Awards + honors

SUNY Oswego Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Christy Huynh will receive The Zonta Club of Oswego's 2023 Amelia Earhart Woman of Achievement Award at a dinner at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20, at the Oswego Country Club.

SUNY Oswego Technology Student Association (OTSA) members added more awards to their trophy case at the recent ITEEA (International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Conference), April 12 to 15 in Minneapolis.

Damien Nguyen, a senior double majoring in human development and criminal justice, recently earned the statewide Norman R. McConney, Jr. Award for outstanding student excellence. This award recognizes Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students who overcome obstacles to go above and beyond in their academic endeavors.

Four SUNY Oswego students have earned the 2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence, the highest such recognition in the state system. These awards recognize outstanding accomplishments inside and outside the classroom for childhood education-English major Kaitlin Flint, zoology major Brooke Goodman, meteorology major Kaitlyn Jesmonth and psychology major Adriana Militello.

Four Oswego students had an excellent showing in their first-ever appearance at the SUNY Model European Union gathering recently, winning an award for Outstanding Agenda Item with sophomore journalism major Aidan Trusz honored as Most Effective Finance Minister.

SUNY Oswego’s Office of Sustainability and its manager, Kate Spector, have earned the 2022 College Recycling Leadership Award from the New York State Association of Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3) for its composting project.

SUNY Oswego was recently named among the “Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs” by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA)-College Student Educators International in partnership with Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Communication studies faculty member Francisco Suarez won the 2022 Silver Signal Award for his podcast “From Suarez’s Basement,” where he goes in depth on the behind the scenes of visual storytelling.

Mamta Saxena of SUNY Oswego’s human development faculty has earned an award from National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) for an outstanding combination of teaching, advising and scholarship.

Laker student-athletes recently received the NCAA Team Works Community Service Competition award, which recognizes student-athletes’ service to their respective communities through divisional competitions, a national honor among all participating Division III schools.