Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Keynote speaker Michael Corso (center) gathers March 29 in Hewitt ballroom with some of those participating in the sixth annual CNY Inclusion and Equity Summit, hosted by SUNY Oswego and co-sponsored with Le Moyne College and Onondaga Community College. From left are Ebru Altay Damkaci, Rodmon King, Kimberly Armani, Bennie Williams, Corso, Fairlie Firari, Sandra Bargainnier, Maria Malagisi and Meghan Peryea. Corso spoke on “Privilege, Oppression and Conflict.” (Photo by Erin Niland)

Rodmon King, the college’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, speaks March 29 in Hewitt ballroom as co-facilitator for the sixth annual CNY Inclusion and Equity Summit, hosted by SUNY Oswego and co-sponsored with Le Moyne College and Onondaga Community College. The summit sought to engage students, faculty and staff in learning experiences focusing on identity -- acknowledging all people have multiple, layered identities -- to help create a more conscious and inclusive campus culture. Those attending worked on understanding the intersections of identities and how those situate individuals within structures of privilege and marginalization, and constructed an action plan that seeks to foster understanding between individuals and communities.

Four SUNY Oswego teams presented their ideas at the Compete CNY business competition on Friday in Syracuse. Human-computer interaction master's students Bharati Mahajan, Khushboo Panchal and Joseph Gray, who earlier won the college’s Grand Challenges Makeathon with their water-conservation app Nero placed third in the Energy and Environment category. All Oswego participants and their proposals included, from left, junior marketing major Michael York and junior business administration major Aaron Shopland with Magnetic Waves, who earlier won the college's Launch It competition; junior cinema and screen studies major Victoria Gordon with Make A Doll Workshop; Mahajan, Panchal and Gray; and master’s in strategic communication student Fabio Machado with Charta, who earlier became one of four finalists with the County of Oswego's "Next Great Idea" competition. (Submitted by Pam Caraccioli)

Margaret Frye (left) and alumna Michelle Ziemba, class of 2015, speak March 27 in 231 Marano Campus Center to students at the Health Care Careers Conference about occupational therapy. Frye is a clinical associate professor at D’Youville College and Ziemba works as an occupational therapist at Developmental Therapy Associates. Occupational therapists help people across their lifespans participate in things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Scott Mattoon, a 1996 graduate and now a physician assistant with Interlakes Orthopedics, speaks alongside Vanessa Decker, SUNY Upstate’s director of recruitment, on March 27 in 232 Marano Campus Center during the Health Care Careers Conference. An array of health care professionals -- physicians, nurses, administrators, clinical psychologists, veterinarians and more -- spoke with students. Organizers included the Office of Career Services, the Health Professions Advisory Committee and Auxiliary Services. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship recipients working in Germany (from left) Michael Kaefer, 2017 graduate and English teaching assistant Fulbright; Kimberlyn Bailey, a 2016 graduate and research Fulbright; and Chris Byrne, a 2018 graduate and English teaching assistant Fulbright, get together at the 65th annual Berlin Seminar. The occasion, sponsored by the U.S. Fulbright Program, brings together more than 550 current Fulbrighters and friends of Fulbright for workshops, seminars, and networking. This year's seminar was held March 16 to 20. The Fulbright Program in February named SUNY Oswego to its 2018-19 list of top producers of successful applicants for Fulbright U.S. Student awards. (Submitted by Lyn Blanchfield)

Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie, assistant professor of sociology at Davidson College in North Carolina, speaks March 28 in Marano Campus Center auditorium on "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson and Other Stories of Our Social World" as part of the “I Am Oz” Diversity Speakers Series. He gave a wide-ranging talk that included topics such as food choice and availability in African American communities and how marginalized communities interact with the world. A signing of Ewoodzie’s book “Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip Hop's Early Years," followed the talk. (Photo by Erin Niland)

A master of the koto, the traditional Japanese horizontal harp or zither, Masayo Ishigure entertains an audience March 27 in Sheldon Hall ballroom. Ishigure, a veteran of performances in Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art and many more, had joined such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman on composer John Williams’ Grammy Award-winning soundtrack for the film “Memories of a Geisha.” (Photo by Gregory Caster)

Koto master Masayo Ishigure (front right) plays March 27 in Sheldon Hall ballroom as Mihoko Tsutsumi (back to camera), SUNY Oswego director of choral activities, conducts the college’s Women’s Choir during Ishigure’s concert for the Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series. (Photo by Gregory Caster)

Jayme McCreary, class of 2016 as an undergrad and a master’s graduate in 2018, talks about Bose Labs and the college’s human-computer Interaction (HCI) program March 29 in 150 Shineman Center. A former women’s ice hockey player at Oswego who earned her bachelor’s in computer science and master’s in HCI, McCreary now is a user experience designer at Bose Labs. The event was sponsored by Women in Computing and the HCI student organization, which focuses on creating, managing and attending activities, events and research project presentations for the program.

