Campus News

SUNY Cortland head football coach Daniel MacNeill and the Dragons football team will host a bone marrow registry on Saturday, May 2, at the Alumni Ice Arena in hopes of finding potential donors.

Jon Rubin, an associate professor of film and new media at SUNY Purchase, will discuss his recent experiences with a university that was driven out of Belarus for political reasons, on Thursday, April 30, at SUNY Cortland.

SUNY Cortland's Institute for Civic Engagement (ICE) will recognize the accomplishments of 28 students, faculty and staff members and local community members during its fifth annual Leadership in Civic Engagement Awards Reception on Thursday, April 30.

Gov. David A. Paterson today announced that the New York Jets will hold their 2009 Training Camp at the campus of SUNY Cortland generating millions in economic activity for Central New York and drawing thousands of people to Cortland this summer. Gov. Paterson made the announcement in SUNY Cortland’s historic Hall of Fame Room where he was joined by New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson and SUNY Cortland President Erik Bitterbaum, as well as business leaders, and State and local elected officials.

The Performing Arts Department will present the Choral Union in its spring concert on Tuesday, May 5, at 8 p.m. in the Dowd Fine Arts Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. The program features a concert of music for the stage and will include selections from operas and a musical play.

The Performing Arts Department will present a concert by the College-Community Orchestra, under the direction of Ubaldo Valli, on Tuesday, April 28, at 8 p.m. in the Dowd Fine Arts Theatre. The concert, which is free and open to the public, features music written by composers with local connections.

Joel Kovel, a controversial author, activist and faculty member at Bard College, will deliver one of three planned lectures at SUNY Cortland during "Earth Week: What on Earth is a Green Economy?" from April 21-24. Organized by the campus organization Cortland Students Advocating a Valuable Environment (CSAVE), the presentations all begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Well-known poet, journalist and activist Irakli Kakabadze and his wife Anna Dolidze, a human rights lawyer, both from the Republic of Georgia, will be screening their documentary, "At the Top of My Voice," on Monday, April 20 at SUNY Cortland. The film, which is free and open to the public, will be shown at 7 p.m. in Old Main Brown Auditorium.

Area teachers, teaching assistants, school administrators and College faculty will entertain their colleagues and celebrate teaching with a variety show featuring music, humor and reflections on Wednesday, May 6, at SUNY Cortland. The 20th annual "Celebration of Teaching: A Cabaret Evening of Entertainment" will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a dessert buffet and social gathering in Corey Union Function Room.

Popular recording artist Matt Nathanson will perform during the SUNY Cortland Student Activities Board's fifth annual "Rock for a Cause" on Tuesday, April 28. The performance, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Corey Union Function Room, benefits the V-Day UNICEF joint campaign, called "Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource: Power to Women and Girls of the Democratic Republic of the Congo." V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. The 37 Project, a SUNY Cortland student band, and David Smallen will open for Nathanson.