Ethan Walker honored at SUNY Oswego convocation

2015 May 12

Ethan J. Walker of Oswego was honored at SUNY Oswego's recent Honors Convocation. He received the Pearle A. Monroe Scholarship.

Walker is a junior studying biochemistry at Oswego. He is a member of the Chemistry Clb and an undergraduate research assistant. His future plans are to pursue a Ph.D. and teach. He is the son of Paul and Robin Walker of Oswego.

The formal ceremony, complete with a procession of faculty and college officers in full academic regalia, is sponsored each spring at Oswego by Vega, the women's honor society.

The audience included faculty, staff, students and students' family members. SUNY Oswego honored more than 100 students at the ceremony.

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 named SUNY Oswego a Best Value College for 2015.

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.

For more information, visit oswego.edu.