139 Students Receive the Susan Sutton Smith Award

ONEONTA, NY — A total of 139 students received the SUNY Oneonta 2015-2016 Susan Sutton Smith Award for academic excellence.

To be eligible for the award, a student must be a freshman, sophomore or junior with a grade-point average of 3.9 or higher.

Student award winners received a certificate, a gift card to the campus bookstore, and an invitation to attend the annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture and reception.

Dr. Susan Bernardin, professor of English at SUNY Oneonta, delivered this year’s lecture on Tuesday, April 12, in the Craven Lounge of the college’s Morris Conference Center. Bernardin is the 22nd recipient of the Susan Sutton Smith Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence, created to recognize faculty achievement outside the classroom and named in memory of the late SUNY Oneonta professor of English.

The following area students received the Susan Sutton Smith Award:

Megan Polwarth of Central Square, NY, a junior majoring in Computer Art;

Abigail Shatrau of Oswego, NY, a junior majoring in Fashion and Textiles;

A liberal arts institution with a strong focus on undergraduate research and service learning, SUNY Oneonta consistently gains recognition for delivering excellence and value. The college has been named to Kiplinger’s list of “100 Best Values in Public Colleges” for 10 years running and sits at No. 9 on the 2016 U.S. News and World Report list of the best public institutions in the region.

SUNY Oneonta enrolls 6,000 students in its 70 undergraduate majors and 14 graduate programs.

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