Nicholas Noviasky receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2017 Mar 14

SUNY Oswego senior physics major Nicholas Noviasky of Sauquoit has received the 2017 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest student recognition through the State University system.

Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher invited Noviasky to an April 5 ceremony in Albany to recognize recipients. The award honors students who have best demonstrated and been recognized for their integration of academic excellence with other aspects of their lives, which may include leadership, campus involvement, athletics, career achievement, community service or creative and performing arts.

Noviasky is a recipient of a highly selective National Science Foundation internship last summer in materials science and engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He also co-authored a study on lithium-ion batteries, in submission to a peer-reviewed journal.

He is Physics Club vice president, Sigma Xi honor society member and won the Best Undergraduate Poster Award at the 2016 statewide meeting of the American Physical Society. His abstract has been accepted for a research poster at the 2017 APS meeting in New Orleans. Noviasky has volunteered the past four years for Friends & Neighbors, providing food and clothing in his home community.

"I plan to pursue a career in the semiconductor industry or to obtain a master's degree in mechanical engineering; I am applying to University at Buffalo, RIT and Binghamton University," Noviasky said.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2017, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2017 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges" and in its national list of "Green Colleges."

A 156-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.

Visit oswego.edu for more information.