Psychology Department

In winning a big SUNY award –- the only undergraduate to do so –- May 2025 SUNY Oswego psychology graduate Patrycja Kulesza attributed the accomplishment to a team effort, and the accumulation of many smaller steps and interactions.

Gabriella Patterson, a double major in wellness management and psychology, will present research at Quest on April 23 that examines how to better prepare students for success in college and beyond.

For Katie Karlen, a SUNY Oswego dual major in psychology and public relations, a Quest poster presentation promoting a better understanding of neurodiversity comes from a longstanding interest.

SUNY Oswego psychology faculty member Mark Mirabito has earned the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching.

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.

SUNY Oswego psychology faculty member Sien Hu will study the impacts of aging and related impairments on the human brain, thanks to a five-year grant of more than $2 million total from the National Institutes of Health.

For SUNY Oswego student Naw Ka Paw Paw, earning a position in SUNY’s 2022 Premedical Opportunity Program will continue building toward a dream that could lead to establishing clinics in her homeland of Myanmar.

SUNY Oswego student Horane Daley recently released his second book, “The Boy That Wrote Love,” a collection of poems that explore love, heartbreak, healing and self-love.

SUNY Oswego senior psychology major Quinn Ceilly’s current research project focuses on such common challenges as anxiety, overthinking and related issues that might deserve more exploration, with support from a campus grant.

Abigail Lashinsky, a junior double majoring in wellness management and psychology, will explore student-athletes’ connections to wellness, a sense of belonging and the impacts of the pandemic as part of a Quest presentation on April 6.