The Lougheed Center for Applied Learning celebrates the achievements of independent student research and creative projects. For our past award winners, see below.
Frederick B. Kilmer Research Awards
Science
1st Place
Rebekah Tardif
Engineering Human Heteropolymer Ferritin Towards Understanding Subunits Self-Assembly
Faculty Mentor(s): Fadi Bou-Abdallah
2nd Place
Eryl Bevan
Symbionts, Host Shifting, and Speciation in the Enchenopa binotata Species Complex
Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Snyder
3rd Place
GEOL 480 Ancient Climate and Environments Lab
Mackenzie Wessels, Alyssa Card
Change in Carbon Isotopes Throughout Devonian Age Sedimentary Rocks
Faculty Mentor(s): Page Quinton, Michael Rygel
Social Sciences
1st Place
Daniel Mariano
What Conditions Activate Authoritarian and Populist Attitudes?
Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Hinckley, Michael Popovic
2nd Place
APLE 499 Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Opinion Lab
Ayisha Khalid, Woodly Eustache
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Polarizes American Public Opinion
Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Hinckley
3rd Place
James Besenval
The Origin of Cooking: Serving Up Bright Ideas
Faculty Mentor(s): Timothy Messner
Humanities
1st Place
Michael Wong
Performance-Related Injuries in Violinists
Faculty Mentor(s): Brianne Borden
2nd Place
Ana Schmid
The Not So Sweet History of Kakaw
Faculty Mentor(s): Timothy Messner
Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Awards
1st Place
ENVR 470 Applied Sustainability
Mary Keating, Harper Barrett, Paige Brown, Grace Romer, Cameron Rogers
Applied Sustainability: Giving a Scrap! – Implementing Composting at SUNY Potsdam
Faculty Mentor(s): Jessica Pearson
2nd Place
Jada West
The Wild Connection: Small Mammal Abundance as a Predictor for Tick-Borne Diseases
Faculty Mentor(s): Katherine Cleary
3rd Place
Lacie Castile
Comparing Medical Translation Support Between the North Country and Western New York
Faculty Mentor(s): Kelly Bonnar
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research
Emily Bailey
A Sustainable Approach to Historical Costuming: Frugality, Digitization & Applied Learning
Faculty Mentor(s): Tom Grabowski, Jay Pecora
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Timothy Yip
Frederick B. Kilmer Research Awards
- 1st Place
Lacie Castile Berea
College and African American Educational Development (1855-1912)
Faculty Mentor(s): Thomas Baker
- 2nd Place (tie)
Zamani Ackie-Davis
Using Dinosaur Fossil Deposits to Predict Eustatic Sea Level Change
Faculty Mentor(s): Jessica Rogers
- 2nd Place (tie)
Rebecca Gomez
How has the Removal of Nixtamalization Impacted Mesoamerican Cuisine and Culture?
Faculty Mentor(s): Timothy Messner
Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Awards
- 1st Place
Yaricuyay Moran
Adirondack Inventory and Monitoring Camera Trapping at SUNY Potsdam
Faculty Mentor(s): Katherine Cleary
- 2nd Place
Mckensey Biggie
What's for Dinner? Beetle Herbivory as a Biological Control for Purple Loosestrife
Faculty Mentor(s): Jessica Rogers
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research
Dr. Robert Hinckley’s Kilmer Survey Research Lab
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Polarizes American Public Opinion
Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Hinckley
Students: Justin Brandon Berrios, Ayisha Khalid, Robert Patterson, Jessica Perez, Jack Rice, Slade Wright
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Katherine Cleary
Frederick B. Kilmer Research Awards
- 1st Place
Emily Vierno
Development of Photogrammetry Techniques to Investigate Musicians' Posture
Faculty Mentor(s): Tracy Lipke-Perry
- 2nd Place
Lucas Scalcione
Thermostability of Heteropolymer Ferritin with Different H to L subunit Ratios Studied by Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Faculty Mentor(s): Fadi Bou-Abdallah, Ayush Srivastava
- 2nd Place
Aisha Laguda
Is the Proteasome Involved in Elc1 Mediated Degradation of Polyadenylations Factors?
Faculty Mentor(s): Fathima Nazeer
Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Awards
- 1st Place
Samuel Rosenberg
Archaeology of the Jewish Communities of St. Lawrence County 1855-1945
Faculty Mentor(s): Hadley Kruczek-Aaron
- 2nd Place
Madison Shammas
Exploring Campus Recruitment Methods: A Dive into Social Media
Faculty Mentor(s): Raymond Bowdish
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research
Cassandra Spillane
Use of Red Ochre in Burial: Reason to Ritual?
