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Name: Steve Cammisa
Graduated: 1990
Entry Date: 9/8/99
Email: jasper@clarityconnect.com
Address: Vestal, NY
Occupation: Environmental Specialist
New York State Department of Transportation
Biography: I received a M.S. in environmental planning from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania and have worked for New York State since 1992.
Name: Avenue Marie Campala (formerly Tina Marie Campala)
Graduated: 1988
Entry Date: 6/30/02
Email: capriccietto@lycos.com
Address: 419 E 23rd ave apt B, Anchorage, AK 99503
Occupation: professional job hopper
Biography: Since leaving Cortland I have been wandering, working odd jobs and seeing what I can see. I lived for a while in Washington
and Oregon and discovered I love the Pacific Northwest. In 1996 I left the Pacific Northwest to see what the Far North was
about, got a job on a commercial fishing boat... and although I didn't make a successful career out of fishing, Alaska got in my
blood and I've decided to stay here. A few years ago I married a man with the last name of Leach. We didn't last long as a couple, but long enough for my last
name to be changed on my Cortland records. I have returned to my maiden name of Campala. Somewhere along my travels
I came up with the idea to change my first name. For years now I have been known as Avenue. It fits.
I hope my friends and acquaintances from Cortland are well and happy. Feel free to contact me.
Avenue Campala
Name: Matt Chapman
Graduated: 1998
Entry Dates: 5/22/07; 3/8/08
Email: chapmamatt@gmail.com
Address: 387 Whittier Road, Spencerport NY 14559
Occupation: Science Teacher
Biography: Right after Cortland, I worked for the Davey Tree
Expert Company as a tree surgeon, and then landscape foreman. I got bored of
that, then framed houses for awhile. Then, I decided I didn't want to work 12
hours a day and went back to get a teaching degree. Since then I have taught
middle school science and most recently chemistry. I love the challenge of
teaching one of the toughest subjects in high school. I now have two crazy kids
Gavman (Gavin) is 4, and Kenzie my daughter is 2 1/2. I spend most of my nights
and weekends playing with them or working at a small nursery growing/selling
plants and trees.
Name: Bill Chang
Graduated: 1974
Entry Date: 6/30/02
Email: bchang@atsva.com
Address: 12105 Fort Craig Dr., Woodbridge VA 22192
Occupation: Software Engineer
Biography:Received a degree in Environmental Sciences from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Spent three years at EPA in
Washington, D.C. Moved on to computer programming in '85 and stayed with it ever since.
Name: Alex Ciota
Graduated: 1998
Entry Date: 3/29/00
Email: aciota@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Occupation: Medical Research-Harvard Med.School
Name: Brian Conlin
Graduated: 2001
Entry Date: 11/7/01
Email: conlin87@yahoo.com
Address: 6133 Reger Drive, Lockport, NY 14094
Occupation: Research Assistant, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Biography: I have been working in a Research Lab at BTI. The lab is a plant tissue culture facility primarily dealing with the production of
transgenic potato and tomato plants.
Name: Jennifer Conrad
Graduated: 2004
Entry Date: 3/5/06
Email: jenniferlconrad@yahoo.com
Occupation: zoo keeper
Biography: After leaving Cortland, I went to ESF in
Syracuse and graduated with a BS in Environmental & Forest Biology. I am
currently living 45 miles north of New York City working as a Zoo Keeper at the
Bear Mountain Zoo.
Name: Liza Conrad
Graduated: 2000
Entry Date: 7/18/07
Email: lconrad28@yahoo.com
Occupation: Postdoctoral scholar
Biography: After graduation I worked for 2 years as a Research
Assistant/Lab Manager in Tom Brutnell's lab at the Boyce Thompson Institute for
Plant Research. In 2002 I began my PhD in the Department of Plant Breeding and
Genetics at Cornell University. I majored in Plant Genetics with minors in
International Agriculture and Plant Molecular Biology. My research focused on
transposable elements in maize. I graduated from Cornell in May 2007 and am now
working as a postdoc at the University of California Davis. My current research
is looking at female gametophyte development in rice.
