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  • <div class="columns large-12"> <a href="/live/news/2723-graduating-student-leaders-earn-top-honors" class="feature-image"> <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,616/1446_honors_awards_2.rev.1651515275.webp 1x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,616/1446_honors_awards_2.rev.1651515275.jpg 1x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,616/1446_honors_awards_2.rev.1651515275.jpg" alt="Matthew Too and his family at the 2021 Honors and Awards Ceremony"/> </picture> </a> <div class="story"> <span class="category"> <span class="lw_item_category lw_student-news">Student News</span> </span> <h3> <a href="/live/news/2723-graduating-student-leaders-earn-top-honors">Graduating Student Leaders Earn Top Honors</a> </h3> <p> Meet the Class of 2022 graduates who have been honored with the college’s most prestigious student awards. </p> </div> </div>
  • <div class="columns large-12"> <a href="/live/news/2721-how-one-family-preserved-ukrainian-culture" class="feature-image"> <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,616/1443_Library_photo_by_Richard_Margolis_LiveWhale.rev.1651505559.webp 1x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,616/1443_Library_photo_by_Richard_Margolis_LiveWhale.rev.1651505559.jpg 1x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,616/1443_Library_photo_by_Richard_Margolis_LiveWhale.rev.1651505559.jpg" alt="Photo of Wolodymyr “Mirko” Pylyshenko in his library taken by Richard Margolis and shared with SUNY Brockport by Pylyshenko’s daughter Katja Kolcio."/> </picture> </a> <div class="story"> <span class="category"> <span class="lw_item_category lw_alumni-updates">Alumni Updates</span> <span class="lw_comma">,</span> <span class="lw_item_category lw_diversity">Diversity</span> <span class="lw_comma">,</span> <span class="lw_item_category lw_fine-arts">Fine Arts</span> <span class="lw_comma">,</span> <span class="lw_item_category lw_library">Library</span> <span class="lw_comma">,</span> <span class="lw_item_category lw_philanthropy">Philanthropy</span> </span> <h3> <a href="/live/news/2721-how-one-family-preserved-ukrainian-culture">How One Family Preserved Ukrainian Culture</a> </h3> <p> Longtime emeriti couple spent decades collecting thousands of pieces of Ukrainian literature that were banned by the Soviet Union. Their work is now in jeopardy. </p> </div> </div>
  • <div class="columns large-12"> <a href="/live/news/2738-when-life-hands-you-lemons-make-pound-cake" class="feature-image"> <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,617/1463_mama-js-lemon-pound-cake-alumni-brittany-smiley-jones-8.rev.1651609452.webp 1x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,617/1463_mama-js-lemon-pound-cake-alumni-brittany-smiley-jones-8.rev.1651609452.jpg 1x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/91/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1095,617/1463_mama-js-lemon-pound-cake-alumni-brittany-smiley-jones-8.rev.1651609452.jpg" alt="Brittany Jones ’15 showing her lemon pound cake."/> </picture> </a> <div class="story"> <span class="category"> <span class="lw_item_category lw_alumni-updates">Alumni Updates</span> <span class="lw_comma">,</span> <span class="lw_item_category lw_philanthropy">Philanthropy</span> </span> <h3> <a href="/live/news/2738-when-life-hands-you-lemons-make-pound-cake">When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Pound Cake</a> </h3> <p> <p> Alum combines family recipe and Brockport education to launch a sweet business.</p> </p> </div> </div>

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Transportation Options for Students

Learn more about the options available for students in need of transportation to fulfill academic requirements.

Reminder: Purchase Your Express Shuttle Permit

With Residence Drive going offline for the 2022-23 academic year, Parking & Transportation has added convenient campus-wide stops for its new Express Shuttle service.

Six Things to Know About Course Migration from Blackboard to Brightspace

Learn more about courses and course content as Brockport moves to the new learning management system called Brightspace.

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Broadcasting Professor Wins a Silver Telly Award

Journalism, Broadcasting, and Public Relations professor Virginia Orzel’s film on dementia, The Fight for Your Life, won a Silver Telly Award. It was named the best Non Broadcast Low Budget film (under $700/ minute) in the 43rd Annual Telly Awards.

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Theatre Production Receives the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award

The Department of Theatre and Music Studies Fall 2021 production of “Water by the Spoonful” will receive a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award at the 2022 KCACTF National Awards Ceremony on May 21, 2022.

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Put Your Money Where Your Math Is

The Department of Mathematic’s Integration Bee provides an opportunity to compete with other students to win cash. This year, Matthew Too came in first place winning $200 and the Integration Bee trophy.

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Improving Energy Efficiency & Computational Abilities of Computer Chips

Professor Zachary Robinson, alongside four students, published a collaborative paper about the neuromorphic computing material niobium dioxide and its potential impact when incorporated in computer chips.

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Four Students Featured in Mathematics Magazine

The most recent issue of Mathematical Reflections, an online magazine for students and others interested in mathematical discovery, names four Brockport students who solved some of the journal’s challenging problems.

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Women & Gender Studies Students Publish Volume 11 of Dissenting Voices

Dissenting Voices is a faculty-reviewed Ejournal featuring capstone projects of Women and Gender Studies Senior Seminar students. Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies Dr. Barb LeSavoy is faculty and Editor in Chief and the Managing Editor is Pat Maxwell, BITS Project Manager.

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History Students Help Edit US Intellectual History Book Roundtable

History students worked as editorial assistants on a book roundtable for the blog of the Society for US Intellectual History, gaining skills in historical analysis, research, editing, multimedia publication, and project management.

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Brockport Summer Learning Celebrates Another Successful Year

Brockport Summer Learning is well into their five-week program and the students have been exploring various aspects of identity, community, and connection through this summer’s theme “I am…We are…”

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New Camp Abilities Started in Switzerland

Distinguished Service Professor Lauren Lieberman and four undergraduate Brockport students helped to start a new Camp Abilities in Switzerland in collaboration with Fribourg University. Samantha Benzel, Lindsay Allen, Olivia Schaeber, and Daniel Behrend traveled to Switzerland and helped to coach the athletes from Switzerland and Ukranian refugees.

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