Kestutis Bendinskas of the chemistry department recently rose to editor of the American Journal of Undergraduate Research, a peer-reviewed, open-source publication for student scholarly and creative work in a wide variety of fields. Provost Lorrie Clemo accepted the role of first sponsor of the multinational journal on SUNY Oswego’s behalf.
Joining Bendinskas on the independent journal’s production team are Anthony Contento of biological sciences as assistant editor, Rose Throop of publications as art and copy editor and Daniel Laird ’00 of Campus Technology Services as webmaster for the journal’s site, ajuronline.org.
The editorial board includes several faculty members from SUNY Oswego: biological sciences faculty David Dunn in physiology, Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan in developmental biology and Peter Newell in microbiology; Lisa Seppi, who specializes in art history; Steven Skubis in meteorology; and as an honorary board member, Clemo.