Impact 5 - Our Grand Challenges

SUNY Oswego continues to provide relief and recovery after hurricane damage to Puerto Rico. A recent initiative ties into the college's Grand Challenges: Fresh Water for All campaign.

For her latest book, which looks at the legacy of the Columbine school shootings two decades later, SUNY Oswego criminal justice faculty member Jackie Schildkraut said the foundation comes from a quote in the Wall of Healing at the Columbine Memorial -- a place of remembrance that will be supported withproceeds from the book.

SHOP -- Students Helping Oz Peers -- is an on-campus pantry that offers food, clothing and personal items in the basement of Penfield Library.

Rebecca Dunham -- a "poet as moral witness" -- will make a free presentation at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, in SUNY Oswego's Marano Campus Center auditorium as part of the English and creative writing department's Living Writers Series.

The use of plastics in SUNY Oswego dining centers is down, and sustainability education is up, thanks to a student question during one of President Deborah F. Stanley’s town hall meetings.

SUNY Oswego faculty and student scientists working to monitor and protect an environmentally sensitive Oswego County habitat of endangered species also plan to work with the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District to hold neighborhood education sessions about how people can alleviate some of the threats.

The annual Oswego Reading Initiative will welcome award-winning novelist and essayist Valeria Luiselli to SUNY Oswego on Thursday, Sept. 27, to discuss her 2017 extended essay "Tell Me How It Ends," an exploration of the journey of undocumented Central American children as they are vetted through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

SUNY Oswego's "I Am Oz" Diversity Speaker Series will open this fall with an appearance by LaToya Ruby Frazier, a photographer and environmental activist who uses her art as a catalyst for social justice.

New students plunging into their SUNY Oswego education in the EOP Summer Program immersed themselves in "Fresh Water for All" -- the college's two-year Grand Challenges project -- as they researched water sources, consumption and conservation.

A SUNY Oswego panel has recommended college mini-grant funding for five project proposals -- ranging from a multicultural effort to provide water purifiers to Puerto Rico to helping support a talk by an eco-poet known for her poetry about the disasters such as those at Flint, Michigan, and the Deepwater Horizon -- developed for Grand Challenges: Fresh Water for All.