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SUNY Purchase Alum Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria ’85 Named Distinguished Professor

SUNY Purchase alum Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria ’85 was named a CUNY Distinguished Professor—the highest academic honor at the City University of New York—for her cancer research.
Purchase Awarded Nearly $2M from USNSF

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will provide scholarships and support to 34 STEM students.
Two Seniors Receive SUNY’s Highest Student Achievement Award

Medha Chandwani ’25 and Carver Fell ’25 received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Professor Stephen Cooke Creates New Chemistry and the Illustrations to Explain It

Cooke’s research and artwork featured on covers of prestigious chemistry journals.
Sonia Seth: SUNY Chancellor’s Award Winner

Biology major and Chemistry minor Sonia Seth is one of two who earned the honors.
Can Clever Chemistry Eliminate Nuclear Waste?

Professor of Chemistry Stephen Cooke receives a $107,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Energy for uranium and thorium research.
Mackenzie Sky ’23 Researching Brain Cancer Treatments

The biology major interned this summer at the Columbia Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics.
Stephen Cooke Receives National Science Foundation Grant and Publishes His 100th Article

The associate professor of chemistry is part of a research team that received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.