Name: Thomas Crary
Graduated: 2006
Entry Date: 8/8/07
Email: ridequik@yahoo.com
Occupation: Custom woodworker and metal fabricator for
Lavelle's Scenic Studio
Biography: I took a year to live in Cortland, thinking that I was going
to take grad classes. Having gone into cortland with the intent of becoming a
chiropractor and having that dream set sail around my junior year; I was lost to
say the least. Now, free of a minimum wage job, I am building sets for company
promotions and TV shows in NYC. I know it has very little to do with my degree,
but it is a means to an end. I am gaining skills with woodworking and metal
fabrication. Once I get the funds; I plan on building eco-friendly houses.
Geothermal heating systems, recycled materials, and the like, will be included
in the houses. So if anyone wants a house in about 3-5 years, in ithaca or
vermont, you know who to call. Great site, I will keep in touch. Cheers, Tom.
Name: Liz Csikar
Graduated: 2003
Entry Date: 1/17/04
Email: Trill1an@msn.com
Address: 200 E. Southern Ave., Apt 143,
Tempe, AZ 85282
Occupation: Financially impaired grad student.
Name: Shaun Cumm
Graduated: 2001
Entry Date: 3/14/04
Email: cummst@lemoyne.edu
Address: 14 Lafond Dr., Gansevoort, NY
12831
Occupation: PA Student
Biography: I began PA school in the Summer of 2002,
and will graduate in the Fall of 2004. I am currently on rotations working in
the ER. Joanne and I got engaged on a 2002 trip Cross-Country and are planning
on getting married in 2005.
Name: Doug Cutter
Graduated: 1973
Entry Date: 2/15/03
Email: cutterx5@aol.com
Address: 2900 Glendower Circle,
Midlothian, Va. 23113
Occupation: Primary Care Sports Medicine
Physician
Biography: I am the medical director of a
sports medicine clinic in Richmond, Va. I have travelled internationally with
the USA men's wrestling and indoor field hockey teams. I teach residents in
family practice, pediatrics, physiatry, and physical therapy students.
Name: Elisabet Dahl (now Elisabet Jensen)
Graduated: 1990
Entry Date: 7/15/02
Email: Whispermail@Earthlink.net
Address: 5017 Whisper Wind Drive, Wichita Falls, TX 76310
Occupation: Registered Nurse
Biography: After leaving Cortland I attended Fairleigh Dickinson University's accelerated nursing program to receive my BSN in 1991.
After graduation I received my officer commission for the U.S. Air Force, where I worked as a nurse for 4 years at Keesler
AFB, Biloxi MS. July '95 I separated from active duty as a 1st lieutenant and moved to Denmark, where I had to repeat
nursing school in order to receive licensure. Summer of '98 we were stationed at Sheppard AFB, Texas where I have worked
as an Emergency Room Nurse. Summer '02 we are moving to Cold Lake, AB Canada. I will take my Nursing Board Exam in
October and hope to land a position in the local ER, once again.
Name: Todd Dancesia
Graduated: 2003
Entry Date: 2/26/04
Email: greengopher7@aol.com
Address: 101 Prospect St. Binghamton
NY, 13905
Occupation: High SchoolScience Teacher, Afton
Central School
Biography: Since graduating from Cortland I have
been teaching Earth Science and Chemistry at ACS. It has been a great experience
and a lot of fun.
Name: Michelle Dean
Graduated: 2005
Entry Date: 3/15/07
Email: michelle.l.dean@uconn.edu
Address: 154 Chaffeeville Rd., Storrs, CT 06268
Occupation: Graduate Assistant
Biography: I have to say i'm a bit of a traitor. I currently am
graduate student at the University of Connecticut going for my PhD in Chemistry
with research mainly focused in the area of Chemical Education working under
Tyson Miller. As a part of this program I am also required to do extensive wet
lab research as well. Currently I'm a research assistant working for Christian
Bruckner in a synthetic organic lab making various porphyrin derivatives.
