If having more time at home has you dreaming of redesigning your home or home office, 1983 Oswego graduate Nancy Fire has some suggestions through "Setting Your Quarantine on Fire," a free online session at noon on Wednesday, April 14.

Nancy Fire is chief inspiration officer and founder of Nancy Fire Designs and Design Works International, and a former design director for HGTV and HGTV Home. In this interior design workshop, she shares up-and-coming home trends and expert tips on how to design the spaces in your home to reflect your unique style.

Dining Services wants to hear from students and all of its customers to potentially extend its offerings.

If you have a favorite recipe that you would like to see in the dining halls, please submit your recipe using this link. 

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Jen Little at jennifer.jones@oswego.edu or 315-312-4205.

The Health Promotion and Wellness Club and the Health Promotion Honorary Society are sponsoring a 1-mile walk specifically for SUNY Oswego employees from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23, the college's second Wellness Day.

"This is a thank you for employees for all they do and a way to encourage wellness across the entire campus by having employees get out and walk, even if it is remote," said health promotion and wellness faculty member Elizabeth Keida.

The Office of Learning Services  is providing in-person drop-in tutoring sessions in Penfield Library's Room 112B (OLS Conference Room). No appointment is needed.

Course-specific drop-in sessions include:

The Office of Learning Services is providing online drop-in writing help from tutors for any and all courses across the disciplines. No appointment needed.

Drop-in sessions are available Mondays and Tuesdays from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Visit the OLS website for more information.

The next installment of "My Identity & My Career" Instagram Live series will feature an 8 p.m. interview on Thursday, March 25, featuring 1992 alumna Thaina Gonzalez, director of the executive office and board relations for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), and member of the Oswego Alumni Association Board of Directors.

I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Murat Yasar as the incoming associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences beginning July 1. From now until July, Murat will be serving as CLAS Dean Fellow where he will be taking a leadership role in several initiatives in the Dean’s Office.

He succeeds Dr. Patricia Clark who has admirably served as both Associate Dean and Interim Dean of CLAS, and now plans to return to the classroom as a full-time member of the faculty this fall following a productive and well-earned sabbatical this semester.

Due to a technical matter, the opening of the Blackfriars Student Theatre Production "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" has been pushed back a day to Friday, March 19.

Written by Bert V. Royal, the play unfolds as an unofficial sequel to "Peanuts" where the characters have grown up and explore life and more adult questions.

With spring moving forward, the Division of Extended Learning wants to get the campus thinking about summer, summer playlists and Summer Sessions.

Extended Learning is compiling a weekly themed Sounds of Summer Playlist, starting this and every Monday morning for the next five weeks. Each theme is associated with summer sessions courses. 

Dr. Michael Murphy will present "Hey, I Like That: Writing from Models" at 3 p.m. Friday, March 26, in the next installment of the Write Ways Series.

Students and writers are often told to “be original,” to “write what you know,” and especially to “write in your own voice.” But people learn much about how to write from models — pieces of writing they find compelling. This workshop will explore how to find and use rhetorical models in your writing.