Kyle Brayton receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2014 Apr 10

SUNY Oswego five-year accounting-MBA major Kyle Brayton of Fulton has received the 2014 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.

Following internships with Biogen Idec in Boston and accounting firms in New York City and Syracuse, Brayton serves as assistant to the director of SUNY's Professional Science Masters Consortium. He was chapter president of the Accounting Society and the Financial Management Association, as well as finance vice president of WTOP-TV and Beta Alpha Psi honor society. He also helped organize "Meet the Accountants Night" and assisted community members with tax returns through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

"In July, I will move to New York City, where I will start with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as an audit associate," Brayton said.

Four other SUNY Oswego students joined Brayton as recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence: Laura Assam of Douala, Cameroon; Lindsay King of Troy, Nicole Leader of Baldwinsville and Rhiannon Peshniak of Hopewell Junction.

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 2014, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2014 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges," as well as its 2014 list of "best value" colleges and universities nationally.

A 153-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.