Student kudos

Satvik Sethi, a sophomore in the School of Management (SOM) majoring in business, was named by Mental Health America among the 15 top students to impact mental health on campus. He was also featured in Next Gen Summit’s Entrepreneur Spotlight, and in the SOM annual magazine, Reaching Higher, about an app that he developed called Runaway App, that aims to offer virtual support to people who are in distress, whether they’re battling a mental-health issue or just in need of a friend.

Justine Lewis, a doctoral student in the College of Community and Public Affairs, is being named one of only 25 Hilton Prize Coalition Fellows. The program seeks to develop a robust pipeline of leaders who posess not only subject matter skills and expertise, but also the soft leadership skills needed to succeed in the workplace, and who understand and value the importance of collaboration for humanitarian and development organizations to increase effectiveness throughout the sector. In partnership with Help Age USA.

Hadir Elsayed, a systems science and industrial engineering major, earned the best undergraduate student paper award, “Failure Factors in Lean Six Sigma Implementation in Healthcare” Hadir Elsayed and D.L. Santos, at the 6th Annual World Conference of the Society for Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Aliona Tsypes, a doctoral student in clinical psychology who previously won the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award, won the 2017 American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award.

Physics major Bradley Phelps has received a Department of Defense Smart Scholarship. The DOD will help pay Phelps’ tuition for his final two years of education and he will work for the DOD for two years after graduation. After two years of service, he will be able to stay on as an employee if he so chooses. For more information on the scholarship, go online.

Biochemistry major Alpha Bah is the first student from Binghamton University to be an American Chemical Society (ACS) Scholar. The ACS awards renewable scholarships to underrepresented minority students who want to enter the fields of chemistry or chemistry-related fields. Awards, based on need and available funding, are given to qualified students. African American, Hispanic or American Indian high-school seniors or college freshman, sophomores or juniors pursuing a college degree in the chemical sciences or chemical technology are eligible to apply.

Courtney Kleeschulte, a doctoral student in biological sciences, received a travel award from the American Society of Microbiology to attend the American Society of Microbiology Microbe 2017 international conference held in New Orleans.

Two medieval studies students participated in the 12th Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, held at Moravian College Dec. 2. Victoria Zisser presented a paper titled “The Romantic Art of Aggression: Courtly Love and Violent Language,” and Hannah M. Gibbs presented one titled “The Shared Construct of Holy Man in Late Antiquity.” Both students received travel support to attend the conference from Binghamton’s Undergraduate Research Center.

Tamar Ashdot, a Harpur Edge student associate, was selected to have a poem published in New York’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology.

Daniel Mcmonagle, a double major in linguistics and Chinese, won first place in the American Continents (North and South) division and fourth place in the world in the 2017 “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Language and Culture Competition. Read more online.