The college’s Richard S. and Barbara P. Shineman Endowed Fund Stewardship Committee is accepting proposals for grants to support educational and cultural opportunities conceived by campus members, with letters of intent due by Feb. 15.
Award amounts depend upon the scope of the project. Small Grants will be awarded for projects requesting $4,999 or less, and projects requesting $5,000 or more will be considered Large Grants.
Those invited to submit full applications will have a March 15 deadline.
The committee will prioritize projects that are collaborative, interdisciplinary and beneficial to the local community. Additionally, large-scale projects will be judged on their sustainability after initial funding. The college’s Shineman Endowed Fund is available on a competitive basis to SUNY Oswego campus members only.
For more information or to apply, visit the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Internal Grants website.
Named for the founding chair of the college’s chemistry department, the foundation strives to become a true catalyst for change in Oswego County through partnership and grant funding. Barbara Palmer Shineman, professor emerita of education, served as the founding catalyst for the Richard S. Shineman Foundation, in memory of her late husband.
"It was an exciting first round, with many excellent requests for funding," said Karen Goetz, executive director of the Richard S. Shineman Foundation. "Barbara Shineman is, and Richard Shineman would be, proud to know that these funds will be used to benefit SUNY Oswego, its faculty and students, and the greater Oswego community."
The following proposals were part of the first endowed funding round in fall 2022.
Matthew Dykas | Psychology | Circle Of Security Parenting Facilitator Scholarship Assistance 2021-2022 | |
Anneke McAvoy | Institute for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Transformative Practice | SUNY Oswego Dialogue Project | |
Michele Thornton | Management & Marketing | "Black Buck" by Mateo Askaripour. Using fiction to lead discourse on racial justice in the workplace. | |
Miranda Traudt | ARTSwego | Cirque Kalabante | |
Zachary Gold | Human Development | University-Community Partnership for Inclusive STEM Learning for Children with Disabilities | |
Alanna Ossa | Anthropology | Richardson Bates House Historic Preservation Field School | |
Yulia Artemenko | Biological Sciences and Chemistry Departments | Biotechnology Training Camp for High School Students | |
Elizabeth Keida | Health Promotion and Wellness | Discover Wellness: A Worksite Health Promotion Program for Oswego County Schools | |
Soma Frazier | English and Creative Writing | Subnivean: Amplifying Literary Voices in Oswego | |
Julia Koeppe | Chemistry | Enhanced Chemistry Department Seminar Program |
About the fund
The Richard S. Shineman Foundation celebrates and proudly takes an active role in reviewing grant proposals from around the SUNY Oswego campus for the Shineman Endowed Fund.
As the 233,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Richard S. Shineman Center for Science, Engineering and Innovation prepared to open its doors, the foundation made its first -- and still its largest -- commitment of $4 million in 2012 to establish an endowment to benefit the college. Coupled with another, immediate $1 million gift from Barbara P. Shineman, the donation to the Oswego College Foundation was, at the time, the largest SUNY Oswego had ever received.
The Shineman Foundation began making quarterly payments of $100,000 in 2013. To date, $4.2 million has been paid into the endowment. The value of the fund has grown to $7 million.
Goals included establishing the flexible pool of funding now known as the Shineman Endowed Fund to support collaborative educational and cultural opportunities that benefit the Oswego community, brought forward by SUNY Oswego professors and department chairs.