Around the SUNY Oswego campus

WTOP-TV hosts an exclusive breakout session April 8 in Marano Campus Center's Al Roker Studio for outgoing seniors, as Alumna-In-Residence and WSYR-TV broadcast reporter Tammy Palmer (right), class of 1998, meets with Shanna Fuld, a dual major in broadcasting and mass communication and in Spanish.

CNY Central morning show producer Brittany Hoffman (foreground), class of 2014, works April 8 with senior broadcasting and mass communication major James Walters as part of WTOP-TV's Alumni-In Residence sessions with outgoing seniors. The Alumni-In-Residence (AIR) Program brings accomplished Oswego alumni back to campus to share their knowledge and career experiences with current students.

Maeve Kraiger of White Plains (center), a class of 2020 student majoring in art, and her mother, Lyra Hawkins, speak with Cristal Contreras (back to camera), a dual major in marketing and Spanish representing the Office of International Education and Programs at Admitted Student Day for the School of Communication, Media and the Arts on April 14 in Marano Campus Center convocation hall and arena. The event was designed for freshmen and transfer applicants who have been admitted to the school and wanted more information about its majors and about the college.

Jennifer Shropshire, class of 1986, delivers the keynote address April 15 at the college's annual Honors Convocation in Marano Campus Center convocation hall and arena. "Whether you are black, white, Latino, Asian, bicultural, multicultural; whether you are male, female, transgendered; Republican, Democrat or Independent; urban, suburban or rural; athletic, artistic or entrepreneur: Promise me you will speak up and share your voice, as though it is a valuable thing. Because it is. I'm counting on you to speak up and be heard," she told around 115 students receiving academic honors and others in attendance. From left, Pam Michel, dean of the School of Education; college President Deborah F. Stanley; and Samantha Kaye, president of Vega women's honor society, listen to Shropshire, a principal at Edward F. Swenson & Associates, a management and fundraising consulting firm to nonprofit organizations.

The college's SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence recipients gather with their certificates April 5 in Albany at a ceremony at which Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher presided. From left are Iain Thompson, a biochemistry major with pre-health emphasis; Juanita Diaz, a zoology major who minors in geology and biocultural anthropology; and Tyler Pelle, an honors dual major in meteorology and applied mathematics. The award, the highest one through the State University system, honors students excelling in academics, leadership and community service.

Sophomore wellness management major Mackenzie Mayo (second from left) lines up to sign the "It's On Us" pledge and receive a T-shirt April 6 on Marano Campus Center concourse. It's On Us Pledge Day, part of the It's On Us Week of Action on college campuses across the nation, raises awareness of sexual assault. Auxiliary Services and the Title IX Committee sponsored the event. To join college President Deborah F. Stanley and others signing the action-oriented It's On Us pledge, visit http://itsonus.org/#pledge.

The State University of New York has named 11 SUNY Oswego students recipients of 2016 Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarships. The program of direct aid seeks to attract and retain undergraduate students to SUNY campuses who have demonstrated high academic achievement and can demonstrate they will contribute to the diversity of the student body. From left are Howard Gordon, executive assistant to President Deborah F. Stanley; Madison Emily Marie Shaw, Gaitri D. Rodhan, Harleen Kaur Grewal, Cuifen Zhuang, Zhiqiang Ke, Autumn Caldwell, Kyle Anthony Martindale, Sequoya Anita Fitzpatrick, Yan Carlos Minaya, Katelyn Zheila Zhinin, Admissions Director Daniel Griffin and Jennie Hoffman of the Office of Financial Aid. Missing from the photo is scholarship recipient Sharon E. Lapointe.

Recent SUNY Oswego alumnus Peter Myers, who, with his production team, won two awards for animation at the seventh annual SUNYWide Film Festival on campus April 8 and 9, leads a festival workshop on stop-motion animation in Marano Campus Center. The films "Orchestrate" and "Yakinaoshi" swept the animation category. (Submitted photo by Amy Shore)

The theater and music departments' spring musical "Space Pirates of Planet Penzance" will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hewitt ballroom, featuring the talents of such actors as sophomore theater major Caren Celine Morris (pictured), who plays the communication officer in the futuristic adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera "Pirates of Penzance." Morris also is helping run the college's Instagram account this week as a Laker Takeover. The play — featuring updated lyrics to “Major-General’s Song” and other tunes from the original — continues its run at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and April 29, with a finale at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1. Tickets are $15 ($5 for SUNY Oswego students) — all seats are $5 for a preview at 7:30 p.m. Thursday — and are available at all college box offices, online at tickets.oswego.edu and by calling 312-2141.

