April 26, 2023

Top Stories

Two ESF Students Honored with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

ESF students Hadar Shimshon and Alexandra Walls received the 2023 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduating student by SUNY. They were honored for demonstrating the integration of academic excellence with other aspects of their lives, which may include leadership, campus involvement, community service, or the arts. 

Mighty Oak Monday: Yulei Xu

Yulei Xu came to ESF on a dual degree program with the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. How did a low-test score turn into his greatest success at ESF?

Staff Spotlight: Sean Hohm

Congratulations to Sean Hohm on his promotion to instructional support specialist. What keeps him interested in chemical engineering?

Pollen season likely to get longer from climate change

Dr. Don Leopold talks about the connection between climate change, pollen, and when you might be able to expect your allergies to kick in.

WRVO

CSMM Launches New York State Recycling System Needs Assessment Project

The Center for Sustainable Materials Management (CSMM) began a partnership with Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) to launch the process of conducting a statewide needs assessment and gap analysis for New York’s recycling system.

Ticks are back in Monroe County. Here's how to avoid the tiny pests

After a mild winter, warm weather has arrived and – with it – ticks. Dr. Brian Leydet explains why the ticks that people are already finding on their pets and in tall grass aren’t part of some population boom brought on by the recent non-winter.

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Breathing New Life Into Aquatic Dead Zones

SUNY’s Research Foundation highlights the innovative research being done by Dr. Karin Limburg, Dr. Roxanne Razavi, and Dr. Andrea Feldpausch-Parker are doing using fish eye lenses and earstones together with sophisticated models to reveal the impacts of low oxygen exposure (hypoxic “dead zones”) in lakes and oceans around the world.

Research Forward

Tune In: ESF Researchers Featured on Syracuse Speaks

Listen to WAER (88.3 FM) at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 27 for Syracuse Speaks featuring interviews with Dr. Sam Quinn and Molly Jacobson from ESF’s Restoration Science Center, and Dr. Rebecca Rundell from the Department of Environmental Biology as they talk about local climate change impacts and response. 

ESF Help Desk 

I have little knowledge of how my computer works, so when there’s a problem I cannot resolve, I go in person and ask our ESF Help Desk for assistance. 

I want to thank all the folks who are patient, kind, and computer competent for their help with my computer issues! Thank you, Jim Sahm, Christopher Palian, Jennifer Webb, Aaron Rounds, John Kaftan, Joe Pagcaliwagan, David Hubbell, Jonathan Owens, Andrew Houck, Stephen Waldron, Doug Contri, Tom Wilk, and all our amazing ESF students who are also employed there! 



Kevin Reynolds, motor vehicle operator

Jane Verostek I Associate Librarian

Congratulations to Jane Verostek! The art piece she had displayed in last year’s On My Own Time – Modern Mourning – was accepted into the New York statewide annual juried exhibit called Made In New York. Be sure to check out the exhibit in person at Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn through May 28 or online.

Zach Snyder | Social Media Manager

Patrice Fernandes, Hannah Pilkey | American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project 

Shout out to Zach Snyder for his awesome work managing strategy and content for ESF across all our social media channels!

Zach's most recent success was just yesterday for a video he conceived, produced, and edited for TikTok in collaboration with the American Chestnut Research + Restoration Project team.

And a shout-out to the American Chestnut team for helping us tell their story in a fun way! Patrice Fernandes was on camera and narrated while Hannah Pilkey engaged with commenters, answering questions and sharing in their excitement. 

In just 24 hours, the video resulted in:

• +117,000 views
• +20,000 likes
• 609 comments (nearly all of them are positive or neutral)
• +1,600 shares
• "Favorited" 899 times
• Grew ESF's TikTok following eight-fold!

You can check out the clip here.

It's impossible to predict what will trend on social media, and this is incredible reach and visibility for ESF! We use TikTok as a way to show snippets of research, student life, campus culture, and more at ESF.

Thank you, Zach and American Chestnut team!



Danielle Gerhart

Executive Director of Communications and Marketing

What's Happening on Campus

Happy Administrative Professionals Day!

ESF is celebrating National Administrative Professionals Day! Today – and every day – we recognize and celebrate the hard work and contributions of administrative professionals. We appreciate all that you do for our students and employees. 

Celebrating Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Join the ESF community for a celebration honoring the work of Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, MacArthur Fellow, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Monday, May 8 | 4 – 6 p.m. | Gateway Center

CNPE Hosts Decolonizing and Indigenizing Environmental Justice Lecture

Dina Gilio-Whitaker will present a public lecture “Decolonizing and Indigenizing Environmental Justice.” Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is an award-winning journalist and author of “As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock” and co-author with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz of “All the Real Indians Died Off’ and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans.”

Wednesday, April 26 | 5 – 6:30 p.m. | Gateway Center

Final Academic Governance Meeting Celebrates Faculty, Staff

Be sure to come to the final Academic Governance meeting of the semester. 

Wednesday, May 3 I 2:30 – 4 p.m. I Gateway Center

The meeting includes the annual Awards Ceremony with refreshments served after. 

Send a Note of Congratulations to the Class of 2023

The ESF Alumni Office will be posting congratulatory messages to the Class of 2023 at the Champagne Toast and on social media in the days leading up to Commencement. Wish our newest group of alumni well, or impart some words of wisdom as they enter this new phase in their lives. Your message can be directed toward an individual student or the entire group. Email alumni@esf.edu and they’ll post your note! Messages must be received by May 3.

Events

People can't come to your events if they don't know when they are! Remember to add them to the campus events calendar. And to find out what’s happening on campus this week visit the ESF Calendar and ESF Engage!



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