Around the SUNY Oswego campus

The Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit panel discussion, with a theme of "Trust Transformed: Media and the Public, 15 Years Later" was moderated by 1994 Oswego graduate Kendis Gibson (left), anchor host of “MSNBC Live” on weekends,  joined by this year’s panelists, from left, Doug Schneider, a watchdog reporter for USA Today Network-Wisconsin and writer for the Green Bay Press-Gazette; Sharon Newman, senior producer on the MSNBC program “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” as well as a 1979 Oswego graduate; Jennifer Williams, senior foreign editor at Vox and co-host of Worldly, Vox's foreign affairs podcast; and Cristina Domingues, anchor of “Your Morning Rochester” and midday shows for Spectrum News. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Student Ethan Magram asks a question to the Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit panelists in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre during the Q&A session on Oct. 23. The panel discussion engaged an overflow crowd and #OzMediaSummit once again trended on Twitter as the participants discussed the media and public trust. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Marissa Sarbak -- a reporter/anchor for News 12 New York, host of American Kennel Club’s AKC TV and a 2015 SUNY Oswego graduate -- and 2014 Oswego graduate Matt Bishop -- a producer and AKC TV technical director and studio manager for B Live LLC and a former general manager for WTOP -- talk with students during the Career Connectors event, part of the day long Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit on Oct. 23. Seven alumni returned to campus to participate in this year's networking event in Tyler Art Gallery, which provided networking opportunities for current students.

John Popovich, chair and associate professor in the career and technical education department at Buffalo State, discusses "A Behavioral Model for Classroom and Laboratory Management" on Oct. 25 in 202 Park Hall during the 80th annual Technology Fall Conference. His talk, presenting a useful model for all levels of educators to use to teach skills and concepts, was among 62 presentations and workshop sessions for the well-attended conference, Oct. 24 and 25 in Wilber and Park Halls, hosted by the college’s technology department.

Leif Sorgule, a technology teacher at Orchard Park Schools and presenter at the 80th Fall Technology Conference, explains how to create a working Mars rover robot that will engage students in robotics. A 2009 undergraduate and 2012 master’s graduate of Oswego, Sorgule was among many alumni who presented, with many more returning as attendees working in the field.

Michaela Smith (center) recently became the latest participant in the college’s Festa Graduate Leadership Fellowship. The mental health counseling student earned the $4,000 fellowship and an intensive placement at Farnham Family Services in Oswego. Dean of Graduate Studies Kristen Eichhorn and President Deborah F. Stanley congratulate Smith. The Festa Graduate Leadership Fellowship seeks accomplished and motivated individuals who are eager to prepare for greater leadership responsibilities within their communities and professions. Alumni Fred Festa (class of 1981) and MaryLynn Barbero Festa (class of 1982) established the fellowship.

Justin McKissick and Emily Ziemba, representing Career Services, talk with students Oct 24 in the lobby during Penfield Library’s hosted Success Fair. The event provided an opportunity for students to meet with campus partners who support student success. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Take Back the Night participants took part in the annual event to show unity and support against sexual violence and assault, this year on Oct. 23. Coordinated by The Women’s Center on campus, the well-attended event included sign-making, short speeches, a walk around campus and an opportunity to meet with Services to Aid Families advocates. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

SUNY Oswego employees and students supported Wear Pink Day on Oct. 25 as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month activities. The on-campus effort, dovetailing with the State Employees Federated Appeal campaign to support local charities, benefited the Oswego County Opportunities Cancer Services Program.

Junior forward Leah Czerwinski (#17) shoots the puck as the Laker women’s hockey team opened the season with an exhibition game against the London Jr. Devilettes on Oct. 19. The visitors rang up a 4-0 victory in the exhibition, but the Lakers rebounded for a 4-1 win over William Smith in an Oct. 23 exhibition game. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Rehearsals have begun for this year’s student honors production “Dead Man's Cell Phone,”  directed by Ahmanee Simmons. In this publicity photo taken in the River’s End Bookstore in downtown Oswego, Gordon (Sean Ryan) chats on the phone as Jean (Anastasia West) and Dwight (Jeremiah Brunje) read, unaware of the intrigue about to unfold. The production will run Nov. 20 to 23 in Tyler Hall’s lab theatre.

Oct. 22 was It’s On Us Pledge Day, and students from It’s On Oz were in Marano Campus Center, offering T-shirts to those who take the pledge to stop sexual violence. Those helping out included, from front left, volunteers Rayne Polkowski, Thuc Vo, Xiya Yang and Maribeliz Morales; and, back from left, Lisa Evaneski, Title IX coordinator; Erin Barile-Bluff; Isabella Winklestine, educator/advocate for Mary Walker Health Center; Ryan Kostusiak; and Nosa Akol.

Student tour guide Corey Cesare leads a group near the east entrance of Marano Campus Center facing the Shineman Center during the first Fall Admissions Open House of the year on Oct. 14. An additional open house took place on Oct. 19, with the third and final campus-wide open house of the semester scheduled for Veterans Day, Nov. 11. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Jason Keeler, a 2007 Oswego graduate, presented the Science Today talk "Connecting the Dots: Using Mobile Mesonets as a Tool for Studying Storms" on Oct. 16. Now a faculty member at Central Michigan University, Keeler described how mobile mesonets can fill in the gaps left by the Automated Surface Observing Station network, the scale of which makes it difficult to investigate smaller-scale weather phenomena such as lake-effect storms. Here he speaks with Scott Steiger of Oswego’s meteorology faculty.

Sustainability Office interns held a donated clothing sale in the Marano Campus Center concourse to raise funds for the purchase of new trees to plant on campus as a way to celebrate next year's 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Kailey Emm, left, shops for clothes while interns (from left) Spencer Johnson, Alina Rinaldi, Natalie Trainor and Lauren Fitzgerald help out. The fundraiser was their final project of the fall 2019 semester.

The past weeks have seen the fall foliage showing out, including this Oct. 25 view that greeted attendees of the 80th annual Fall Technology Conference who came via the north entrance of the Wilber and Park atrium, the conference headquarters.