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College communications win honors

College communications win honors

The online edition of OSWEGO alumni magazine, Oswego’s online annual report and a video promoting the theatre and music departments’ production of “Grease” were recognized in the 2012 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence competition, which highlights work by professional communicators across North America.

Psychology major Kristyn Bermingham ’12 works with furry friends such as Hana, an Akita mix, at the city’s Oswego Animal Shelter as part of the service learning requirement. Oswego continues to add courses with service learning components as part of its commitment to community engagement.

Oswego repeats national distinction for community service

For the second straight year, SUNY Oswego appeared among the select group of schools named to the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction — a list Oswego has made every year since its 2006 debut.

Clemo named academic vice president

Clemo named academic vice president

President Deborah F. Stanley has announced the appointment of Lorrie Clemo to the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Co-op program will provide students earn-learn work experience

Co-op program will provide students earn-learn work experience

Oswego is launching the SUNY system’s first multiple-major co-op program, which can place students into full-time paying jobs for up to six months.

Oswego expands relationship with Zhejiang university

Oswego expands relationship with Zhejiang university

The leaders of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou, China, and SUNY Oswego have signed a “two-plus-two” agreement to jointly deliver bachelor’s degrees to Chinese students in three majors: business administration, human resource management and marketing.

Business students receive ethics award

Business students receive ethics award

SUNY Oswego’s student chapter of Beta Alpha Psi in the School of Business recently received one of four $5,000 ethics awards presented by Grant Thornton LLP, an audit, tax and advisory organization.

SUNY Oswego a perennial  best in college guides

SUNY Oswego a perennial best in college guides

U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2012 and Princeton Review included Oswego in The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2012 Edition.

Officials from Sovereign Bank/Banco Santander, the State University of New York system and Brazil’s State of Alagoas visited SUNY Oswego in May to preview the work that 15 SUNY students will do this summer at Oswego’s global laboratories in Brazil under the first phase of a $160,000 Santander-funded project.

Grant Supports Undergraduate Research in Brazil

Oswego students Earl Bellinger ’12 and Janet Buckner ’12 eagerly tell how their summer 2010 work at the college’s global laboratories in Brazil studying the stars and surveying wildlife has opened opportunities for them as future scientists.

The Village

Village certified gold by U.S. Green Building Council

SUNY Oswego showed its green and gold colors once again as the new Village townhouse complex was recognized for its energy efficient design in January.

Oswego alumni collaborated with 2010 Nobel winner

Oswego alumni collaborated with 2010 Nobel winner

“Not everybody gets to say that they worked with a Nobel Prize winner,” said Michael Plante M ’75. He is one of more than a dozen chemistry students of Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus Augustine Silveira from the 1970s to 1990s who can say just that.