Celebrating our Outstanding 2021-2022 Graduate Students
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 awardees for the Distinguished Professor Award (DPA). The Distinguished Professors Fund was created by generous donors dedicated to advancing graduate education and scholarship at SUNY Brockport.
The DPA is open for application twice annually, once in the fall semester and once in the spring. Deadlines are kept up to date on the Scholar and Grants Development Office webpage.
Congratulations to the following students, their respective faculty mentors, and departments!
Name: Natalia Lisina, Department of Dance.
Project Title: “From dead spaces to live places: The transforming power of dialogue in site-specific dance.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mariah Maloney.
Name: Sarah Boroski, Department of Counselor Education.
Project Title: “Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes toward Police Brutality and Their Effect on Mental Health.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rafael Outland
Name: Heather Milligan, Department of Counselor Education.
Project Title: “Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes toward Police Brutality and Their Effect on Mental Health.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rafael Outland
Name: Brianna Dudley, Department of Biology.
Project Title: “Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Signaling and Perilipin Association in Adipocytes.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laurie Cook
Name: Colin Clark, Department of Environmental Science and Ecology.
Project Title: “Do lake trout eggs and free embryos acquire thiamine during development?”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jacques Rinchard
Name: Nicholas Farese, Department of Environmental Science and Ecology.
Project Title: “Assessing Otsego Lake lake trout diets using stomach content, fatty acid analysis, and stable isotope ratios.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jacques Rinchard
Name: Thomas Blowers, Department of Environmental Science and Ecology.
Project Title: “Does vitamin E concentration relate to vitamin B1 concentration in lake trout eggs?”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jacques Rinchard
Name: Andrew Spagnuolo, Department of Environmental Science and Ecology.
Project Title: “Historical ecological changes in Hemlock and Conesus Lakes through sediment geochemical profiling.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Richards
Name: Rene Belleville, Department of Environmental Science and Ecology.
Project Title: “Assessing survivorship of seeded and planted species within restored Great Lakes coastal wetlands.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rachel Schultz
Name: Bonnie Rose Thompson, Department of Psychology.
Project Title: “Discrepant Parenting & Adolescent Alcohol Use.”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Caitlin Abar