Lauren Paulsen of Schenectady Honored for Academic Excellence at Hudson Valley Community College

2015 May 29

Lauren Paulsen was recently honored for excellence by an academic department at Hudson Valley Community College.

Each year, high-achieving students from the more than 75 academic programs at the Troy, NY college are chosen for special recognition.

Paulsen was given the 2015 General Chemistry II Olympiad, second place, which is given to the second-highest scorer in the college's annual General Chemistry Olympiad. The awarded is handed out by the Biology, Chemistry and Physics Department.

Students are selected for honors by faculty and departmental administrative staff.

Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley Community College offers more than 75 degree and certificate programs in four schools: Business; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Sciences; and Liberal Arts and Sciences; and workforce and academic preparation programs offered through the Educational Opportunity Center. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it has an enrollment of nearly 13,000 students, and it is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and worker retraining. Hudson Valley has more than 75,000 alumni.