Campus News

Gov. David Paterson appointed educator and former mayor Bruce R. Tytler M ’88, CAS ’05, of Cortland, N.Y., to the SUNY Cortland College Council on Jan. 12. The principal of Whitney Point (N.Y.) High School since August 2008, Tytler has been an educator for nearly three decades.

Three SUNY Cortland Economics Department faculty members, one of whom is also a local business leader, will interpret what made the Great Recession of 2007-10 the worst in U.S. history since the Great Depression, on Thursday, April 1, at SUNY Cortland.

When the renovations are completed to Studio West in Spring 2011, the facility and its new, two-story addition will be known as the Professional Studies Building, the President’s Cabinet decided at its March 15 meeting.

Philip H. Red Eagle, who has immersed himself in indigenous cultural renewal for nearly 25 years and in the canoe movement since 1993, will visit SUNY Cortland on Wednesday, March 31.

Li Jiansheng, one of China’s foremost ceramic artists and scholars, will discuss Chinese and American cultural similarities and differences that find common ground in the clay medium, on Wednesday, March 24, at SUNY Cortland.

The 12th annual Unity Celebration, featuring an hors d’oeuvres reception and activities to commemorate cultural diversity on the SUNY Cortland campus, has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 1. Please R.S.V.P. by Tuesday, March 24.

Robert Spitzer, a distinguished service professor and chair of the SUNY Cortland Political Science Department, will discuss the pending Supreme Court case of McDonald v. City of Chicago at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, at Main Street SUNY Cortland, 9 Main St.

Michael DeVito of Cortland, N.Y., has won the top honor in SUNY Cortland’s 2009 College Writing Contest.

SUNY Cortland has received $95,680 to replace lighting in the Park Center Corey Gymnasium and Alumni Arena as part of the second round of funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) State Energy Program.

Justin Kredible, who blends a unique mix of comedy and magic and currently hosts the Food Network show, “Cupcake Wars,” performs on Wednesday, March 10, at SUNY Cortland.