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Tyler P.
  • meteorology
  • Class of 2016
  • Sparta, NJ

Tyler Pelle receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2016 Apr 5

SUNY Oswego meteorology and applied mathematics major Tyler Pelle of Sparta has received the 2016 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest student recognition through the State University system.

The award, presented April 5 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.

Pelle, a senior in the college's honors program, served as 2015-16 director of SUNY Oswego's Lake Effect Storm and Research Center, building on field research he did with the Ontario Winter Lake-effect System project. He worked last summer as a National Science Foundation research affiliate at MIT's Haystack Observatory.

Vice president of the Meteorology Club, he has attended national American Meteorological Society meetings, served as counselor for Oswego's mathematics bridge camp, volunteered with Adopt-a-Grandparent and Team Red, White and Blue, and presented at the Great Lakes Atmospheric Science Symposium. Academic honors include earning the college's Lewis R. Ritter Upper Division Mathematics Award in 2015.

"This fall, I will be attending the University of California, Irvine, as a Ph.D. candidate in the earth system science program to study the modeling of Arctic sea ice and its response to both natural and forced climate change," Pelle 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 2016, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2016 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges" and in its national list of "Green Colleges."

A 155-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