Dryden resident Amy LaLonde at SUNY Oswego earns Chancellor's Award for student excellence

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OSWEGO, NY (04/17/2012)(readMedia)-- Amy LaLonde of Dryden, an honors program applied mathematics major at SUNY Oswego, has received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest student recognition through the State University system.

Five SUNY Oswego students were among the 257 honorees at 64 SUNY institutions across New York state recognized for high grade-point average and extraordinary contributions to the campus and community. Students graduating between June 2011 and May 2012 were eligible. SUNY Chancellor's Award recipients were honored in an April 4 ceremony in Albany.

LaLonde received a Student-Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grant to help conduct an astrophysics research project with a faculty member and another student. Active with the alumni association, LaLonde is a student representative on the association's board of directors and president of the Future Alumni Network. She helped develop Green and Gold Day to spin off National College Colors Day.

President of the Math Club, LaLonde is a teaching assistant for mathematics courses, alumni relations officer of the Financial Management Association and student manager of the campus fitness centers. She has attended the Cornell Summer Math Institute, raised funds for Special Olympics and, with her family, annually organizes a Christmas Day community dinner in her hometown of Dryden and at Cornell University.

Among her honors, the Oswego Alumni Association named LaLonde this year's Outstanding Senior.

Other Oswego recipients were Earl Bellinger of Schenectady, Rob Kronen of Cato, Eric Wojtanik of Eden and Adam Wolfe of Troy.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News named it among the "Top Public Regional Universities in the North" for 2012, the Princeton Review and USA Today named SUNY Oswego to their 2012 list of 150 "best value" colleges and universities in the nation, and the Princeton Review included Oswego in its 2012 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges."

A 151-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls more than 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.