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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The SUNY College at Oneonta will present
Student
Research Day on Tuesday, April 21, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the
ballroom of the Hunt College Union on campus. Eighty projects involving
approximately 150 students and 60 faculty sponsors from 25 different
departments will be presented. Admission is complimentary, and members of
the community are invited to attend.
The event will highlight research conducted by SUNY Oneonta students with
the guidance of faculty members. Student Research Day will include a keynote
address entitled "Forensics: An Entity at the Triple Point" at 1 p.m. by
1983 SUNY Oneonta alumnus Dr. Michael Sikirica, who will examine the state
of forensics and its identity and balance in relation to the disciplines of
science, medicine, and law.
Dr. Sikirica has been the medical examiner for Rensselaer County since
2001, and he operates Forensic Medical Services as a private practice,
serves as a coroner's pathologist for several upstate New York counties, and
is the founder and CEO of the independent DNA testing laboratory Forensic
Identification & Profiling Laboratory. Dr. Sikirica received his bachelor's
degree in biology with a minor in anthropology from SUNY Oneonta and went on
to the SUNY School of Medicine at Buffalo. He has written or co-authored
several articles published in forensic and neuropathology journals and
performed over 7,000 autopsy examinations. He served as medical morgue
supervisor for the 1989 EgyptAir Flight 990 aviation disaster and forensic
pathologist for the 2005 sinking of the Ethan Allen on Lake George.
From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., students will present their research projects
through poster sessions, computer displays, and discussions. The student
exhibits will cover a range of disciplines and topics, including the
following:
- Paige Hamilton, Rebecca Kennedy, Anne Bischoff, Brittany Higgins;
Faculty Sponsor: Lawrence T. Guzy (Psychology); "Unexpected Speed
Changes as a Function of a Mystery Hill on West Street, Oneonta, NY"
- Jessica Vecchione; Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Small (Foreign
Languages & Literatures); "Bienvenidos A Fleischmanns--An Immigrant
Community in Rural America"
- Katie Fox; Faculty Sponsors: George Hovis (English), Helga Berliner
(Women's & Gender Studies); "It's Elementary, My Dear Reader: Learning
the Methods of Mystery Writing"
- Molly Reed; Faculty Sponsor: Devin Castendyk (Earth Sciences);
"Quality Monitoring in the Headwaters of the Susquehanna River, Otsego
County, New York"
- Josh Merrill; Faculty Sponsor: Joseph Chiang (Chemistry &
Biochemistry); "Study of Sustainability and Sustainable Energy"
Many of the projects on display at Student Research Day were funded by
SUNY Oneonta's Student/Faculty Grant Program for Research and Creative
Activity, which enables students to conduct in-depth research in a major
area of interest under the guidance of a faculty mentor. The grants
program is funded by the College at Oneonta Foundation's unrestricted
endowment and administered by the College Senate Committee on Research.
Student Research Day is made possible through gifts and grants to the
College at Oneonta Foundation and is sponsored by the College Senate
Committee on Research, the Division of College Advancement, and the Grants
Development Office. More information about Student Research Day is available
from Kathy Meeker, Director of the SUNY Oneonta
Grants Development
Office, at (607) 436-2632.
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