News Release Archives: January 2007

James Burke, author, creator and host of such TV series as “Connections” and “The Day the Universe Changed,” will discuss “Technology, Change and the Arts” on Wednesday, Feb. 21.

Topics ranging from weather forecasting to learning and memory, adaptable lizards to the theory of relativity will be discussed during SUNY Oswego’s Science Today lecture series this spring.

Students and faculty in SUNY Oswego’s art, theatre and music departments continue to create and collaborate on the original multimedia production “Lost in a Viral Paradise.” The show will open March 2 in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

Members of the campus and community can take part in open skating on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at SUNY Oswego’s Campus Center ice arena through mid-March.

SUNY Oswego’s Institute for Professional and Organizational Development will host a seminar on “Identifying Employee Development Needs” from 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 16 at the Oswego State Education Center in the Oswego County Industrial Park in Phoenix.

More than 100 SUNY Oswego students attended the 2006 New York City Career Connections event held at the Fashion Institute of Technology Jan. 3.

SUNY Oswego’s Institute for Professional and Organizational Development will host a seminar on “Growing Organizational Leaders” from 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 2 at the Oswego State Education Center in the Oswego County Industrial Park in Phoenix.

SUNY Oswego’s new cinema and screen studies major will offer lessons far beyond making films, its co-coordinators said.

Five SUNY Oswego students accompanied Dr. Shashi Kanbur of the college’s physics department to the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle in January to present their research.

SUNY Oswego’s College Hour will debut at 12:40 p.m. every Wednesday this semester with a schedule that includes performances, lectures, dance workshops, comedy, films and more.

The Artswego Performing Arts Series at SUNY Oswego has received a $95,000 grant from the New York State Music Fund to support collaboration between composer Richard Einhorn and the college to create a multimedia production based on the life and work of Charles Darwin.

Musicians, actors and dancers performing work by famous composers addressing the legend of Faust and the devil will comprise “Devils, Soldiers and Souls” Wednesday, Feb. 14.

The novel “Bombingham” by Anthony Grooms has been selected for campuswide reading this summer, and activities in the next academic year, under the Oswego Reading Initiative.

The Charles H. Jerred Planetarium at SUNY Oswego will provide a glimpse into “The Secret Life of Stars” during free programs for the public every Sunday in February.

National Public Radio will broadcast a short story written by Leigh Allison Wilson of SUNY Oswego’s English and creative writing department in late January on the popular “Selected Shorts” program.

Stilt walkers, jugglers and grocery-cart ballet dancers involved in the upcoming production “Lost in a Viral Paradise” plan to entertain visitors at the second annual Warm Up Oswego festival Saturday, Feb. 3, appearing at the Oswego Armory.

Dancers and musicians staging the African-flavored “Men-Jaro: Friendship” at SUNY Oswego will give workshops and presentations for classes and the community on Jan. 30 and 31.

Author and National Public Radio music critic Tim Riley will discuss censorship and free speech at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in Room 101 of Lanigan Hall.

Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego will open two new exhibitions, “The Unbroken Circle: Recent Work By Mary Giehl” and the Art Faculty Exhibition, on Friday, Feb. 2.

In response to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report that 10,000 people retire every day, creating a projected shortage of 10.3 million employees by 2010, SUNY Oswego’s Institute for Professional and Organizational Development will host a series of seminars leading to a succession planning certificate.

SUNY Oswego’s Institute for Professional and Organizational Development will host a Succession Planning Community of Interest Forum from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at the Oswego State Education Center in the Oswego County Industrial Park in Phoenix.

A panel discussion featuring national figures in athletics and sports journalism pondering the impact of media on sports at SUNY Oswego’s fall Louis A. Borrelli Jr. Media Summit will air twice on the Dish Network on Monday, Jan. 22.

The Charles H. Jerred Planetarium at SUNY Oswego will showcase “What Astronomers Do” during free programs for the public every Sunday in January.

The SUNY Oswego staging of “Dora: A Case of Hysteria” has been selected as one of six invited productions for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region II Festival at SUNY New Paltz later this month.

“Men-Jaro: Friendship,” a collaboration between an international troupe of dancers and African musicians, will open the spring Artswego season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, in Waterman Theatre.