY Poly as being the “fuel to the fire” to take his family’s business to the next level. Zeina’s Café, opened in 2010 …

Internship Q + A: Jack Rogers, SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories October 31, 2019October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

Name: Jack Rogers Expected Graduation: May 2020 Program of Study: Ph.D. candidate in Nanoscale Science Internship Organization: SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions Organization’s area of work: SCREEN is a global leader in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry. SCREEN provides tools and equipment for lithography, wet cleaning, thermal annealing, and metrology. How did you find out about the …

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 …

Justine Imundo ’17, ’18, Finds Her Niche in Software Development at SUNY Poly

by Kristin HaackerCampus News October 1, 2019October 1, 2019Comments are Disabled

Utica native Justine Imundo M.S., ‘17, ’18, admits a career in software development might have been overlooked if her interest in the STEM field had not been piqued by an opportunity in high school through the BOCES Regional Program for Excellence. Justine, who currently works as a Software Developer for Capraro Technologies Inc., Utica, first …

Alumni Profile: From Balance Sheets to Bustin’ Rhymes – Eric ‘Generic’ Armitage ’17

by Kristin HaackerAlumni July 18, 2019August 27, 2019Comments are Disabled

When he’s not using his Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree to crunch numbers for his newly established business, Eric Armitage ’17 can be found dropping beats as a local hip-hop talent whose time at SUNY Poly helped him realize his lifelong dream. A native of Holland Patent, Eric found his niche in hip-hop after …

Alumni Profile: Alexandria Dodge CID ’17

by Kristin HaackerAlumni July 1, 2019October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

Marcy native Alexandria Dodge ’17, whose well-known voice can be heard throughout the Mohawk Valley as a radio personality for Kiss FM 97.9/105.5 and Bug Country 99.7/101.1 FM, would never have guessed her time at SUNY Poly would lead her to such an exciting career in her hometown. While a student at Whitesboro High School, …

My Study Abroad Story: Hayley Breeyear

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories May 13, 2019October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

I studied abroad in Cambridge, England, in the fall of 2018, attending Anglia Ruskin University. I spent some of my early days exploring, punting on the canals near Cambridge University, seeing King’s College Chapel, and visiting Cambridge University’s Botanical gardens. There is a market just off of the city centre that I walked through many …

Ashley Paw and friends in front of Capitol

Student Profile: Ashley Paw

by Kristin HaackerStudent Stories March 28, 2019October 30, 2025Comments are Disabled

While the Cayan Library on SUNY Poly’s Utica campus may be the go-to for Ashley Paw during a typical semester, the junior majoring in Network and Computer Security traded in those familiar stacks this past fall for the impressive records of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It was just one of the many …

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