However, I guess it all comes back to how they can be used in biological
systems.
Also as a side note- I am on the GSSPC (Graduate Student Symmposium Planning
Committee- a symposium at the ACS national meetings.) So be sure to join us if
you're there at the 2008 Philly Meeting
Name: JoAnne DeLisle
Graduated: 2002
Entry Date: 3/14/04
Email: delislejoa@sgfallssd.org
Address: 345 Mott Road, Gansevoort, NY
12831
Occupation: Middle School Science Teacher
Biography: I began teaching at South Glens
Falls Middle School in September 2002. I am in my second year of teaching.
Currently, I am working on my masters and will graduate in December. Shaun and I
are going to get married in 2005.
Name: Joe DeSantis
Graduated: 2005
Entry Date: 7/25/07
Email: JDesant27@hotmail.com
Occupation: 10th grade Living Environment and 7th grade
Life Science teacher in the Bayport-Blue Point School District on Long Island.
Biography: I've been teaching and working on my masters
at Stony Brook University, and fishing... A lot of fishing
Name: Linell Dewey (now Linell Machold)
Graduated: 1977
Entry Date: 1/19/00
Email: sllm@sunyit.edu
Occupation: Instructional Support Technician A/S
Biography: The courses and personal experiences I had while attending Cortland opened the
doors to developing my Biology skills in many areas. I have worked in research in
the fields of Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer and Aging, Recombinent DNA and Molecular Biology.
I have taught at the college level in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Instrumental Analysis.
Name: Jonathan Dilgen
Graduated: 1999
Entry Date: 12/10/04
Email: jdilgen@hotmail.com.
Address: 28 S. Allen St. Apt. 3, Albany, NY 12208
Occupation: Graduate Student
Biography: I worked as a lab tech for
about three years after graduating. The last lab I worked in belonged to a
neuroscientist at the Wadsworth Center here in Albany. From there I became very
interested in basic science research as well as the role it plays in shaping
medicine. So I decided I wanted to get a graduate degree and possibly go on to
medical school. I am currently a 3rd yr Ph.D. student at Albany Med in
Neuroscience. My research
interests include investigating how dopamine plays a role in schizophrenia
utilizing intracellular recording in the nucleus accumbens with stimulation in
the prefrontal cortex and the ventral tegmental area.
Name: Rich Donlick
Graduated: 1997
Entry Date: 11/14/03
Email: DRdonlick@aol.com
Address: 100 Old York Rd, Jenkintown PA 19046
Occupation: Medical School
Biography: After leaving Cortland I entered a Master's Program in
Biomedical Sciences program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. PCOM is
the largest Osteopathic medical school in the US, and it is the fourth largest medical
school overall. Since my last update, I have graduated from medical school and
I'm doing a residency in internal medicine with the Mercy
Catholic Hospital System.
Name: Isidore Doroski
Graduated: 1977
Entry Date: 9/9/01
Email: izzystar@optonline.net
Address: 44 Sunrise Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901
Occupation: Senior Public Health Sanitarian
(Environmental Inspector - specializing in Waste Water Treatment)
Biography:My first job out of Cortland was a research scientist at Suny StonyBrook 1978 - 1979, then I was a Sewage Treatement Plant
Operator from 1979 - 1980 , obtained my Grade 2A operators Certificate, Then I joined the Suffolk Co. Health Dept. in
1980 as a Public Health Sanitarian doing industrial waste and sewage treatment plant inspections. In 1998 I got a promotion
as a Senior Sanitarian specializing in Waste Water Treatment which I am now still doing and I am very happy in this field.
During my years at Suffolk County I have done many interesting things including criminal environmental investigations with the
DA office, participated in many environmental emergencies, flown in the police chopper, inspected the wreckage of TWA flight
800, testified in over 20 criminal environmental trials and been interviewed on TV several times. Cortland was a great
education for me and helped me get to where I am today.
