A local Climate Action Rally, sponsored by the SUNY Oswego Anthropology Club, from noon to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, will join a worldwide effort to bring attention to climate issues.

The event will start with a march from Sheldon Hall to the Marano Campus Center lawn. Activities will include speakers, a performance by the Image Step Team and slam poetry, as well as information about challenges to the Earth's climate and environment.

The Write Ways workshop series -- open to all students, staff and faculty -- has returned for the fall semester. The next installment is "Navigating the Blackboard Jungle," on discovering the writing gems and treasures Blackboard has to offer. Christine Hirsch and Katharine Dutton will present on the topic on Friday, Sept. 13, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Classroom 215 of Penfield Library.

Free Mindful Yoga classes return at 4 p.m. every Friday in 302 Lee Hall. This three-part restorative practice focuses on body/mind/breath awareness, mindful movement, and appreciation of the present moment. Each of the three sections last approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Latecomers are welcome to join at anytime during the first 30 to 40 minutes. 

World-renowned puppeteer and guest teaching artist Christopher D. Mullens will present a multimedia Appalachian storytelling experience at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in Marano Campus Center auditorium, room 132.

Inspired by first-person accounts, this multi-disciplinary collaboration between theatre, film, art and photography students and faculty working in puppetry, fabrication, foley sound, cinematography, experimental film developing and editing created four one of-a-kind vignettes ready for screening, produced in just five days time.

To the Members of the Campus Community:

The process by which SUNY Oswego recommends nominees for SUNY awards and the promotion to Distinguished Professorships involves the actions of a selection committee.  

The selection committee is responsible for soliciting campus nominations, reviewing nomination files, evaluating all nominees, and ranking nominations as a recommendation for action by the President.

Dear faculty and students,

On behalf of the Eta Omicron chapter of Phi Beta Delta of the SUNY Oswego Institute for Global Engagement, I invite you to submit nominations for membership to this Honor Society for International Scholars.

You may choose to nominate faculty, staff, and/or students. Acceptance and membership recognize outstanding faculty, staff, and students with international experience who have significantly contributed to expanding world awareness and global engagement at SUNY Oswego.

Due to the Oswego County Energy Recovery Facility being closed for maintenance from Sept. 3 through Sept. 30, the Confidential Burner Run scheduled for Sept. 17 has been cancelled.

Those who have already signed up for the September Confidential Burner Run have been added to the October run, which will take place on Oct. 15. If you have any questions, please call the Facilities Office at 315-312-3200.