Nicholas Campbell, a SUNY Oswego senior who majors in cinema and screen studies and creative writing, won two Global Film Festival awards, Best Student Filmmaker and Best Horror Short, for his short film “Replaced.” The film was created during SUNY Oswego Film Club’s annual Panic Film Festival, where participants are challenged to create a short horror film in just 48 hours. Campbell wrote and directed the film with three other students on the crew; Sofia LeBron as the star and editor, Brian Maguda as the cinematographer and Danni Xu as the sound designer and production assistant. Read full story.
Issac McGee, a graduate student majoring in business and marketing education and entering the graduate educational leadership program, will continue a SUNY Oswego tradition as a finalist for the prestigious U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Award when he travels to the Czech Republic for several months. McGee will teach English as a teaching assistant from August 2024 to June 2025, and it is the next chapter in a transformation from the world of business into serving the world in the field of education. Read full story.
Students from the SUNY Oswego Technology Student Association continued their run of success in conference competitions, earning three second-place finishes and one fourth-place nod at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference in Memphis in March. The second-place success came in the manufacturing, teaching and technology challenges, with the fourth-place finish coming in the communication challenge. SUNY Oswego also was again recognized as a STEM School of Excellence, an overall designation for how well the department and university prepare future teachers. Read full story.
Wellness management major Carolyn Simplicio recently earned the 2024 Eta Sigma Gamma (ESG)/National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Outstanding Undergraduate Major of the Year Award. The award recognizes academic excellence as well as service to the community. Read full story.
Four Laker student-athletes recently earned All-American recognition for their outstanding and sustained performances in their sports. Being congratulated by President Peter O. Nwosu (center) are, from left, Charlie Grygas, wrestling; Shane Bull, men's hockey; Tyler Flack, men's hockey; and Jeremiah Sparks, men's basketball.
SUNY Oswego cinema and screen studies faculty members Tiffany Deater and Jarrod Hagadorn are among a select group that will take part in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)’s Stewardship of Public Lands program, an initiative of AASCU’s American Democracy Project. The year-long Stewardship of Public Lands program aims to foster innovative regional collaborations, responsible stewardship practices and experiential learning by bringing a variety of higher education practitioners to Glacier National Park to collaborate on overlapping projects. Read full story.
After May Commencement, global and international studies major Favoured-Joy Oghenekome will take the next step in a rewarding international journey with two intensive months of summer study in South Korea via the federal Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program. For the program, running June to August, Oghenekome joins a dynamic group of American students committed to studying critical languages. Read full story.
The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, or DAAD) has awarded a generous grant to Oswego student Marie Parker (shown with modern languages and literatures faculty member Patrick Schultz) for summer study in Germany. A junior from Rochester, Parker double majors in languages and international trade and in global and international studies. Parker will study the language, literature, culture, politics and economy of Germany during her month-long course. Read full story.
Four SUNY Oswego students were among the 193 system-wide honored recently with the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest such honor for students in SUNY. Earning the awards (from left) were: Hugh Riley Randall, a double major in physics and applied mathematics with a minor in astronomy; Infiniti Robinson, a double major in sociology and art (history emphasis) with a minor in arts management; Aziz Sarimsakov, a double major in adolescence education - grades 7-12/earth science and geology; and Amanda Streeter, a double major in biology and chemistry. Read full story.
Cheyenne Sinchico was recently selected by the SUNY system to receive a Norman R. McConney, Jr. Award for EOP Student Excellence. Sinchico, who majors in human development with a minor in health science, is a first-generation student and a transfer student from Onondaga Community College. The award recognizes students who have overcome obstacles while excelling inside and outside the classroom. Read full story.
Senior Caitlin Marx was among the winners recognized among the “Best in SUNY Art Exhibition” this semester. Marx’s piece “Vessel” was one of three “Best of SUNY” pieces among the select student artwork on display at the H. Carl McCall Building in Albany.
SUNY Oswego Student Association Vice President Oghenetega Adjoh was recently elected treasurer-elect of the system-wide SUNY Student Association for 2024-25. The sophomore double majoring in operations management and information systems and in finance was elected at the annual spring meeting of the General Assembly in April in Glens Falls.
Erin Czadzeck, a student in SUNY Oswego’s master of business administration (MBA) program, recently earned second place in the software and services category of the New York State Business Plan Competition for Insight, an app that would help fellow blind and visually impaired people pick out clothes independently and create outfits every morning. The New York State Business Plan Competition starts with around 400 competitors and only a dozen earn awards in the statewide competition, the top two in six categories. Read full story.
Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy Shashi Kanbur co-authored "Bridging theory and observations in stellar pulsations: The impact of convection and metallicity on the instability strips of Classical and Type-II Cepheids," published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal
David Crider, assistant professor of communication studies, was named the new chair of the Radio and Audio Media division of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) at the division's April 4 business meeting. His two-year term as division chair officially began at the close of BEA's annual conference, held last week in Las Vegas. Crider previously served two years as the division's vice chair and two years in the position of secretary/communication chair. Quoting the organization's mission statement, BEA is "the premier international academic media organization, driving insights, excellence in media production, and career advancement for educators, students, and professionals."
Seniors Nathan Crego (biology) and Alicia McKenzie (zoology) presented posters at the Northeast Natural History Conference in Alban on April 20. Both presented research as part of a long-term ecological restoration project directed by C. Eric Hellquist (biological sciences) that is controlling invasive cattails in an Oswego County wetland of conservation importance. McKenzie's poster was titled "Long-term Manual Control of Invasive Typha in a Central New York Fen to Reduce Thatch Accumulation." Crego's research poster presented "The Effects of Manual Cutting on Typha Inflorescence Production in a Central New York Fen." This research is funded by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District.
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