Penfield Library will host a Research Party from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23.

All students are welcome to come for pizza and snacks and to get help with their research. Librarians and peer tutors will be on hand to help with finding scholarly sources, formatting citations, writing and more. No appointment is necessary. Students are welcome to drop in and join the community.

Health Services is sponsoring free flu immunizations for students age 18 and above on from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, on the second floor of Hewitt). Anybody with questions or needing accommodation can contact Health Services at 315-312-4100.

Future dates for free flu immunizations for students will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 16 and Oct. 23 in the same location.

State University of New York Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson announced Oct. 10 the formation of the SUNY Student Mental Health and Wellness Task Force. The group will make recommendations on how the system can make a measureable difference in addressing the mental health needs of students and mitigating the negative effects of behavioral health risks, including suicide.

The 13th annual Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference, Oct. 11 and 12, is free to attend and open to all.

This year's theme ties in with the Institute for Global Engagement's ongoing Year of Turkey programs.

The chemistry department’s instrumentation specialist, Fred Scoles, will be retiring after 36 years of service to SUNY Oswego.

The campus is invited to a celebration on Friday, Oct. 25, from 2 to 4 p.m. in 225 Shineman Center to wish him well in his retirement.

SUNY Oswego will conduct a simultaneous, campus-wide test of the college's emergency communication systems today (Oct. 10, 2019).

At approximately 11:15 a.m. this morning, the college will send messages via NY-Alert, the college website, campus phones including classroom and conference phones, teaching station computers, emergency broadcast system outdoor speakers and digital signage. 

A "Watch & Talk" event connected to the First Year Signature Course program will feature the popular Netflix series "3%" in a screening and discussion starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Marano Campus Center auditorium.

SUNY Oswego is recruiting mentors for a partnership with the New York State Mentoring Program and Leighton Elementary School in Oswego.

The next session in the weekly Write Ways series will explore "Some of Those Other Punctuation Marks" at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in Penfield Library's Classroom 215. 

Those attending the workshop presented by Steven Smith will learn more about how to use the semicolon, colon, dash and parentheses. Workshops are free and open to all students, staff, and faculty.

The first presentation of the Economics Departmental Workshop will feature SUNY Oswego alumnus and former faculty member Kpoti Kitissou at 4:30 p.m. today (Oct. 11) in the CELT Conference Room (Room 123, Penfield Library). Kitissou is now assistant professor of economics at SUNY Oneonta. 

He will share his paper, “Condom, Promiscuity, and HIV Infection: Evidence from Southern Africa,” which was recently presented at the New York State Economic Association Conference. Admission is free.