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Four students from The State University of New York at ���ϴ����� have received a 2017 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

���ϴ����� faculty member Douglas Owens has received a Fulbright German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award to attend the summer academy in Leipzig for U.S.-American faculty in German Studies.

Anne Pellerin, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Amber Charlebois, chemistry department lecturer, have received a Consortium for High Achievement and Success (CHAS) faculty grant of $6,500 for a pilot project to build a tiered mentoring program for undergraduate women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields at ���ϴ�����.

Two faculty members in the Department of Geography have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award of $232,099 for a collaborative research project to assess the environmental and human drivers and the cultural dimension of changes in oak forests in the eastern United States.

A ���ϴ����� VentureWorks team won second place and two others received awards of recognition in the finals of the New York State Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28. ���ϴ�����’s teams were among 103 from 60 colleges and universities in the statewide competition.

���ϴ�����’s School of Business has received a five-year extension of its business accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Such accreditation by the AACSB International Board of Directors is the hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than five percent of the world’s business schools.

Two ���ϴ����� students, senior Alex McGrath and sophomore Annie Renaud, have won highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship awards for Russian this year among a field of national candidates.

���ϴ����� students will be involved in a daylong campus celebration April 25 by presenting their creative and scholarly endeavors during the college’s 11th annual GREAT Day. For the first time since its inception, more than 1,000 students will showcase their work with presentations, performances and exhibits.

In the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, students in this geography class immerse themselves in culture and explore how communities work.

All five student teams from ���ϴ�����’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program are advancing to the NYS Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28.

Two ���ϴ����� seniors, a graduate student and an alumna have been awarded highly competitive U.S. Fulbright Scholarships for 2017-18 to participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program. Another student was selected as an alternate.

The State University of New York at ���ϴ����� will be inducting 87 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, prompted by their recent election by the college’s faculty. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.

Two ���ϴ����� students have received prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for 2017. Juniors Jeffrey Doser, a biology/mathematics double major from Penfield, N.Y., and Lara Finnerty-Haggerty, a biology major from Brooklyn, N.Y., were among the 240 recipients.

Maria Gershuni '17 recently won the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) David J. Prior Award for an essay in which she shared her perspective of the value of a liberal arts education and how her experience at ���ϴ����� has helped shaped who she is.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Karleen West’s research on indigenous reactions to oil development in Ecuador has earned national attention in two publications.

For the second time and in consecutive years, a ���ϴ����� undergraduate has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and is now headed to MIT.

Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of environmental humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 14th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall 202. The lecture, titled “Frankenstein’s Weather: The Year Without a Summer, 1816,” is free and open to the public.

Stacey M. Robertson has been appointed to serve as ���ϴ�����’s new provost and vice president for academic affairs. She is currently the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Central Washington University (CWU).

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melanie Medeiros is getting ready to celebrate the release of her book, Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship.

Every year in early March, while experts in the field of sustainable energy begin to flock to Austria for the annual World Sustainable Energy Days conference, students around the world are hard at work conducting sustainable research projects of their own. Last summer, Aidan Murphy, a senior math major, had the opportunity to work on a project at ���ϴ�����’s own environmental research facility known as the eGarden.

At the National Institutes of Health, Greg Roloff ’12 analyzes blood samples of patients with leukemia that persists after cancer treatment — at levels below detection.

The Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women (JFEW) announced it is extending the SUNY International Relations and Global Affairs Program, which offers a 2-year support package for SUNY women preparing for careers in international relations.

On Wednesday, March 1, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. in Newton 202, there is an information session for faculty, students and staff who may be interested in teaching, learning, conducting research or contributing their time to a project in the park.

Two ���ϴ����� associate professors of physics James McLean and George Marcus applied for and received a $200,680 three-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant from the National Science Foundation.
Their award led to the creation of a new summer program, known as SURGE, Supporting Undergraduate Research at ���ϴ�����.

The PRR is required to fulfill Middle States accreditation requirements. Through the planning and leadership of co-chairs Cathy Adams, associate professor of history, and Ken Kallio, interim associate provost for personnel and diversity, the college is on schedule to complete its PRR by June 1.