Tatiana Gregory receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2017 Mar 14

SUNY Oswego senior biochemestry major Tatiana Gregory of Brooklyn has received the 2017 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest student recognition through the State University system.

Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher invited Gregory to an April 5 ceremony in Albany to recognize recipients. The award 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.

Gregory has served as president of the Student Association Volunteer Ambulance Corps, co-founded Hands-Only CPR seminars on campus, and served as secretary of Colleges Against Cancer, a coordinator of Relay for Life and treasurer of the Shaun Cassidy Fan Club Improv Comedy Troupe.

The Brooklyn native was a research assistant during academic travel to the Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, and conducts research with chemistry faculty member Kestas Bendinskas. She earned induction to Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society was an Honors Student Advisory Board member, has logged more than 800 hours of community service and earned SAVAC's Director of the Year Award.

"I plan to earn master's degrees in biochemistry and nutrition following a year of work to take the financial burden off graduate school," Gregory said.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2017, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2017 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges" and in its national list of "Green Colleges."

A 156-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.