Alumna Jayme McCreary gathers with students active in Women in Computing and the Human-Computer Interaction Organization following her presentation about the HCI program and her work as a user experience designer at Bose Labs.

Admissions intern Cassie Carudo leads a tour March 29 of accepted students and family members coming from the informational sessions in Marano Campus Center arena. Besides campus tours and the information fair, Admitted Students Days include opportunities to speak with faculty, admissions staff, college offices and current students.

Tara Allen Magner (left), representing SUNY Oswego’s MBA program, and marketing and management faculty member Raihan Khan (right), associate dean of the School of Business, speak March 29 during the school’s Admitted Students Day with accepted student Sarah Thomas (center) and her mother and father, Thomas and Elizabeth. The School of Communication, Media and the Arts also hosted accepted students that day. The following day, the college welcomed admitted students from all majors.

Edward Hale, an assistant administrative lab director at Oswego Health, makes a presentation March 29 in 185 Shineman Center on "The Growth of the Chemistry Testing at Oswego Hospital." He discussed chemistry testing in the hospital’s laboratories: general chemistry, therapeutic drug monitoring, toxicology and virology among others. Yulia Artemenko, assistant professor of biological sciences, introduced Hale.

Steve Johnson (left) and Jacy Good, representing Hang Up and Drive, speak March 26 at Drive Safe, Live Safe, an event sponsored by University Police in Marano Campus Center arena. They shared their story of humor, love, tragedy and inspiration as told on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” at Maria Shriver’s 2010 Women’s Conference, the United Nations as guest of then-Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, in People Magazine and at more than 950 events. The event also included a variety of impaired- and distracted-driving simulators. (Photo by Gregory Caster)

University Police Officer Kelly Thompson and Chief John Rossi (back row, from left) join volunteers assisting March 26 in Marano Campus Center arena with Drive Safe, Live Safe, an annual series of presentations and demonstrations designed to promote the benefits of seat belt use and the dangers and consequences of impaired and distracted driving. (Jerry Maher photo submitted by Kevin Velzy)

Sally Familia (left), a senior creative writing major, offers a poem March 29 in reaction to the work of photographers Chris (center) and Arnie Galin as part of the Downtown Artists Series reception opening the Galins’ exhibition at Oswego State Downtown. The painting at left is senior art major Aaron Scott ‘s response to the colorful work of the Rome-based artists, who seek to capture nature in motion through the use of panning, zooming, tilting and other camera techniques -- to really “see” through the eyes of the camera. The exhibition runs through May 3. (Photo by Erin Niland)

Intensive English Program students volunteer March 27 at the Children's Museum of Oswego, painting walls to help the museum get ready for its reopening June 18 after extensive renovation. This is the first year the college has offered a full academic year intensive English program. Students (from left) Shenhao Hu, Peiwen Li, Haoyu Zheng, Umang Patel, Eun Chong Park and Hu Xing Zhao are studying to improve their English enough to matriculate as full-time students. (Submitted by Anneke McEvoy)

Several students stayed in town to do good deeds through the Alternative Spring Break “Staycation in March: Exploring Oswego County’s Challenges and Strengths” program. Shown helping with a ramp for a local resident in conjunction with mobility advocates ARISE are, from left, students Lingyu Zi, Arisleydis Taveras, Kahhar Roufai and Gabriella Perez with ARISE representative Dave Yerdon. The students also helped clear trails at Rice Creek Field Station and paint the Children’s Museum of Oswego, which is currently under renovation. (Submitted by SUNY Oswego Community Services)

The college’s Community Services Office coordinated spring breaks in March that took student volunteers to destinations that included the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virginia, Alabama and around Oswego County. Here students Amber Stickles (in front) and Olivia Colon help Habitat for Humanity build homes in Florence, Alabama. (Submitted by SUNY Oswego Community Services)