Four Oswego students this year received SUNY’s highest systemwide student award recently, the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Lakers honored included:
- Oghenetega (Tega) Adjoh, a double major in operations management and information systems and in finance
- Daniel Hall, a technology education major
- Emma Halsey, a double major in business administration and information science
- Mufaro Malungisa, a computer science major
Adjoh, Hall and Halsey all were nominated as SUNY Oswego students, while Malungisa was nominated by Jamestown Community College before graduating in December 2025 and transferring to SUNY Oswego in spring 2026. Read full story.
Angela Aldatz, a December 2025 graduate, represented SUNY Oswego among the 49 students in SUNY’s Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) honored this spring with the statewide Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence. The award, an annual tradition now in its seventh year, was presented by SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. to recognize outstanding EOP students for their academic merit and perseverance. Read full story.
Four students from the Department of Cinema and Screen Studies -- Nate Barbour, Julian DeBiase, Emily Rusinko and Asher Slayden -- presented their senior thesis films at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference at SUNY Fredonia on April 21.
Two SUNY Oswego students earned first-place honors in student categories at the Syracuse Press Club’s Professional Recognition Awards on May 2. Sophomore journalism major Addie Kotsol placed first in the Student Audio Sports Story category for her piece “Equity in SUNY Oswego Athletics,” while senior broadcast and digital media major Rob Finger earned first place in the Student Television/Video Sports Story category for his feature on the long-standing rivalry between Oswego's Lakers and Plattsburgh Cardinals men’s hockey teams. Read full story.
Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy Shashi Kanbur presented the second workshop related to his International Space Science Institute (ISSI) grant in late March in Switzerland. Kanbur led a discussion/talk on recent developments in stellar pulsation modeling. Other members of the team on the grant-funded project exploring questions about the universe’s scale, age and origins in attendance includedhis former SUNY Oswego students Earl Bellinger and Selim Kalici.
A faculty-student collaboration in the Department of Criminal Justice resulted in the publication of “In the Dark, We Spoke: Emotional Discourse and Transformative Learning in South Africa” in the American Journal of Qualitative Research. Authors included faculty members Martin Koen, Matthew McLeskey and Celinet Duran Jimenez, current student Madeline DeVito and Oswego graduate Abigail Hall.
Lindsay McCluskey, associate professor and advisement coordinator for communication studies, has been named to the editorial review board of the Journal of Public Relations Education (JPRE), the field's leading pedagogical journal.
Joshua McKeown, associate provost for international education, announced three pieces of notable news:
- McKeown recently co-authored (with Giselda Beaudin of Rollins College) an article entitled "Leadership as an Outcome of Education Abroad" in the spring 2026 issue of New Directions for Student Leadership (published by Wiley).
- McKeown presented at the CCID (Community Colleges for International Development) Annual Conference on "Global Experiences Supporting Semiconductor Technologies: IDEAS in Korea and Taiwan" on March 1 in Tucson, Arizona.
- McKeown also was quoted recently in the Wall Street Journal, offering insight into international student recruitment and enrollment trends in Africa
Health promotion and wellness adjunct professor Diane Oldenburg was recently honored with the Hermann M. Biggs Memorial Medal and Certificate, a prestigious lifetime achievement award presented by the New York State Public Health Association. This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant, lasting contributions to public health across New York state. Read full story.
Irene Scruton, assistant dean of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship and director of MBA programs, was honored as an Amazon Community Hero by the Syracuse Crunch hockey organization. As chair of the Food Bank of Central New York, Scruton “has used her ability to connect with others to help gain more awareness and support,” the recognition noted. “She is always pushing the team at the Food Bank to innovate, change and adapt to better meet the needs of our community!”
Communication studies faculty member Jason Zenor published “TrumpRx, Trump Kennedy Center, Trump National Parks passes − government free speech allows the president to name things after himself” in The Conversation, an academic news journal. His op-ed was picked up by numerous news outlets via the site’s network of connected publications. The article analyzes legal issues around the recent name changes and related attempts to silence any resulting protests.
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