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Student Angelina Montez Examines Meatpacking Labor Exploitation During Pandemic Angelina Montez '22, a junior double majoring in communication and women's, gender, and sexuality studies, received a spring Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience (AYURE) award for her research project, "Understanding the Communicative Conditions of Meatpacking Labor Exploitation amid the COVID-19 Pandemic," which she's conducting with faculty mentor Kathleen P. Hunt, an assistant professor of communication. The research project contrasts the internal working conditions of meatpacking employees with their companies' public-facing media and public relations campaigns. Their research has found that companies misrepresent general worker safety as well as COVID-19-specific safety measures in an attempt to rewrite the narrative that is playing out in factories across the country. By emphasizing employees' essential worker status and their dedication to supporting their employees during this crisis, companies project a public image as proud protectors rather than profiteers. The team is focusing on presenting their findings at upcoming academic conferences with future plans to publish in an academic journal. Montez also hopes that COVID can be a catalyst for positive change regarding the working conditions of underrepresented groups. She will continue her work with food systems and environmental communication as well as issues of workers' rights and environmental advocacy.

SUNY New Paltz students participated in the Listen Forward Student Recital: New Music New Voices, April 13th.

SUNY New Paltz awarded students with the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) grant for summer 2020.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes students awarded Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience (AYURE) grants for the spring 2021 semester.

SUNY New Paltz incoming first-year students participated in the 2020 AC^2 STEM Prep Camp.

SUNY New Paltz students completed the 2020 AC^2 Summer Research Program.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes recipients of the 2020-2021 Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience (AYURE) Awards

SUNY New Paltz senior engineering students participated in the Virtual Engineering Project Review for the Fall 2020 semester on December 11, 2020.

SUNY New Paltz students presented findings from their Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE).

SUNY New Paltz recognizes recipients of the 2019-20 Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience (AYURE) Awards

SUNY New Paltz students showcased their research at the 26th annual Student Research Symposium, presented virtually on Friday, May 1, 2020

Engineers-in-the-making showcase creativity at the spring 2020 Senior Design EXPO

SUNY New Paltz computer science seniors present fall 2019 capstone projects on work done in external internships for local companies and on campus.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes students serving on the 2019-2020 Executive Board for the Hawk Investment Club.

SUNY New Paltz senior engineering students will participate in the Engineering Project Review on Dec. 6

Students from the SUNY New Paltz's masters of fine arts program rolled a 220-lb plastic ball in Kingston as part of the O+ Festival's environmental conservation-themed program.

The sisters of Sigma Delta Tau will be raising money for their national philanthropy, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA), with an event called "Push-ups for Prevention."

SUNY New Paltz students completed the 2019 AC^2 Summer Research Program.

SUNY New Paltz education students are at the center of a movement to bring technology integration to teacher preparation.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes a small group of science students who participated in an event called "Dragonhacks" at Drexel University.

SUNY New Paltz students will present original research findings obtained through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes student members of the Catholic Campus Ministry club.

SUNY New Paltz students showcased their research at the 25th annual Student Research Symposium, May 3, 2019

SUNY New Paltz computer science seniors present capstone projects on work done in external internships for local companies and on campus.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes physics students presenting project posters at a Department of Physics & Astronomy event on May 10.

Engineers-in-the-making showcase creativity at spring 2019 Senior Design EXPO

SUNY New Paltz basketball player Lindsay Bettke was selected to compete in the Inaugural Beyond Sports Women's Collegiate All-Star Game.

SUNY New Paltz students from Professor Kerry Dean Carso's fall 2018 course, "Art of the Hudson Valley" contribute to the "Mohonk Mountain House at 150" exhibition.

SUNY New Paltz recognizes student Transfer Assistants for Programming for the Fall 2018 semester.

Engineers-in-the-making will recieve professional and peer feedback for their fall 2018 Senior Design Review