News from SUNY Oneonta
Andrew Schlottman of Stormville Receives Academic Achievement Award
ONEONTA, NY (05/25/2017)– Andrew Schlottman of Stormville, NY, was one of 54 outstanding SUNY Oneonta students selected to receive a 2017 Academic Achievement Award this spring. Each academic department or program selected one to three outstanding seniors to receive the award.
Schlottman received the Physics and Astronomy Department award.
To be considered for the award, a student must have a minimum grade-point average of 3.5 in his or her major and must demonstrate exceptional academic improvement over four semesters, as well as excellence in research; leadership and involvement in department, campus and community activities; and/or participation in academic and/or professional situation outside the college.
Schlottmann majored in physics with a concentration in engineering and a minor in mathematics. He received the Charles T. P. Wang Memorial Scholarship and the OAS Memorial Scholarship and was a member of the Sanford Society student math club. This past semester, using high-frame-rate video and Tracker software, he worked with three other students on a research project aimed at characterizing the Magnus and drag effects on a spinning spheroid traveling through the air. As a participant in SUNY Oneonta’s 3-2 engineering program, he will begin work on his mechanical engineering degree at Binghamton University this fall.
A liberal arts institution with a strong focus on undergraduate research and service learning, SUNY Oneonta consistently gains recognition for delivering excellence and value. The college has been named to Kiplinger’s list of “100 Best Values in Public Colleges” for 10 years running and sits at No. 12 on the 2017 U.S. News and World Report list of the best public institutions in the region. SUNY Oneonta enrolls 6,000 students in its 60 undergraduate and 14 graduate programs.
