Since its inception over two decades ago, the Learning & Research Fair has been a wonderful opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to share their research, teaching/learning innovations, creative efforts, and scholarly achievements.
Visit the Fair to get to know your colleagues and students better, learn about and celebrate their scholarly contributions and accomplishments, share your knowledge and expertise, and suggest possible new projects and future collaborations.
Student presenters at the Fair are eligible to compete for awards administered by the Lougheed Center for Applied Learning.
All students (and faculty submitting course entries) will submit abstracts and poster files.
- Staff in the Lougheed Center for Applied Learning will post each entry on the L&RF website. The website will serve as the program for the live event.
- Students who wish to be considered for one of our research cash awards will be asked to engage in judging process.
- In addition to the poster, they will submit a short video, audio file, or PowerPoint about their research, to be posted on the L&RF website.
- Judges will consider the quality of students’ abstracts, posters, and virtual interactions in their scoring.
- Winners will be announced on campus social media, by email, posted on the Fair website, and posted on this website.
Please direct any questions to (315) 267-2507 or appliedlearning@potsdam.edu. We look forward to your continued support and participation in the Learning and Research Fair
2025 Learning & Research Fair
May 2025 (date TBD)
10 a.m - 2 p.m.
Barrington Student Union - MPR
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