Sophomore John Karlya (right), a cinema and screen studies major, donates to the double red cell collection unit April 6 during a blood drive on the Marano Campus Center arena mezzanine. Assisting is Asia Brooks, a donor specialist with the Syracuse Red Cross.

The Oswego State softball team secures its 10th win on April 17, the most in the last two years, as Tori Trovato (pictured) continues to dominate at the plate. Through games of Saturday, she was hitting .509, tops on the team and in the SUNY Athletic Conference. The Lakers were 10-10 overall entering last night's scheduled non-league game at Hamilton, and 4-6 in the conference ahead of Friday's scheduled doubleheader against SUNY Potsdam at Laker Softball Field.

Eric Hamilton ties the Lakers record for home runs in a season with 11 as the Oswego State baseball team sweeps the Brockport Golden Eagles in a three-game series last weekend at Laker Baseball Field, claiming the top record in the SUNY Athletic Conference at 10-2 (23-3 overall). The team, ranked No. 4 in the country by d3Baseball.com, is on a 15-game win streak, the longest current streak in Division III. Hamilton, named SUNYAC Player of the Week for the week ending April 17, leads the conference in batting average (.439), slugging percentage (.898), hits (43), RBI (38) and home runs (11).

College President Deborah F. Stanley speaks April 13 with senior geology major Frances DeFilippo during the Quest poster session in Marano Campus Center convocation hall and arena about the mineralogy of the jade-composite sphere in the college's ceremonial mace. DeFilippo's faculty sponsor is Paul Tomascak of atmospheric and geological sciences. The College Mace was a gift from the class of 1969 to former President James Perdue. Then-art professor Joseph F. Shoenfelt created its design and silver work, while technology education professor emeritus William D. Todd shaped its rosewood shaft. The sphere symbolizes wisdom and knowledge.

Kevin Wanniarachchi Kankanamalage explains his research poster, "Expression Pattern of KRT15 During Chick Embryogenesis," to Yanfang Wang during the poster session in Marano Campus Center convocation hall and arena April 13 at Quest, the college's annual day to celebrate faculty-mentored student creativity and scholarship, as well as that of faculty and staff.

Senior Joan Bristol (right), shows her wooden sculptures — she won a Presidential Purchase award from the juried student exhibition in Tyler Art Gallery earlier this semester — to junior Arleny Espinoza during Quest's Art Department Showcase in Room 114 of Marano Campus Center.

Samantha Kaye, a senior graphic design major and photography minor, talks about her January 2016 photographs illustrating contemporary culture in Cuba with Sean Campbell, a junior computer science major, during Quest's Art Department Showcase.

In the Quest poster session, Kelly Jones (second from right) discusses "Avoiding Threats: Testing a Curvilinear Relationship Between Sensory Capacity and Avoidance Orientation," a research project on human behavioral reactions to threats she co-authored with Leandra Infante (not pictured).

Logan Killian (left), a senior public justice major with minors in technology and creative writing, explains his research project, "Hydrogen and Oxygen Assisted Car," during the Quest poster session in Marano Campus Center arena.

Students mentored by marketing and management faculty member Ding Zhang (not pictured) make a presentation April 13 at Quest about their city of Oswego winter parking study, which seeks solutions to the persistent issue of what to do when off-street parking is at a premium and the city implements an overnight on-street parking ban to ease snow removal. The team developed mathematical models to determine costs and benefits of clearing snow from a single winter storm. At the end of the semester, the team plans to reach a conclusion on which option is the best solution and present it to city officials, college faculty and other interested stakeholders. (Submitted photo by Robert Ruggio)

Senior biology major Wyutyi Kyaw talks with a visitor about her research project on snails, "Life Cycle and Pathogenicity of Protometra sp. (Digenea: Azygiidae) in Rice Creek," during the poster session at Quest in Marano Campus Center convocation hall and arena.

Students contributing to the college's interdisciplinary Exist interactive multimedia magazine display their work in Room 114 of Marano Campus Center during the Art Department Showcase, which also featured Oswego Reading Initiative promotional materials, the Found Negative Project, advanced painting projects, ceramics, web design and permaculture apps, among others.

Kenny Roffo, a senior dual major in physics and computer science, presents his project to develop a variation on Rubik's Cube in Room 242 of Marano Campus Center during Quest.