Madeline Donowsky receives Academic Achievement Award

2018 May 3

Madeline Donowsky of Webster, 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.

Donowsky received the Art 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.

Donowsky is an artist and designer. She will be doing course work next fall and her goal is to finish her credits with an international internship in graphic design in the spring of next year. Double majoring requires a large commitment to one’s course work and yet, in addition to always having an off-campus job, as extra-curricular design work Donowsky has designed business cards and materials for artists and musicians and done an App logo design for an eHealth Technologies Clinical Intelligence project. She has done wedding photography and runs a small jewelry business called Oneonta Crystals. This semester she is in the Collaborative Arts Projects class, which opened an exhibition in April, and also has work included in the Annual Juried Student exhibition. Both shows are currently on view in the Martin-Mullen Gallery and Annex in the Fine Arts Building.