Katrina Fandrich receives Academic Achievement Award

2018 May 3

Katrina Fandrich of Clay, NY, was one of more than 50 outstanding SUNY Oneonta students selected to receive a 2018 Academic Achievement Award this spring. Each academic department or program selected one to three outstanding seniors to receive the award.

Fandrich received the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 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.

Fandrich’s academic excellence has earned her a spot on the Provost’s List, and she has won a number of awards, including the Susan Sutton Smith award, the Richard Siegfried award, the M.I. Dubins scholarship, and the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She has been a peer tutor in Calculus and a student intern at the National Weather Service office in Taunton, Massachusetts. She is a member of her department’s Student Advisory Council, in which she serves as an advisor to the department Chair. Fandrich was a participant in the SUNY STEM Research Passport Program in summer 2015. She is currently a recipient of research funding from an NSF S-STEM grant. Katrina has performed original scientific research on hurricane stage durations and she presented that work in New Orleans last December at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where very few of the participants are undergraduates.