News Release Archives: March 2012

SUNY Oswego’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program office has opened recruitment for volunteers within the Oswego City School District to help with the Driving Books Home program.

The SUNY Oswego theatre department will present Shakespeare’s dark comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” previewing at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 19, and opening at 8 p.m. April 20 in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

Sarah Argus, a SUNY Oswego senior art and psychology dual major, will display her digital prints starting Friday, April 13, in a free Oswego State Downtown exhibition titled “Sarah Argus: Blank Slate.”

Penfield Library will hold its annual book sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, offering hardcover books for $1 and paperbacks for 50 cents.

SUNY Oswego’s RSVP is seeking volunteers to remove debris from the river and lake shorelines in Oswego as part of the seventh annual Clean Sweep, 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 21.

A former ambassador who has worked with the U.S. Department of State since she earned a degree in economics at SUNY Oswego in 1975 will address honors students and their families at the college’s annual Honors Convocation on April 20.

Rice Creek Rambles, free naturalist-led walks, will take place six Saturdays in April and May at Rice Creek Field Station off Thompson Road, south of State Route 104.

Expert speakers in the fields of feminism, science and technology will highlight a conference Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, at SUNY Oswego.

For the second straight year, SUNY Oswego appeared among the select group of schools named to the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.

A SUNY Oswego expert in presidential politics, Dr. Bruce Altschuler, will give the keynote address April 18 at Quest, the college’s day to celebrate student, faculty and staff research and creativity

A South Korean university will send dozens of students to SUNY Oswego in January as the most visible example to date of the college’s increased recruitment of international students.

For Tim Delaney of SUNY Oswego’s sociology department, the name of his latest textbook—“Connecting Sociology to Our Lives”—describes his goal in writing it.

SUNY Oswego music faculty member Juan F. La Manna’s original composition “Three Pieces for Two Orchestras” will debut Tuesday, March 27, as the College-Community Orchestra teams with the Oswego Middle School Orchestra.

SUNY Oswego’s Small Business Development Center will host a free workshop titled “What Business Should I Start?” from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, at its E-Commerce Incubator, 34 S. First Street in Fulton.

John Laundre, a predator biologist and adjunct instructor, will make a free Rice Creek Reflections presentation titled “Landscape of Fear: Large Carnivores and Ecosystem Integrity” at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 31, at the college’s Rice Creek Field Station.

Matthew J. Dykas of SUNY Oswego, whose studies of family dynamics have advanced the understanding of what it takes to raise emotionally healthier children, will receive the 2012 Provost’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity from the college.

The State University of New York bestowed its 2011-12 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence on five SUNY Oswego students who have demonstrated academic success with significant accomplishments outside the classroom.

The National Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education honored Howard Gordon of Syracuse at the organization’s annual conference, held this month in conjunction with the American Council on Education annual meeting in Los Angeles.

A Campus Center arena concert will bring internationally known Pakistani singers Arif Lohar and Arooj Aftab to SUNY Oswego at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11.

A new program series offered by SUNY Oswego beginning March 30 is designed to help managers become more mindful and strategic about hiring, retaining and developing employees.

Tea, fashions, food and stories will provide the main threads for an upcoming sesquicentennial event.

Registration has opened for SUNY Oswego’s summer sessions.

Director Laura Zinger will appear Tuesday, March 27, as SUNY Oswego’s On Screen/In Person film series screens her documentary about a computer programmer turned poster and book artist.

The artwork of master of arts teaching candidates will hang alongside that of their student teaching mentors and their K-12 students in “Generations III,” an exhibition starting March 23 in Tyler Art Gallery.

Two candidates for master’s degrees will display their artwork March 23 to April 14 in Tyler Art Gallery.

Dancer and college professor Ligia Pinheiro will present a free lecture-demonstration on “Telling Tales Through Dance” Sunday, March 25, at SUNY Oswego.

SUNY Oswego theatre students and community members will model popular fashions through the decades—starting with the 1860s—in a sesquicentennial event titled “A Fashionable High Tea” on Saturday, March 24.

Cuarteto Latinoamericano, known worldwide as the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet, will perform Wednesday, March 21, at SUNY Oswego as part of the Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series.

Christy Huynh, associate director of SUNY Oswego’s Compass student success center, and Dr. Terry Tiballi, associate professor of mathematics, will receive the President’s Awards for Excellence in Professional Staff Service and for Excellence in Faculty Service, respectively, in April 20 ceremonies.

SUNY Oswego will spotlight its distinctive Global Laboratory initiative and its advances in science and technology education Monday morning (March 5) at the SUNY Central New York Showcase in Syracuse.