Tyler Penberthy honored at SUNY Oswego convocation

2015 May 12

Tyler D. Penberthy of East Amherst was honored at SUNY Oswego's recent Honors Convocation. He received the Society for Human Resources Management J. Donald Herring, Ph.D., Junior Award.

Penberthy is a sophomore studying human resource management at Oswego. He is a member of the Men's Volleyball Club, Society for Human Resource Management and a Women's Volleyball Student Coach. He is the son of Dave and Robin Penberthy of East Amherst.

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.