Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Student Association president Takayla Beckon receives her degree during the 9 a.m. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement ceremony. She also gave the student address from the platform during each of the three commencement ceremonies May 14.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences graduates beam with pride and enthusiasm during their ceremony May 14.

Joseph Lauko, executive vice president and chief operating officer for SRC Inc. and chairperson of SRC International Inc., addresses the graduates at the 9 a.m. ceremony for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Graduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences line up outside Marano Campus Center before their 9 a.m. Commencement ceremony in the Deborah F. Stanley Arena and Convocation Hall.

Jason T. Serrano, a 1997 SUNY Oswego graduate and chief executive officer and president of New York Mortgage Trust Inc., addressed the graduates of the School of Business at the 12:30 p.m. Commencement ceremony.

Graduates at the 12:30 p.m. School of Business Commencement receive their degrees and celebrate the moment.

SUNY Oswego Officer in Charge Mary Toale presided over all three May 14 Commencement ceremonies and encouraged the graduates to continue striving for success.

Susannah Melchior Schaefer -- a class of 1990 alumni, president and chief executive officer for Smile Train -- received an honorary doctorate degree during the 4 p.m. School of Communication, Media and the Arts and School of Education Commencement ceremony. Schaefer also served as Commencement keynote for the ceremony. Officer in Charge Mary Toale and Scott Furlong, provost and vice president of academic affairs, bestow the honor.

Graduates smile during the 4 p.m. School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education commencement ceremony.

Graduate Jessica Burnett presents the Alumni Banner with SUNY Oswego's Officer in Charge Mary Toale during the School of Communication, Media and the Arts and School of Education commencement ceremony.

The Senior Sing performance ushers in the beginning of the Commencement Eve Torchlight Ceremony May 13.

Trudy Perkins, a 1993 alumna and acting chief of staff and communications director for Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, delivered the keynote address at the 2022 Commencement Eve Torchlight Dinner and Ceremony on Friday, May 13. She has been active with the Alumni-In-Residence (now Alumni Sharing Knowledge) programs, Return to Oz reunion for alumni of color planning committee and Local Lakers regional events program. Perkins served as a featured panelist at the Dr. Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit in 2018, was featured in an episode of the Oswego Alumni Podcast, and currently serves as a member of the Oswego Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Amaya Corporan (second from left) sits among fellow graduating seniors at the annual Commencement Eve Torchlight ceremony held May 13. Corporan presented the Class of 2022 Alumni Banner on the platform the following day at her graduation during the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement ceremony.

Gabriele Candela, who graduated the following day, provided the Student Speaker address for the Torchlight Ceremony on May 13.

The class of 2022 Outstanding Senior Awards were bestowed upon Yadira (Yadi) Aranda Burgos (left) and Helena Buttons for their contributions to the campus. Read the full story about their accomplishments.

The Laker baseball team continued its run in the NCAA Tournament by winning three straight games to stave off elimination in the regional round. Because of weather and other delays, it took until midday Monday for them to win their second consecutive game over host Arcadia University in Pennsylvania to advance to Super Regionals this weekend. They will face Marietta College of Ohio in a best-of-three series on Friday and Saturday, with the winner advancing to the College World Series.

The annual OzFest returned with an afternoon of campus activities followed by an evening concert headlined by Ari Lennox. The campus community enjoyed many inflatable games and fun challenges.

Oswego's seventh annual Yards for Yeardley on April 27 had enthusiastic participation by students, employees and community members to raise awareness of and prevent dating and domestic violence. Organizers set an overall goal of walking, running or rolling 1 million yards in one day on the Academic Quad, and recorded 1,776,775 yards in total. Yeardley Love was a senior in college at the University of Virginia when she was killed three weeks before graduation, and the One Love Foundation formed in her honor.

The University Police held its annual community cookout on April 28 in the Pathfinder Quad (behind Onondaga). Partnering organizations Alpha Phi Alpha and Delta Phi Epsilon coordinated the yard games and helped promote the event, which received an attendance of around 750 people.

SUNY Oswego intern and lab employee Lindsay Fluman checks samples of agricultural product imported into the new grain lab, an ongoing partnership between the Port of Oswego Authority and SUNY Oswego.

The Port of Oswego Authority (POA) recently held a ribbons cutting to officially open its state-of-the-art grain testing lab, a partnership with SUNY Oswego and part of the new $15 million Grain Export Center, said William Scriber, POA executive director. The lab is operated by paid student interns from SUNY Oswego. On-hand for the event were, from left: Scott Furlong, provost and vice president for academic affairs, SUNY Oswego; intern Jon’ Rene Jones; intern Flemmie Tyson Jones; Pat McMahon, POA supervisor, development and maintenance; Scriber; Francis Enwright, chairperson, POA board of directors; SUNY Oswego Professor Cleane Medeiros, director of the Agricultural Testing and Analysis Laboratories; interns Sean Erhardt and Lindsay Fluman; Jill Pippin, dean of the Division of Extended Learning for SUNY Oswego; Connie Cosemento, vice-chairperson, POA board of directors; and Brenna Sherman, Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce.

The Oswego Bookmobile collected donations of books through a campus-wide drive by the SUNY Oswego SEFA committee. Pictured at the pickup in Culkin Hall lobby are, from left: Bonnie Perfetti, Bookmobile Book Committee chairperson; Susan McBrearty, president of the Oswego Bookmobile; and SEFA Committee members Shelly Sloan from the Office of the Dean of Students and Kristen Haynes, assistant director of Rice Creek Field Station.