Faculty Mentor(s): Timothy Messner
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Timothy Messner
Frederick B. Kilmer Research Awards
- 1st Place (Humanities)
Gemma Small
A Look at ‘The Blue Lotus’ Through Language, Imagery, and Historical Setting
Faculty Mentor(s): Shiho Imai, Laura Lunt
- 1st Place (Social Science)
Lauren Wright
Analysis of Dental Traits from Revolutionary War Dentition
Faculty Mentor(s): Jaimin Weets
- 1st Place (Science)
Ruth Reichard
Rapid and Sensitive Colorimetric Method for Detection of Several Toxic Heavy Metals
Faculty Mentor(s): Fadi Bou-Abdallah
Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Awards
- 1st Place
Awehiawaks Herne
ICINA: Indigenous Cultural Identity Narrative Assessment
Faculty Mentor(s): Claire Starrs
- 2nd Place
Rachel Grohbrugge
Bear Carebook: Development of a Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Assessment
Faculty Mentor(s): Claire Starrs
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research
- Brianna Gerhardt
Can Music Change Mood? An Experimental Affect Priming Study
Faculty Mentor(s): Claire Starrs
- Aliaksandra Reutovich
The effect of physiological phosphate concentrations on iron mineralization and mobilization in ferritin
Faculty Mentor(s): Fadi Bou-Abdallah
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
- Claire J. Starrs for exemplary support of students doing undergraduate research in the lab
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Student Research
John Christantiello, Electroencephalography: Machine Assembly & Diagnostic Testing
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Dr. Glenn Johnson, for exemplary support of students doing undergraduate research in the classroom, the lab, and the field.
Frederick B. Kilmer Research Award
- 1st Place (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences):
Emily Willis, At Rest: An Epidemiological Study of Potsdam’s Cemetery Populations
- 1st Place (Sciences):
Aaron Charlack, Development of Green High School Chemistry Labs
- 2nd Place (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences):
Jeremy Walts, The Valuation of Computer Generated or Enhanced Art
- 2nd Place (Sciences):
Arielle Wolter, Effects of Transcription Blocking Drug on mRNA Processing Factors
Ram L. Chugh North Country Research & Public Service Award
- 1st Place:
Aaron Charlack, Development of Green High School Chemistry Labs
- 2nd Place:
Tabitha Brown, “My Own My Ever Loving Arvilla”: Personal Correspondence Brings Life to History
- 3rd Place:
Cara Aguirre, Global Climate Change Influences Wine Production and Tourism in Northern New York
Frederick Kilmer Student Research Award - Sciences First Place (Tie)
Monica Mack
Large-scale Purification of a Protein Complex Involved in Protein Degradation from Yeast
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Fathima Nazeer
$200
Alex Hofler
Effect of a Protein Degradation Factor Mutant on mRNA Processing Factors
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Fathima Nazeer
$200
Frederick Kilmer Student Research Award - Sciences Third Place
Nicholas Flint
Probing the Interactions Between the Nuclear Receptor Coactivator-4 and Ferritin
Faculty Mentor: Probing the Interactions Between the Nuclear Receptor Coactivator-4 and Ferritin
$50
Frederick Kilmer Student Research Award - Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences First Place
Zaine Roberts
Spirituality and Coping with Distress in Indigenous Students
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Claire Starrs
$200
Ram Chugh North Country Service & Research Award - First Place
Elizabeth Norkevich
Profiling Human Skulls from a Taxidermy Shop in St. Lawrence County, New York
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nasser Malit
$250
Ram Chugh North Country Service & Research Award - Second Place (Tie)
Lauryn Czyzewski
Understanding the Champlain Canal in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Hadley Kruczek-Aaron & Dr. Jessica Rogers
$150
Madison Cleveland
Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Populations and Movement Patterns Within St. Lawrence County
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Glenn Johnson
$150
Graduate Student Award
Lindsay Dingman, Ciera Jock, Brytney Laird, Allison McConlogue
Frankenreads: A Public Humanities Event Celebrating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Wilson
$200
Provost's Award for Excellence in Student Research
Shannon Mattice
Maria van Rensselaer and the Power of Dutch Widowhood
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sheila McIntyre
$500
Othman Ladan
The Difference in Perception of Breast Cancer Among Muslim Women in Ghana
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christopher Torres
$500
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
Dr. Fathima Nazeer
$500