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Name: Kevin A. Douglass Graduated: 1999 Entry Dates: 9/27/04; 2/10/06; 1/1/08 Email: kevinadouglass@yahoo.com Address: 3 Crandall St., Cortland, NY 13045 Occupation: Lecturer, Biology Department at SUNY Cortland Biography: 2004 Entry: After graduation I worked in Homer for as a quality control chemist. In 2003 I completed my M.S. in Wildlife Biology and Management from SUNY ESF. My thesis was a behavioral study related to supplemental feeding of white-tailed deer in the Adirondacks. I married Jamie Bowden ('00) in 2002 and she teaches 2nd grade in Marathon. We celebrated the birth of our first child (Tanner) in April 2004. I am currently working for the federal govenment as a Fisheries Biological Technician for the Tunison Lab of Aquatic Science (USGS). 2006 Entry: I worked for the federal govenment as a Fisheries Biological Technician for the Tunison Lab of Aquatic Science (USGS) from 2003-2005. I am currently working on my MS in secondary education at SUNY Cortland. In the fall of 2005, I began teaching biology labs full-time at SUNY Cortland. I teach labs for Bio 110-111 and Zoology. Jamie and I had our second child, Mallory Christine, on January 9, 2006. I am keeping busy and having lots of fun with my family and at work. 2008 Entry: After working at Cortland College for 1 1/2 years, I completed my student teaching and was hired as an 8th grade Physical Science teacher at Homer Jr High School in Homer, NY. I absolutley love teaching and am very happy to be where I am. At Homer, I am also a Supervisor for the Science Club which is geared towards student activities related to all types of science. My wife also took a position teaching 1st grade grade at Homer this past year. Our children are now 3 1/2 years old and 2 years old. We are having lots of fun and keeping very busy these days. |
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Name: Shawn Drew
Graduated: 1995
Entry Date: 6/28/02
Email: shawn.drew@tap.com
Occupation: Pharmaceutical Representative
: After I graduated, I moved to Roanoke,VA and worked for a Bio-Tech company.
I worked there for 4 years as a senior research technician. I then accepted a job, in 2000, from TAP Pharamceuticals to become a Sales Representative back in my home area of upstate
NY. I visit physicians offices throughout upstate NY and update them on some of the latest pharmaceuticals in the market.
I currently reside in Horseheads, NY.
Name: Julie Dykeman, now Julie Melançon
Graduated: 1998
Address: P.O. Box 98, Esopus, NY
12429
Entry Date: 2/6/03; 2/3/06
Email: julie_dykeman@yahoo.com
Occupation: Stormwater Specialist for the NYSDEC and
Schenectady Co. SWCD
Biography: After leaving Cortland I spent some time working
for an environmental consulting firm in New Jersey and then for the Dutchess
County Soil and Water Conservation District back in New York. In January 2004 I
began a new career as a land use planner for The Chazen Companies, a regional
engineering, surveying and planning firm. I am working with municipalities to
help them address water quality and land use planning issues, as well as with
developers to help them design and construct new buildings with the least
environmental impact possible. I earned my CPESC in 2002, and am a member of
both my Town Environmental Board and the Ulster County Environmental Management
Council. I am married, have two dogs, and live right near the Hudson River. I
hope all is well with everyone, and would love to hear from any old lab partners
out there!
2/3/06 Entry: Hi everybody! I have changed jobs again and now work as
a Stormwater Specialist in NYSDEC Region 3. I work with municipalities as well
as design professionals to ensure they meet New York State stormwater
regulations. I know it sounds obscure, but I love it. I also earned my CPESC in
2002. I am Chair of my Town Environmental Board and a member of both my Town
Waterfront Advisory Board and the Ulster County Environmental Management
Council. I am married, and our big news is that we have just celebrated the
arrival of our first child, a little girl, Lindsay. We have two dogs, and live
right near the Hudson River. I hope all is well with everyone, and would love to
hear from any old lab partners out there!
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