Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Electrical and computer engineering majors Tyler Bouldin (left), Kevin Burkey (second from right) and Tyler Burns (right) discuss their “Search and Assist Unmanned Ground Vehicle” as ECE faculty members Sungeun Kim and Mario Bkassiny look over the project at Quest. The vehicle is equipped with numerous functions, including remote drive, navigation and live video.

For his Quest presentation on April 4, “Boston & Back: An Album,” senior music major Jacob Saeva (second from right on bass) augments his talk with live performance of songs from the original album he recorded with the help of a campus grant from the Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee. Joining him for a Quest performance are, from left, Chris Spinelli on keyboards, Dan Litavsky on drums and Conor Kolupski on guitar.

Anisha Melton, a first-year psychology and business administration dual major, explores African-American music artists in her Quest presentation, titled “Sounds of Blackness,” also one of the research presentation highlights from the Maarifa symposium, held in February and organized by the Black Student Union.

Art education graduate student Alyssa Caldwell (left) displays her works of ceramic, acrylic paint, fishing line, plants and water, which included a waterfall titled “weeping clay” in the Art Department Showcase during Quest in Room 114 of Marano Campus Center. At right is art faculty member Rebecca Mushtare.

The School of Education’s Teacher Opportunity Corps II students lead a seminar-style, moderated panel presentation titled “Why Representation Matters,” a discussion focused on diversifying the teaching workforce. Panelists (from left) are Ashley Kirkland, Milena Toribio, Tamara Dalton, Ashley Sewer and Melannie Ulloa. Moderator was Amanda Ebrahim (out of camera view), a graduate student in strategic communication and graduate assistant at TOC II.

Students of political science professor Helen Knowles present their research titled “Politically (Un)offensive T-shirts,” which examines the question of free speech in context to Minnesota statutes banning political buttons near polling places. With the poster at Quest are (from left) Edward Kelly, Seth Fisher, Nicholas Stubba, Ericka Solomon, Rachel Allen, Jordan Harcleroad, Erin Meyer and Andre Nichols. Missing from the photo are Jashaun Allen, Akim Cadet, Veronica Devries, David Dyche, Genesis Vasquez, Langhston Smith and Brandon Twiss.

Brian Abad of the SUNY Oswego Investment Club takes his turn during a Quest presentation titled “The Warren Buffett Stock Selection Method,” which the student organization uses to select stocks for the $300,000 portfolio it manages as part of Oswego’s endowment. Key metrics include balance sheet measures of solvency and income statement measures of return. Other team members during the School of Business session in Room 133 of Marano Campus Center are (from left) Ashly Arbizu, Amy Alba and Shawn Rousseau.

A dozen graduate students competed in the first Oswego installment of the 3-Minute Thesis competition, which asked competitors to summarize their thesis research in three minutes or less while using only one slide. Master's in chemistry student Alison Taylor (pictured) earned first prize ($500) for her presentation, "Is Bitter Bad for Beer?" Second place ($250) was human-computer interaction major EunSeo “Amber” Bang's "Virtually Empathetic." People's Choice Winner ($250), as voted by attendees, was master's in chemistry student Kimberly LaGatta's "Determining Pharma-Facilitated Felonies." Reid Adler, a graduate assistant for the Division of Graduate Studies, proposed and coordinated the contest, which unfolded in the Marano Campus Center auditorium at Quest on April 4.

Lisa Marceau Schnorr (right) -- a class of 1987 alum, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Constellation Brands wines and spirits division, and Oswego Alumni Association board president -- was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the premier international honor society of AACSB-accredited business programs, during a ceremony and reception April 4 at Quest in Marano Campus Center. Presenting is Richard Skolnik, dean of the college’s School of Business.

