Each year the university recognizes the outstanding scholarly and creative activities that are conducted by SUNY Oswego faculty. The nomination window for these awards is now open.

The Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee recommends faculty members to the President and Provost who have been nominated for the following awards:

SUNY Oswego is committed to providing its students with a learning-centered environment in which the focus is squarely on providing excellent learning and growth opportunities for students. This commitment to educational excellence requires that truly exceptional teachers are recognized, celebrated and rewarded for their contributions to the learning environment.

The SEFA (State Employees Federated Appeal) committee and SHOP (Students Helping Oz Peers) are teaming up to collect new and gently used (clean) warm-weather clothing to support those on campus in need.

Organizers are seeking hats, gloves, coats and scarves, but no shoes or boots, please.

Donations are welcome in bins around the campus through Friday, Feb. 9, and will be distributed through SHOP shortly after that.

Nearly 60 Oswego High School (OHS) Students visited Penfield Library on Tuesday, Jan. 9 to learn about library resources, how to conduct college-level research, and what academic support services are available to college students at SUNY Oswego.

Tickets are now on sale for the public and campus community for the 35th annual MLK Ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre. The event will feature a keynote on “From Myth To Man: A Martin Luther King Interpretation” by Ira Knight.

The event will include student readings and performances as well as additional remarks. Tickets are free, but are required for the ceremony and can be obtained at tickets.oswego.edu.

SUNY Oswego is excited to announce that Phase I renovations of The Space in Marano Campus Center have been completed and it will be available to reserve, starting on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.

During the semester break, several Brightspace enhancements were completed.

Brightspace home page changes

The overall page layout was updated. The My Courses widget was moved to the top portion of the page to increase visibility. A new Career Services widget was added to the bottom portion of the page and the Tutoring Resources widget was moved to this location, too.

The campus Winterfest will offer a variety of activities on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Marano Campus Center food and activity court.

Activities will include the always-popular build-a-buddy, a henna tattoo artist, a caricaturist, a mobile escape room, DIY reed diffusers, a mechanical reindeer, miniature photo snow globes and a hot chocolate bar.

In addition, free open skate and skate rental will be available from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The Sigma Pi chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the national communication honor society, inducted four new members in all 2023. These members are:

- Katie Karlen, public relations, Class of 2025
- Emily Cornell, communication, Class of 2024
- Lethe White, broadcasting and mass communication, Class of 2024
- Tina Cooper, strategic communication master's degree program