Raymond Boss of Macedon Receives 2014 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2014 Apr 3

Raymond Boss of Macedon, NY, is among a select group of State University of New York students chosen to receive the 2014 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher presented the awards to the students at a reception in their honor on April 2 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany.

The Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence is the highest honor that SUNY bestows upon students. It is presented annually to SUNY students who demonstrate academic excellence and integrate it with accomplishments in other areas, such as leadership, career achievement, campus involvement, athletics, community service, or creative and performing arts. Boss is one of four SUNY Oneonta students chosen to receive the award this year.

An adolescent education-mathematics major who has maintained a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average, Boss is a two-time participant in the national William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and a student member of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State. He has been very involved in campus life, including serving as a resident advisor, vice president of the Association of Secondary Educators, musical director for the Voices of Serenity Gospel Choir, treasurer of the Jazz Appreciation Society, Poetry Slam Association performer, and drummer for the Funk Band and Jazz Orchestra.

Community service activities include raising money for cancer research as a member of St. Jude's Giants and a Relay for Life team captain, and serving as a volunteer tutor at the Oneonta Job Corps Center.

Since 1998 when the Chancellor's Award program was implemented, 74 SUNY Oneonta students have received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.