Dianora DeMarco receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2015 Apr 8

SUNY Oswego 5-year accounting/MBA major Dianora DeMarco of Bronx has received the 2015 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest student recognition through the State University system.

The award, presented April 2 in a ceremony in Albany, honors students who have best demonstrated and been recognized for their integration of academic excellence with other aspects of their lives, which may include leadership, campus involvement, athletics, career achievement, community service or creative and performing arts.

President of the Student Investment Club, DeMarco monitored and helped manage a six-figure portfolio to a 30 percent gain in two years. The honors student won a top award at a Shanghai research forum and completed the Costa Rican Business Program.

Recipient of multiple scholarships, DeMarco made Oswego's team for the 2013 College Fed Challenge and served on the School of Business Student Advisory Board and Beta Alpha Psi's executive board. She and her sorority, Alpha Epsilon Pi, established an annual event to benefit an Oswego boy with a rare cancer, raising more than $5,000.

"I have received job offers from two Big Four accounting firms where I interned, and I'm awaiting word on whether I'll receive one of six positions for new graduates nationally on the Financial Accounting Standards Board," DeMarco said.

Four other SUNY Oswego students joined DeMarco as recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence: Joshua Drake of Fulton, Molly Matott of North Syracuse, David Owens of Cato and Eyub Yegen of Schwabisch Gmund, Germany.

About SUNY Oswego

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2015, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2015 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges," as well as its 2015 list of "best value" colleges and universities nationally. Kiplinger's also selected SUNY Oswego a 2015 Best Value College.

A 154-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 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.

Visit oswego.edu for more information.