Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Lakerfest on Sept. 8 features games, food, prizes and more for a large student turnout at Onondaga Field, presented by the Office of Residence Life and Housing. Therapy pets remain a popular attraction, as students can feel the love of four-legged friends like River, owned by Nancy Concadoro of the college’s Office of Human Resources. (Photo provided by Nancy Concadoro)

Participants plant 2,997 flags between Marano Campus Center and Cooper Dining Hall, an annual temporary memorial to honor those who have lost their lives -- including 12 SUNY Oswego alumni -- during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 -- and, due to the toxic after-effects, through the present day. Students, University Police, New York State Police, ROTC from the Army and Air Force, firefighters from local units, faculty, staff, administrators and community members also attended a 9/11 Remembrance and Flag Ceremony on Sept. 5. On the anniversary of the event, community members also visited the college’s permanent 9/11 Memorial Garden on the south shore of Glimmerglass Lagoon near the walking path, which honors the 12 alumni lost that fateful day.

Placing a group of flags together in remembrance of fallen Oswego alumni in the 9/11 display are (from left) Thomas Hardman; Jason Harry, vice president of co-organizers the Oswego Young Americans for Freedom; Valerie Shoykhet; and Tyler Toomey of the memorial’s other co-organizer, the Oswego College Republicans.

Field hockey players Jesse Burggraff (left) and Alyssa DeMichael, both freshmen, enjoy a session of Student Drop-In with President Deborah F. Stanley (right) Sept. 6 in the Marano Campus Center food and activity court. The president periodically schedules time to sit down and talk with students one-on-one about any campus concerns they may have.

UCLA professor Suk-Young Kim (left), an expert on the K-Pop music phenomenon and keynote speaker for SUNY Oswego’s Year of Korea, meets with Ulises Mejias (center), director of the college’s Institute for Global Engagement, and Scott Furlong, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Sept. 14 at the formal kickoff event in Marano Campus Center auditorium.

A professor of critical studies and director of the Center for Performance Studies at UCLA, Dr. Suk-Young Kim makes a keynote presentation Sept. 14 titled "The Many Faces of K-pop Music Videos" during SUNY Oswego’s formal launch of the Year of Korea in Marano Campus Center auditorium. The SUNY Oswego Institute for Global Engagement, organizer of the annual "Year of" series, plans numerous events in 2018-19 to raise awareness about and inform people throughout the campus and community about Korea.

A large turnout, led at the start by Team RWB (Red, White and Blue), took part in CNY SAVE’s Stride to Save Lives 5K walk/run Sept. 15 on campus, an event geared toward suicide awareness and prevention. SUNY Oswego alumna Jamie Leszczynski founded the annual event and local SAVE chapter after losing her brother Ryan to suicide. The eighth edition of the yearly gathering had a large turnout of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members.

Mathematics major Marquia Williams presents her poster, “The Art of Tiling and Generating Functions,” Sept. 14 during the Summer 2018 Scholarly and Creative Activities Symposium. Her faculty mentor for the project was Elizabeth Wilcox of the  mathematics department. The poster was one of nearly 40 presentations from summer research funded by Challenge Grants, Faculty-Student Scholarly and Creative Activities Grants, Possibility Scholars, Global Laboratory, National Science Foundation Step Grant and High School Scholars at SUNY Oswego.

Counseling and psychological services graduate student Nicole Maether explains her presentation, “A Collaborative School Mental Health Program: Responsive Interventions Designed to Empower Students,” to communication studies faculty member Taejin Jung, director of the Research and Individualized Student Experiences (RISE) program, at the Summer 2018 Scholarly and Creative Activities Symposium on Sept. 14 in Sheldon Hall ballroom. Maether worked with counseling and psychological services faculty member Cory Brosch in one of many student-faculty collaborations represented at the event, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the RISE program.

Fayetteville photographer Willson Cummer (center) speaks Sept. 13 at the reception for artists whose works were selected for the “Picture 81” exhibition at SUNY Oswego’s Syracuse campus. Art faculty member Amy Bartell (to Cummer’s left), the college’s coordinator of community arts programming, looks on as Cummer explains the vision for the Facebook group of the same name. The project artistically documents the before, during and after of the end-of-life viaduct that bisects Syracuse. The exhibition of photos, paintings and drawings runs to Nov. 1 in the Atrium building, 2 Clinton Square.

Anthony Petrozzino (holding a coiled data cable), project engineer at Diversified Systems, speaks to officers of WTOP-TV during  the company’s visit to campus Sept. 10 to install equipment, adjust technology and train the students who will operate WTOP-TV in Marano Campus Center for 2018-19. In the foreground (from left) are Melissa Wilson, general manager; Justin Kraus, vice president of technology; Chris Sannuto, live sports engineer; Andrew Gilbert, information technology director; and Josh Holfoth, vice president of operations. In the background at the console are Pat Moochler (left), broadcast engineer for communication studies, and Patrick Grand Jean, Diversified technician.