Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Alumni Mike Tanner and Cheryl Wintjen Tanner, both class of 1977, frame the setting sun, making for a silhouetted "postcard" of a SUNY Oswego/Lake Ontario signature event. The couple got married in their senior year and celebrated their 40th anniversary this June.

Ed Gosek (left), SUNY Oswego men's ice hockey head coach, works with a group of Little Lakers on July 7 at a hockey camp for players ages 5 to 9 in Marano Campus Center arena. Part of the Oswego State Lakers Summer Ice Hockey Camps serving players 5 to 18, Little Lakers teaches youngsters fundamental skills and fun things about hockey -- like how to celebrate their goals. In all, six sports offer summer skills camps; see http://oswegolakers.com/sports/2012/10/12/GEN_1012125806.aspx for details.

SRC Inc. employees graduating from a customized master of business administration degree program gather June 22 at Sheldon Hall before a special commencement to mark their achievement. The School of Business worked with the North Syracuse-based, not-for-profit research and development corporation to empower its engineers, managers and developers with knowledge of the business enterprise and to expand their leadership opportunities. Watch video story

SUNY Oswego administrators and faculty members and SRC Inc. executives celebrate the graduates of an MBA program put together exclusively for the company three years ago. College President Deborah F. Stanley (front) greeted and delivered the charge to the graduates at the special commencement in Sheldon Hall ballroom. Watch commencement video and see more photos

Laker Leaders arrive June 15 at Marano Campus Center to prepare for New Student Orientation sessions that began later that month. From left are junior Jake Small, senior Rachel Futterman, sophomores Eusebio Omar van Reenen and Emily Ziemba, junior Doug Woolever and sophomore Eddie Kelly. Laker Leaders are currently enrolled students in good standing who work with Orientation staff to help new SUNY Oswego students make the transition to college. 

Anabelle Maldonado (right) of Queens, who will start as a freshman childhood education major in August, speaks July 10 at First-Year Orientation about opportunities for study and travel with Julie Dale of the college’s Office of International Education and Programs. Taking part in Orientation's culminating Cruisin' the Campus informational fair, Dale, the study-abroad coordinator, joins employees of many other offices and programs at tables in Marano Campus Center to answer the questions of incoming students. The fourth of seven two-day programs for first-time college students entering as the class of 2021 will take place this Sunday and Monday, July 16 and 17. The second of three one-day orientation sessions for transfer students is going on today.

Students in the School of Business' Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession program visit Bonadio Group CPAs in Syracuse on June 28. In concert with the New York State Society of CPAs, every summer SUNY Oswego hosts COAP for minority high school students around the region. The residential four-day program showcases opportunities and builds skills for the world of business. Watch video story

A team from Kyrgyzstan takes part June 15 in Hewitt ballroom in the first ever robotics competition for GENIUS Olympiad at the seventh annual global environmental competition for high school students from around the world. Robotics joined science, business, visual arts, music and writing in the competition's categories.

A finalist in poster design, Aydana Mamatova (right) of Kyrgyzstan, awaits questions and comments from judge Jinyan Guo of SUNY Oswego's biological sciences faculty at the exhibition June 14 on Marano Campus Center concourse. Other arts represented at GENIUS Olympiad included satirical illustration, photography, short film, music (group, solo instrumentalist and singer) and creative writing (short story, poetry and essay).

Petra Mussungo (center) and Niria Cachimbombo (right) from Angola explain their science project researching the cleansing properties of the Borututu bark on June 14 at GENIUS Olympiad to science competition judge Diana Larrabee, a Syracuse high school teacher. Finalists in science submitted 338 projects designed to solve environmental problems.

High school students from among 69 countries and 37 states display cultural items -- traditional clothing, foods and more -- at GENIUS Olympiad's International Culture Fair on June 14 in Marano Campus Center arena.

Jordanian dancers perform June 14 on the GENIUS Olympiad stage in Marano Campus Center arena during the International Culture Fair, a colorful staple of GENIUS Olympiad. More than 1,000 students and their mentors attended the 2017 global environmental competition.