Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Silhouetted student volunteers fill some of the more than 2,000 comfort kits for victims and survivors of violence as part of the SUNY’s Got Your Back event March 5 in Sheldon Hall ballroom. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Hundreds of student volunteers and employees helped with the March 5 SUNY’s Got Your Back event in Sheldon Hall ballroom, filling comfort kits for victims and survivors of violence, and learning methods of better preventing and responding to violence. The event was part of a statewide effort. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Zeke Thomas, a survivor of abuse and a popular DJ, appears on stage March 5 in Sheldon Hall ballroom for his rhythm-and-remarks presentation during SUNY’s Got Your Back. Every day in New York state, adults and children seek assistance from hospitals, rape crisis and domestic violence shelters. Often they come in with little more than the clothes they are wearing; volunteers here created hundreds of comfort kits for victims. SUNY Oswego's Title IX Office and It's On Oz co-sponsored this, the third annual event. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Laker women's hockey coach Diane Dillon holds the Spirit of Community Award she received March 13 from United Way of Oswego County for the many ways she and her team have supported countless community causes. Joining her, from left, are players Eryn Stewart, Victoria Rankin, Mikaela Ditonto and Avery Webster, along with Patrick Dewine, executive director of the United Way of Oswego County. (Submitted by Kristin Gublo)

Narrator Bruce Coville (blue jacket), a 1973 Oswego alumnus and famed author of science fiction and fantasy books for children, takes a bow with the rest of the cast of “The Astronaut’s Tale,” a chamber opera about one man’s quest for new frontiers in outer space, following their performance March 16 as part of a Society for New Music concert in the Bristol IMAX Omnitheatre at the Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse celebrating a half-century of NASA space missions. From left are Corrie Raulli as Ann, Daniel Fields as Abel, Coville, and David Neal as Sam Peccavit. The opera shared the program with the premiere of Oswego music faculty member Paul Leary’s “Larger Than Us.”

Paul Leary (left) of the music faculty talks with flutist Kelly Covert, one of seven members of the supporting chamber orchestra, prior to the March 16 premiere of Leary’s musical and visual presentation “Larger Than Us,” an otherworldly homage to the Apollo 8 mission into lunar orbit, a step toward landing men on the moon nearly 50 years to go. Leary’s invention, a 9-foot-tall pendulum, played a supporting role.

George Koenig, professor emeritus of modern languages and literatures, examines the detail work of ceramic sculptures on display in “A Tribute to Richard Zakin,” which runs through April 7 in Tyler Art Gallery in conjunction with the annual Faculty Art Exhibition. Michael Flanagan, the gallery’s director, said, “Last year we lost Richard Zakin, for four decades a professor of ceramics at SUNY Oswego. In addition to being an inspired teacher and artist, Richard was a scholar on the technical aspects of ceramics and he authored many books and articles on the subject that benefited artists worldwide." (Photo by Erin Niland)

Helen Zakin (center), an emeritus professor of art, greets recipients of Richard Zakin Memorial Art Scholarships, Kiera Thompson (left), who earned the award for 2018-19, and Margaret DeJohn, recipient for 2019-20. Helen Zakin established the scholarship in memory of her husband of 48 years, the late Richard Zakin, also an emeritus professor of art. The three gathered for a photo at the March 8 reception for “A Tribute to Richard Zakin,” an exhibition at Tyler Art Gallery in conjunction with the Faculty Art Exhibition.

Those attending the March 8 reception for the Faculty Art Exhibition admire the artwork on display in the companion exhibition, “A Tribute to Richard Zakin.” SUNY Oswego’s art faculty are showing their recent creations, coupled with ceramics and two-dimensional works by longtime Oswego professor of art Richard Zakin (1937-2018), who was a dedicated and inspirational teacher, masterful artist and noted scholar and writer on many aspects of ceramics. The exhibitions will run to April 7. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Jacob Dodd (foreground), an English and creative writing faculty member who teaches in the cinema and screen studies program, introduces speakers Jennida Chase (left) and Hassan Pitts of University of North Carolina-Greensboro on March 5 for a collaborative media artist talk that included a screening and a question-and-answer session. Chase and Pitts appeared for S/N (Signal-to-Noise), a multidisciplinary art group that works extensively with video, sound, animation, photography and mobile media. Their work has been exhibited and screened worldwide in various festivals, galleries and museums, including Hong Kong Art Fair, Pekin Fine Arts, DAS Weekend, the Freies Museum in Berlin and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. (Photo by Gregory Caster)

Local musicians and bands perform in competition March 13 in Hewitt ballroom, including Evan Diem, stage name for 2017 broadcasting and mass communication alumnus Evan Debevec-McKenney. Battle of the Bands was sponsored by WNYO-FM -- the college’s student-run radio station -- and SubCat Studios. Oogle, a band that formed among SUNY Oswego students, emerged from a strong field as the winners. (Photo by Gregory Caster)

Viewed between onlookers, rapper Gio -- stage name of senior broadcasting and mass communication major Giovany Brice -- performs March 13 during Battle of the Bands in Hewitt ballroom. (Photo by Gregory Caster)

More than 100 businesses, organizations and campus offices staff tables where representatives speak with hundreds of students March 6 at the Spring Career and Internship Fair in Swetman Gym. The students explored opportunities for internships while in school and jobs beyond their years at Oswego. At the table in the right foreground is Amanda Hughes (blue shirt), owner of The Ice Cream Stand in Syracuse, talking about her company's internship opportunities with seniors Michelle Uroza (in black sweater) and Olivia Fitzwater (hooded winter coat).

The Spring Career and Internship Fair draws sophomore Kayele Spencer (left) to Swetman Gym on March 6, where she speaks with Sean Butterworth, a partner with New York Life Insurance Co. in DeWitt.

Paul Austin, a 1989 Oswego alumnus, talks March 12 in Marano Campus Center auditorium about IBM’s Corporate Service Corps Program. Austin is senior manager for WebSphere Development at IBM. He appeared as part of the Division of Development and Alumni Relations’ award-winning Alumni-In-Residence program. (Photo by Gregory Caster)

Microsoft’s David Pearlman (in red), a 1992 alumnus and director of U.S. Education for the global technology corporation, poses March 12 for a group photo following Pizza with Professionals, an Office of Career Services program that gives students the ability to sit down with successful Oswego alumni and discuss topics that are useful when entering the workforce. (Submitted by Jacqueline Wallace)

David Pearlman, Oswego class of 1992 and director of U.S. Education at Microsoft, makes a March 12 visit on behalf of the Alumni-In-Residence program to Gi Woong Choi’s class in human-computer interaction. In his role with Microsoft, Pearlman has partnered with educators and education health care organizations to use digital solutions and map out strategies that will enhance their strategic missions.

Matt Dykas, chair of psychology, speaks March 8 in Penfield Library’s Speakers Corner to a new class of trainers-in-training for the internationally recognized Circle of Security Parenting program. The effort seeks to impart practical lessons from attachment theory to parents around Oswego County, to break the intergenerational cycle of child abuse and neglect. The program made a big leap in momentum locally with the recruitment of 42 candidate trainers from 17 agencies, organizations and institutions in the area. Among the introductory session’s speakers was Kristi Eck, chief of staff to college President Deborah F. Stanley.