College of Health Sciences
SUNY Poly Announces $750,000 Endowed Nursing Scholarship Through the Julia O. Wells Memorial Education Foundation
SUNY Poly and the Julia O. Wells Memorial Education Foundation, Inc. announced the establishment of a $750,000 permanently endowed scholarship that will help generations of nursing students pursue their education while strengthening the healthcare workforce across the Mohawk Valley and New York State.
Celebrating SUNY Poly’s First Utica Doctoral Graduates
For the very first time, SUNY Poly awarded doctoral degrees in Utica, celebrating the inaugural graduating class of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner DNP program. Stacey Flenory, Haley Szczepanik and Morgan Hawes have dedicated themselves to advancing healthcare, strengthening patient outcomes, and leading with compassion, expertise, and innovation.
SUNY Poly and SUNY College of Optometry Announce New Partnership to Expand Student Pathways and Experiential Learning Opportunities
This past spring, SUNY Poly announced a new partnership with SUNY College of Optometry, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed at a press conference earlier today on SUNY Poly’s campus.
SUNY Poly Students Conduct Real World Research on New York’s Cellphone Ban in Local High Schools
At SUNY Poly, students are not just learning research methods in the classroom. They are conducting research that addresses real world challenges and informs decisions in the communities they serve. Senior students in SUNY Poly’s Community & Behavioral Health (CBH) program recently completed one of the first local studies examining the early effects of New York State’s bell to bell cellphone ban in Oneida County high schools, providing valuable insights for educators, school leaders, and policymakers.
SUNY Poly Celebrates Graduate Nurse Practitioner Students at White Coat Ceremony
Last January, SUNY Poly proudly celebrated 88 graduate students in its Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner programs during a White Coat Ceremony, recognizing a major milestone in their academic and professional journeys.
Can AI Think Like a Nurse? Human Expertise Still Has the Edge, SUNY Poly Researchers Find
A recent study by Dr. Jerome Niyirora, Dr. Lynne Longtin, Dr. Cynthia Grabski, David Patrishkoff, and Andriana Semko compared machine learning models with human nursing experts to see how accurately each could classify nursing notes into standardized Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) categories.
* Also of note, the College of Health Sciences faculty were featured in 32 peer-reviewed journal publications, gave 47 presentations at international/national conferences, and were featured in four interviews on various modalities (TV, radio, podcasts, etc.)