Honors Convocation keynote Kathy Bower -- a 1985 alumna and attorney and managing partner of Connecticut-based law firm Gager, Emerson, Ricker, Bower & Scalzo -- speaks April 6 in Marano Campus Center convocation hall at the Honors Convocation, which recognized 115 students across all disciplines with departmental awards and scholarships. Sponsored by Vega, the SUNY Oswego student women's honor society, the event takes place during Oswego's Honors Week, highlighting the outstanding accomplishments of students and faculty. Awards from academic departments, the Oswego Alumni Association, Oswego College Foundation and Division of Extended Learning, as well as the Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence, marked the celebration of academic success.

The college’s 2018 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence winners pause for a photo with Dr. Kathleen Evans (right), SUNY Oswego assistant vice president for student development, following the April 10 presentation in Albany of the highest recognition students can earn through the State University system. From left are Zachary Hiris, Holly Reitmeier, Stephanie Facchine, Rachael Bishop and Ian Evans.

Attendees at the LELACS (Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies) Colloquium on "Framing and Negotiating Conflict in Latin America,” organized by Georgina Whittingham from the college’s department of modern languages and literatures, gather April 7 at SUNY Oswego. LELACS is a network of scholars who specialize in Latin American studies at universities throughout New York state. Speakers included Margarita Vargas from the University of Buffalo; Tracy Lewis and Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti, both of SUNY Oswego; and Luisa-María Rojas-Rimachi from the University of Rochester. Whittingham worked jointly with LELACS members from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, a regional collaboration among Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, the schools of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium -- Colgate, Hamiltion, Hobart and William Smith, Skidmore, St. Lawrence and Union -- and Le Moyne College. (Submitted by Georgina Whittingham)

Danielle Gilbert-Perper -- a 2003 undergraduate and 2006 master’s graduate of Oswego -- delivers a Silveira Lecture titled "Seize Your Opportunities.” Gilbert-Perper has 14 years of experience with Johnson & Johnson within the areas of quality lab and information science. The April 12 talk in the Marano Campus Center auditorium was part of the Augustine Silveira Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series, named for the popular and prolific distinguished teaching professor of chemistry.

Jennifer Sawyer Norvell, an alumna of the class of 1993 and complex litigation counsel for U.S. Army Trial Defense Service, talks with a student April 10 during her class visit in Room 104 of Lanigan Hall to give a talk on "Forensics in the Courtroom.” Norvell appeared on behalf of the college’s Alumni-In-Residence program.

With less than two weeks of classes remaining in the spring semester, the Tutoring Center continues to offer valuable one-on-one help. Exchange student Sara Melisa Duran Jerez (right), a business major, gets help April 10 with her group-project finance class assignment from tutor Nicholas Tortolon, a senior finance and business administration major. Located in Room 173 of Marano Campus Center -- on the lower level of the Poucher wing --  the center provides walk-in and appointment tutoring in the humanities, modern languages, math and sciences, business and accounting, and social sciences.

The Ask Oz student help center sets up shop April 9 on the Marano Campus Center concourse. Shareese Worrell (seated at left) speaks with Sheila Cooley, associate director of the Center for Experiential Learning in charge of the Cooperative Education Program, while (standing from left) Stephanie Lopez and Phoenix Boisnier talk to Rosemarie Pupparo from First in the World Transfer Gateways and Completion, a strategic initiative which provides support for transfer students.  

Women's lacrosse upset #15 Geneseo 11-9 on Wednesday, following up on a week with emphatic road wins over New Paltz and Fredonia. Brigid Regin (pictured against Brockport on March 31) notched 12 points in two contests last week on 11 goals and an assist. The Lakers are 4-2 in the SUNY Athletic Conference, 8-4 overall. (Photo by Chuck Perkins)

Oswego State golfers Erik Schleicher (second from left) and Corey Marshall (second from right) gather with others named Empire 8 second-team all-conference. The Lakers finished in second place at the Empire 8 Championship on April 15 at Hershey Country Club in Pennsylvania. The Lakers are scheduled back in action April 24 as they travel to the Elmira College Spring Invitational.