Schenectady resident Earl Bellinger at SUNY Oswego earns Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

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OSWEGO, NY (04/17/2012)(readMedia)-- Earl Bellinger of Schenectady, an honors program dual major in computer science and applied mathematics 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.

Bellinger, who will intern this summer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing software for the Cassini satellite's mission to Saturn, has published research on variable stars in two academic journals, the Astronomical Journal of the Pacific and Astrophysics and Space Science. He also attended the 2011 Stellar Pulsation Conference in Granada, Spain, and twice earned awards to do research at SUNY Oswego Global Laboratory partners in Brazil.

Among his many other accomplishments, Bellinger plays stringed instruments, piano and percussion instruments, and has composed more than 50 scores.

Other Oswego recipients were Rob Kronen of Cato, Amy LaLonde of Dryden, 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.