{"id":4522,"date":"2016-04-11T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:47:06","slug":"meet-fscs-four-chancellors-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/04\/11\/meet-fscs-four-chancellors-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet FSC’s Four Chancellor’s Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Chancellor

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Kimberly Gleason, Marguerite Fagella<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chancellor

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Alexa Toyas, Marguerite Fagella<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chancellor

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Kristin Bonura, Marguerite Fagella<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kinza

Kinza Kasher<\/p><\/div>\n

The Chancellor\u2019s Award for Student Excellence, one of the highest prizes given by SUNY, has been awarded to four FSC students:<\/p>\n

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  • Kristin Bonura ’16, nursing<\/li>\n
  • Kinza Nadeem Kasher ’16, visual communications<\/li>\n
  • Kimberly Gleason ’16, applied psychology<\/li>\n
  • Alexa Toyas ’15, professional communications\/valedictorian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Chancellor\u2019s Award is presented to those who have best demonstrated and been recognized for their integration of academic excellence with other aspects of their lives, such as leadership, campus involvement, athletics, career achievement, community service, or creative and performing arts.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis award is our way of saying \u2018thank you\u2019 to stand-out SUNY students whose achievements reflect their own impressive hard work as well as the support of their families and friends, and SUNY\u2019s world-class faculty and staff,\u201d said Chancellor Nancy Zimpher. \u201cThe 248 students we honor with this year\u2019s award have excelled academically, become role models on campus, and established themselves as leaders in the community.”<\/p>\n

    Kristin Bonura is a member of Sigma ThetaTau, has received President\u2019s and Dean\u2019s lists honors, has been active on the Student Nursing Association, and has completed missions to Guyana to work in remote areas to provide medical assistance. She currently works in the Huntington Hospital Emergency Department and is involved in the Nursing Honor Society and other peer mentor nursing programs.<\/p>\n

    Kimberly Gleason\u00a0has received President\u2019s and Dean\u2019s lists honors and served as treasurer of the Psychology Club. She also served as a leader in Psi Chi and the International Honor Society for Psychology. She maintained a 4.0 GPA during both semesters of 2014, and in the summer of 2015 was selected for Columbia University\u2019s RA Program.<\/p>\n

    Kinza Nadeem Kasher\u00a0has combined bioscience with her studies in visual communications. She has done extensive research on Multiple Sclerosis, held leadership roles on campus as a Rambassador, and had her work exhibited at the Babylon Arts Festival. Kinza has assisted Haitian immigrant families and maintains a GPA that keeps her on the Dean\u2019s and President\u2019s lists.<\/p>\n

    Alexa Artemis Toyas created a chapter of Hugs Across America at Farmingdale
    \nState College in January 2014, which provides teddy bears to children in crisis worldwide. She studied abroad in Athens, was inducted into the Golden Key International Honor\u00a0Society, received the Student Award for Academic Excellence, and was the valedictorian of her December 2015 graduating class. She also was a candidate for a Fulbright Scholarship\/ Teaching Assistant in Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Chancellor\u2019s Award for Student Excellence, one of the highest prizes given by SUNY, has been awarded to four FSC students: Kristin Bonura ’16, nursing Kinza Nadeem Kasher ’16, visual communications Kimberly Gleason ’16, applied psychology Alexa Toyas ’15, professional communications\/valedictorian The Chancellor\u2019s Award is presented to those who have best demonstrated and been recognized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}