Campus News

Four SUNY Cortland seniors were honored with 2010 State University of New York Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence.

Two SUNY Cortland graduates, University of Wyoming President Thomas Buchanan and Wells College President Lisa Marsh Ryerson, will receive honorary degrees from State University of New York during the Undergraduate Commencement exercises in Park Center Alumni Arena on Saturday, May 22.

Scottish digital artist Paul Higham teams up with British sculptor Coral Lambert to present an exhibition titled “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” from April 5-16 at Dowd Gallery.

The SUNY Cortland College Council will hold its next regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in Miller Building, Room 405.

The Gaia Grrrls of Binghamton, an ad hoc collective of activist women artists from Binghamton, N.Y., have an exhibition in Memorial Library about gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, was awarded the Outstanding Reference Book Award of 2009 by the American Library Association (ALA) for his nonfiction work, Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows Through 2007.

SUNY Cortland’s Seven Valleys Writing Project (SVWP) will offer a half-day workshop, “Writing to Learn in the Social Studies Classroom,” on Saturday, April 17, at Homer High School in Homer, N.Y.

Yomee Lee, associate professor of kinesiology, will explore the intricacies of the sporting culture among Korean women at the Rozanne M. Brooks Lecture Series talk on Wednesday, April 7, at the College.

The College’s award-winning commitment to develop more well-rounded and civically engaged students will pick up speed with a new initiative to assess and improve the quality of its programs, supported by a $100,000 Bringing Theory to Practice grant.

“Rent, the award-winning Broadway rock musical by Jonathan Larson, will be presented by the SUNY Cortland Performing Arts Department April 9-11 and April 16-18 in the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre.