College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) had a successful return to campus, recruiting around 110 students to this program, which helps underrepresented and/or economically disadvantaged students thrive in STEM or professional licensure fields, and naming Christina Vasquez its new director.

Dave Valentino’s “Physical Geology” course is intended to provide a foundation for future geologists. This semester’s course has probed the past around campus while making the present more meaningful for students.

Recent SUNY Oswego graduate Tonia Sanzo and senior Wyatt Matt earned the top prize at DandyHacks 2020 tournament in late October.

The annual Oswego Town Rural Cemetery: Ghost and History Storytelling Tour will appear virtually this year, with a total of five online showings from Nov. 27 to 29.

SUNY Oswego creative writing faculty member Juliet Giglio and her husband Keith continued an annual holiday tradition of writing a Lifetime Network movie, with “Dear Christmas” debuting 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27.

Jaclyn Schildkraut, an associate professor of criminal justice at SUNY Oswego who specializes on the topic of mass shootings, is again collecting holiday cards in support of families impacted by these tragedies.

In a semester that includes a pivotal election on national, state and regional levels, the college’s nonpartisan Vote Oswego civic engagement effort itself had to pivot -- instead of information tables and face-to-face events, the student team has relied on tools like Zoom, Slack and Google Drive to power its activities.

“Midwest Gothic,” a new award-winning book from English and creative writing faculty member Laura Donnelly, brings together a collection of poems on the themes of family, memory, history and a sense of place.