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Event Announcement Associate Professor Donna Vogler of the Biology Department at the SUNY College at Oneonta has been awarded the College's 2006 Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence. Dr. Vogler will deliver the annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture, a presentation entitled "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water: A Global Assessment of the Natural Resources that Sustain Us," on Friday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center. Members of the community are invited to attend the presentation, and admission is complimentary. Vogler's talk will explore the ways in which we depend on our natural world for our well being. She will discuss our global "human footprint" as well as findings from the "Oneonta Footprint Project," a comprehensive exploration of the ecological impact of the city on the environment. Vogler will explore issues such as global climate change, the sustainability of natural resources, and designing a sustainable future. The twelfth recipient of the Susan Sutton Smith Prize, Dr. Vogler joined the faculty of the SUNY College at Oneonta in 2000. She has experience as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Pittsburgh, an instructor at several universities in Pennsylvania, and a botanist for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. She holds a Ph.D. in Botany from Penn State. Dr. Vogler is the author of a number of scholarly articles in journals such as the "Annals of Botany," "Evolution," the "International Journal of Plant Sciences," "Nature," "Ecology," and the "American Journal of Botany." She recently received a significant grant from the New York State Biodiversity Research Institute as principal investigator to conduct field surveys and produce vouchered specimens of vascular plants in Otsego and Montgomery counties, the first phase in initiating a state-wide effort to produce a more complete database of plant distributions in the state. Dr. Vogler has received a Faculty Research Grant and a Ford Grant for Faculty Research from the College, and she has collaborated with students on several Student-Faculty Research Grants. She serves as Chair of the Oneonta Susquehanna Greenway Committee and a board member of the Otsego County Conservation Association. The Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence, named in honor of the late SUNY- Oneonta professor of English, recognizes outstanding faculty achievement in research, scholarship, or art. The recipient is chosen from nominations submitted to a committee of faculty and administrators. The prize is made possible through an endowment created in memory of their daughter and her commitment to academic excellence by Dr. Thomas Smith and Mrs. Mary Smith. The Susan Sutton Smith Lecture will cap a day of events recognizing academic excellence at the College. At an awards breakfast, Dr. Vogler will receive the Smith Prize, and students with grade-point averages of 3.9 or above in the fall semester will be recognized with gift cards to purchase textbooks at the College store. |
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