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Dorobsho Sharipov, a student at Dushanbe Haji Kemal Tajik-Turkish High School, Tajikistan, presents “Thermoelectric Power,” at the GENIUS Olympiad opening exhibition June 27. The weeklong competition included 196 projects from 34 countries and 31 states.

GENIUS unites nations, solutions

Joseph Meyer of Oregon has created a new energy source and solution to a pair of pollution problems. Mashiad Mostafa and The Ngone Oo of Myanmar have discovered non-chemical ways to enhance a traditional homeopathic mosquito repellent … And they’re not even out of high school yet.

Psychology major Nikki Packard ’11, left, talks with the wife-and-husband team of Kristin Mosher ’89, center, a much-published wildlife photographer, and Bill Wallauer, videographer for the Jane Goodall Institute, Feb. 10 during a visit to Distinguished Service Professor Paul Voninski’s Anthropology 280 class in Mahar Hall.

Alumna Shares Photos of Chimps

Chimpanzees are a lot like humans, sharing 98 percent of the same DNA and many personality traits. That fact was in evidence in a special multimedia presentation on campus in February by wife-and-husband photography and video team Kristin Mosher ’89 and Bill Wallauer.

10×10+10: KaeLyn Rich

10×10+10: KaeLyn Rich

KaeLyn Rich ’05 has been an advocate for social justice as long as she can remember.

Senior Game Producer Jeffery Gardiner '95 speaks as part of the Living Writers Series in October.

Alumnus Helps Games Tell Great Stories

The term “video game” might conjure up images of space invaders, barrel-flinging apes or a pair of super brothers: kids’ stuff.

Kenneth Hyde (in blue lab coat) retired after four decades of teaching chemistry.

Science sage Hyde retires after 43 years

After four decades in Snygg Hall, Kenneth Hyde, distinguished teaching professor of chemistry, traded in his course notes for a hammer and level. Retiring after a 43-year career in the classroom, he has a new avocation: fixing up an old camp on the south shore of Skaneateles Lake, where he and his wife will spend time in retirement.

Charles Trabold '50, M '53, seeded a scholarship fund in honor of his late wife, Nancy Trabold.

Art-Loving Nancy Trabold Remembered with Scholarship

Charles Trabold ’50, M ’53 fell in love with his first wife, the late Nancy Busco Trabold, for her love of life, art and colors. Now he and their three daughters — Marilyn, Lisa Trabold ’04 and Beth — are keeping Nancy’s memory alive by supporting a scholarship for an Oswego female student interested in the fine arts.

Matthew Cutillo '95

Meistersinger had Roots in Oswego

They say music is the universal language. From Oswego venues like
the DK house or The Patch to a ’70s revue tour of Germany to special events on the U.S. East Coast, Matthew Cutillo ’95 has been making beautiful music in more than one language.

March Harris

Fulbright scholar explores higher ed

Mark Harris was a mid-career educator at Southbank Institute of Technology in Australia when he decided to “have a go” that put him on track to retrain faculty instructors in new techniques for vocational teaching.

Assistant Professor of Biology Amy Welsh studies a fish once thought extinct.

Fish commission funds sculpin study

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission has awarded a SUNY  Oswego conservation geneticist a $62,822 grant to study small, bottom-dwelling Lake Ontario fish called deepwater sculpin — once thought extinct there.

Rhonda Mandel, left, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Webe Kadima, associate professor of chemistry, look over SUNY Oswego’s successful application for a $200,000 grant to study the status of women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, disciplines at the college. Kadima is principal investigator for the two-year National Science Foundation catalyst grant. Researchers aim to learn whether anything — from policies to practices — holds back women in STEM in terms of recruitment, hiring, retention and promotion. The award will help determine whether SUNY Oswego may be a candidate for a much larger  “institutional transformation” grant.

$200K funds study on women in sciences

SUNY Oswego’s will receive a $200,000 grant to study the status of women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, disciplines at the college.