Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Joshua Zingher from Cedar Rapids, IA has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Called "virtually indistinguishable from a colleague" by a faculty member, Joshua Zingher was presenting papers at national conferences as a second-year graduate student. Interested in the role that ethnic, racial, class and gender groupings play in the political process, he has made eight conference presentations to date, and has two articles in peer-reviewed journals and several others under review, including one that won the "Best Paper in the Racial and Ethnic Politics Section" award at the 2012 American Political Science Association National Conference. "His ideas are good; his analysis is always strong; and the ideas he has and the analysis he works on get turned into real outcomes for the political science scholarly community at large," writes his nominator. Others note that his strength as a scholar comes from his ability to "ask and answer interesting, original research questions, even in areas that might seem at first to have been worked to death."

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.