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April's keeper: 2015 grad cares for world's most famous giraffe

April 16, 2017

Millions around the world followed the pregnancy of April the giraffe -- and the care of her favorite keeper, Allysa Swilley, a 2015 SUNY Oswego zoology graduate.

Research

Grant supports student experiences with Rice Creek collection

April 3, 2017

A state-administered grant program recently boosted its longtime support of Rice Creek Field Station to $175,000 over five years -- a $10,000-a-year bump that has enabled hiring of student curators for animal collections and much more.

Restoration project brings college's plant museum into the light

January 16, 2017

SUNY Oswego’s recently opened herbarium features more than 50,000 dried and mounted plant specimens in a historically significant collection that links the main campus’ scientific education and research mission with that of Rice Creek Field Statio

Research

Fossil-hunting students flourish in New Mexico dig

September 22, 2016

Thanks to a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant, three SUNY Oswego undergraduates spent three weeks at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, this summer unearthing such fossils as the tiny jaws of ancient animals—and the fo

Research

Grant supports college's effort to protect rare moth, turtle habitat

August 8, 2016

SUNY Oswego faculty and students have taken on a project to slow or stop the advance of cattails threatening to choke the sensitive Oswego County habitat of two rare species, the bog buckmoth and bog turtle.

Community

Port of Oswego welcomes SUNY Oswego co-op workers

March 15, 2016

SUNY Oswego cooperative education student employees William Ernest and Alison Taylor (from left) speak with Port of Oswego Executive Director Zelko Kirincich and college President Deborah F.

Research

SUNY Oswego researchers share new grant to monitor fish for pollutants

November 4, 2015

Under a $1.5 million share of an Environmental Protection Agency grant, SUNY Oswego and its Environmental Research Center will continue in a research partnership that has documented marked declines in older chemical pollutants in the Great Lakes.

Science + technology

Oswego scientist on team reporting findings on tissue regeneration in Nature

October 26, 2015

Dr. Jennifer Olori of SUNY Oswego’s biological sciences faculty co-authored research published Oct.

Awards + honors

Academic advisement award honors three at SUNY Oswego

May 15, 2015

The SUNY Oswego President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advisement for 2015 will honor biological sciences staff member Lisa Brancato, Mary Rodgers of the finance faculty in the School of Business and Karen Wolford, professor of psychology.

Research

NSF grant to Oswego professor to offer student research opportunities

April 16, 2015

A major National Science Foundation grant recognizes the research and accomplishments of SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty member Christopher Chandler while providing research opportunities for his students at Oswego and overseas.