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Meteorology major Heather
Sheffield ’07 begins
selecting photographs for the display of “the
beautiful and wild weather of Oswego” she will
present during April 18 Quest in the hallways
of Lanigan Hall. She is assembling about 20 photos
that she and her colleagues in meteorology have
taken across the seasons in Oswego County, including
the news-making snowstorms of February. “I think
people don’t even realize everything they see
out their window, there’s every type of weather
here," said Sheffield, who chose to come to Oswego
from her home in Buffalo because of the college’s
meteorology program and lakeside location. The
display will be one of more than 150 sessions
in the college’s annual salute to scholarly and
creative activity. |
Quest, the annual daylong symposium dedicated to the
scholarly and creative pursuits of SUNY Oswego’s
faculty and students, will see a number of innovations
when it gets under way at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, April
18, says Jack Gelfand, the college’s director
of research administration and development.
Several segments of the program will move to the new
Campus Center. An evening portion for graduate students
will lengthen the day to 7:30 p.m. A student-designed
Web page will introduce the online program. And student
radio station WNYO plans to broadcast live in spots
throughout the day.
The program schedule for Quest is now available online.
The Quest Web page — complete with abstracts of
all presentations and a competitively designed front
page by students in Professor Cara Thompson’s
art class — is live at www.oswego.edu/quest.
This year’s featured guest speaker, Brad Hill
of Weblogs Inc., will discuss “Citizen Media and
the Battle for Cultural Control” at 1 p.m. in
the Campus Center. Immediately following his talk, Quest
posters and demonstrations — including sculpture
molding, figurative bronze casting, pot throwing and
printmaking — will be featured from 2 to 4 p.m.
in the Campus Center.
The 20 posters — such as psychology student Christina
Sawyer’s on “Religion and the Media”
— will be available in the Campus Center throughout
the day, but their creators will be on hand to discuss
them with visitors during this time.
In the realm of the arts, music students will perform
a two-hour recital 2:15 p.m. in Room 101 of Lanigan
Hall, and the theatre department will present scenes
from “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” live,
at 11:15 a.m. and “Lost in a Viral Paradise,”
by video, at 2:15 p.m. together with analysis of the
works by artists and scholars, both in Hewitt Union’s
Bell Auditorium.
As usual, most of the day will be devoted to generally
short, overlapping presentations by students and faculty
on their scholarly and creative activities, about 150
in all this year. They will take place in Lanigan Hall,
Penfield Library, Campus Center and Hewitt Union.
Students from the college’s School of Education,
including many teachers who are pursuing master’s
degrees, will hold forth in the Campus Center meeting
room from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on their research in the
teaching and education field.
The graduate session from 5 to 7:30 p.m. will consist
of panels, talks and posters.
The day’s 12 panels and discussions will include
“The Many Voices of William Blake,” the
Romantic English poet, at 10:30 a.m. in the formal lounge
of Hewitt Union.
Centro delivers bus riders to the front door of the
Campus Center from Wal-Mart, downtown and other parts
of Oswego 36 times a day on weekdays. See www.centro.org
for detailed schedules. University Police noted, too,
that visitors driving to campus that day will not need
to purchase parking passes.
— Julie Harrison Blissert |
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