Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University honors the special achievements of those graduates who distinguish themselves in the areas of service to their department/academic program, school, and/or the University. The University also recognizes students who have made outstanding contributions through their efforts to reach out to the community by applying their skills, knowledge and experiences related to their graduate education.

Angela Runciman from Pottsville, PA has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Service and Outreach award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Angela Runciman is that rare student whose unlimited energy is devoted to both co-curricular and community involvement, as well as to professional advancement, writes her nominator. An adjunct faculty member at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, she has also devoted enormous time and energy to teaching and mentoring at Binghamton and SUNY Broome Community College. She has worked on graduate student publications including Inquire, The Harpur Palate, and as primary editor for Crossings. She has served on the Graduate Policies Committee and on numerous conferences and panels including the Ervene Gulley Memorial Committee and the Freshman Orientation Reading Program, and helped develop website content to ease new graduate students' transition to Binghamton. Most recently, she proposed the idea of hosting and was selected to serve as chair of the organizing committee for the British Women Writers Association Annual Conference, to be hosted in June 2014 at Binghamton University, which will bring hundreds of scholars to campus.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.