Student Achievements
Undergraduate Grants & Awards
Our undergraduate student researchers have received competitive research grants and other awards, including:
- 2025:聽聽聽聽 Ayesh Mulla received a research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.
- 2024:听听听听 Amy Patel received a research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.
- 2023:聽聽聽聽 Ola Abozid received several grants from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, and a National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist award. Read about her successes here!
- 2023:聽聽聽聽 Stevie Ann Hill received a National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist award.

Student Conference Presentations
- Castro, C., Mahfouz, N. O., Prela, D., Mulla, A., Renu, S., & Alexander, R.G.聽(2025). “A review of fixational instability in ophthalmic disease.”聽Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 16-20, 2025, St. Petersburg, FL. Four student co-authors traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
- Alcindor, B., Patel, A., Ramachandra, L., Toribio, J., Sharkly, M. B., & Alexander, R.G.聽(2025). “Decreased eye movement is associated with perceived blurring of object boundaries in meditation.”聽Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 16-20, 2025, St. Petersburg, FL. L. One student author traveled to Florida to present this poster.
- Spiers, J., Patel, A., Alexander, K.E., & Alexander, R. G. (2025). “Burned out but still showing up: the college student experience.”聽鈥淯nconference鈥 presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, April 2-5, 2025, Denver, CO. Two student co-authors traveled to Denver to present this work.
- Mulla, A., Hill, S. A., Spiers, J.M., Swift, A., Hautsch, J., & Alexander, R.G. (2025). “Fans literally view images differently than non-fans.”聽Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, March 6-8, 2025, New York, NY.
- Abozid, A., Renu, S.K., Safonova, E., Spiers, J., Guerras-Solares, E., & Alexander, R.G. (2024). 鈥淢icrosaccades and ocular drift in ophthalmic and neurologic disease.鈥 Poster presented at the annual Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 17-22, 2024, St. Petersburg, FL. Four student presenters traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
- Hill, S. A., Spiers, J.M., Ramachandra, L., Mulla, A., Hautsch, J., & Alexander, R.G. (2024). 鈥淭he impact of fandom on image viewing.鈥 Poster presented at the annual Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 17-22, 2024, St. Petersburg, FL. Two student co-authors traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
- Dull, A., Borbon, B., Joseph, J., & Huey, M. (2023). 鈥淭he Impact of Religiosity as a Buffer to the Adverse Effects of Internet Susceptibility.鈥 Symposium presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), March 9-11, 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. Three undergraduate research assistants travelled to Brussels, Belgium, to present.
- Joseph, J., Borbon, B., Dull, A., & Huey, M. (2023). 鈥淗ow Religious Identity Buffers the Effects of Internet Susceptibility.鈥 Poster presented at the American Psychological Conference, May 25-28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.
- Velez, C., Shumskaya, A. & Huey, M. (2022). 鈥淥ptimizing the Remote Learning Environment.鈥 Poster presented at the American Psychological Science Convention, May 26-29, 2022, in Chicago, IL.
Student Research News
Dedicating Henry C. Foley Hall, Honoring Academic Innovation
At a renaming ceremony, a building on the Long Island campus was dedicated as Henry C. Foley Hall. 色界吧 also announced that it has formed a chapter of the national Academy of Inventors.
NIH-Funded Research Achieves Key Milestone
Findings by NYITCOM researchers advance understanding of the relationship between menopause and cardiovascular disease risk.
Engineering Students ‘CREATE’ Winning Invention
College of Engineering and Computing Sciences students scored a third-place win for their invention designed to help employees with disabilities succeed in their everyday work tasks.
Fellow鈥檚 Field Notes: Rajeshri Nadar
Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship recipient Rajeshri Nadar traveled to Florida to evaluate how effectively her neuro-audit tool can assess an environment鈥檚 sustainability for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Two Medical Students Test AI Research in the Study of Endometriosis
Using artificial intelligence (AI), Sarah Landman and Rachel Lee examined if there was a correlation between specific clinical symptoms and the actual diagnosis of endometriosis.
NYITCOM Debuts Health Policy and Research Symposium
The College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) hosted its first State of Health Policy and Research Symposium, where medical students joined academic leaders, policy experts, and researchers to discuss pressing issues affecting healthcare and the scientific landscape.