ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Robert Barton
of Schenevus, a junior
Physics
major at the SUNY College at Oneonta, has received the 2007 Region I
ACT Student Initiative Award from the Association of Council Members
and College Trustees of State University of New York. Barton was
honored for his work with the College's
PR2EPS
summer science camp and his achievements at the College. He will
receive the award at a luncheon on October 27 at the Mohonk Mountain
House in New Paltz.
As a high school student in Schenevus, Robert Barton explored his
interest in science in the PR2EPS summer science camp at
SUNY-Oneonta. He enrolled as a freshman Physics major at the College
in 2005 with support from the Charles T. P. Wang Scholarship for
Physics majors, an Oneonta Presidential Scholarship, and a Clark
Foundation Scholarship, all earned based on his exceptional academic
record in high school.
As a freshman, Barton volunteered in the College's science
tutoring center, which was established through the PR2EPS
program, tutoring students in General Chemistry I and II and
initiating review sessions for major exams. His volunteer work in
the tutoring center continues today, and he has expanded his efforts
to include students in Physics, Calculus, and Chemistry.
He was also hired by the College's
Center for Academic
Development and Enrichment to tutor students in many courses in
the sciences and mathematics. In the summer of 2006, he returned to
the PR2EPS summer science camp to work as a counselor in
the program.
As a second-semester freshman, Barton developed a student-faculty
research proposal entitled "Video-Based Motion Analysis: Detecting
the Onset of Turbulent Flow," which was selected for funding through
the College's Grant
Program for Student-Faculty Research and Creative Activity.
Working with Physics Professor Paul French, Barton completed his
research and presented a poster session at Student Research Day
2006. In the same semester, he and his co-investigators presented a
poster session entitled "Video-Based Motion Analysis: Determination
of the Drag Coefficient" at the New York State conference of the
American Physical Society, where the poster was awarded first-place
honors. At the organization's fall conference, Barton and his
co-investigators presented "Measurement and Correction of Angular
Distortion in Video-Based Motion Analysis," which also earned first
place in the poster competition.
Based on his exceptional work in the Student-Faculty Research
Program, he was selected as the presenter at the Faculty Convivium,
a quarterly gathering through which SUNY-Oneonta faculty highlight
and share their professional research with their colleagues. He and
Dr. French shared their award-winning work on "Determining the Onset
of Turbulent Flow Using Video-Based Motion Analysis."
As a sophomore, Barton was a presenter at a meeting of the
SUNY-Oneonta College Council, where he discussed the PR2EPS
program and the PR2EPS summer camp from the perspective
of both a student and a counselor.
In the fall semester of 2006, Barton was the only first-semester
sophomore named to the select list of the College's "Best and
Brightest." He has been named to the Provost's List three times and
the Dean's List four times.
The annual ACT Student Initiative Award recognizes a student or
student group that identified a need on campus or in the community
and initiated a solution to address that need.
The Association of Council
Members and College Trustees promotes Council effectiveness,
constructive government relations, and advocacy for quality public
higher education in SUNY.
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