Campus News

Eight senior physical education majors at SUNY Cortland were recognized with Lenore K. Alway/Anthony P. Tesori Awards for their outstanding work in student teaching in New York state schools during the Spring 2009 semester.

SUNY Distinguished Professor Timothy Baroni, a professor of biological sciences at SUNY Cortland, will receive the Mycological Society of America (MSA)'s highest honor, the 2009 MSA Distinguished Mycologist Award. Baroni, whose specialty is the study of systematics of macrofungi, will be honored during the MSA Annual Meeting from July 25-29, to be held jointly this year in Snowbird, Utah with the Botanical Society of America, the American Fern Society, the American Bryological and Lichenological Society and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Bonni Hodges, a professor of health at SUNY Cortland, will receive a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center.

JoEllen Bailey, an associate professor of physical education at SUNY Cortland, will receive a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center.

Jeffrey A. Bauer, an associate professor of kinesiology at SUNY Cortland, will receive a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center.

Kathleen Lawrence, an associate professor of communication studies at SUNY Cortland, will receive a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center.

Billie Jean Goff, a senior counselor at SUNY Cortland, will receive a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center.

Barry L. Batzing, who has served on the SUNY Cortland faculty for 36 years, will retire on August 31. He has earned the designation of professor of biological sciences emeritus. Batzing, a former Biological Sciences Department chair, was honored in 1981 with a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The SUNY Cortland Commencement ceremony for students earning master’s degrees and certificates of advanced study is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, May 15, in Park Center Alumni Arena.

SUNY Cortland will conduct two undergraduate Commencement ceremonies - one at 9:30 a.m. and the other at 2:30 p.m. - on Saturday, May 16, in the Bessie L. Park Class of 1901 Physical Education and Recreation Center Alumni Arena. An estimated 1,429 seniors will receive baccalaureate degrees during Commencement exercises, which will be presided over by SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum. Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody '75, the first female four-star general in U.S. history, will address the graduates during the morning ceremony. Bert R. Mandelbaum '75, M.D., a well-known orthopedic surgeon and U.S. Soccer Men's National Team Physician since 1991, will address the graduates during the afternoon ceremony. The State University of New York will bestow upon both Dunwoody and Mandelbaum the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters during Commencement.