Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Participants in the annual ALANA Fashion Show display flags of many nations Sept. 22 in Hewitt ballroom to demonstrate both the diversity and the togetherness of the student cultural organizations represented in the African, Latino, Asian and Native American Student Leadership Conference.

Dancers from the African Student Organization provide entertainment and education Sept. 22 during the ALANA Fashion Show. Also on hand was perennial favorite DJ Tumbo, a 2012 alumnus also known as Rufaro Matombo.

Latino Student Union members take a turn displaying their threads at the popular ALANA Fashion Show on Sept. 22 in Hewitt ballroom.

Members of the Black Student Union display both clothing and solidarity Sept. 22 during ALANA’s annual celebration of cultural fashions.

Alumni Student Leadership Panel participants (from left) Moraima Capellán Pichardo, class of 2014; Sanjeev Kumar, class of 2015; Alexis Salkey, class of 2018; and Chris McPherson, class of 2012 respond to questions about the value of campus leadership and student involvement as stepping stones to careers on Sept. 21 in Marano Campus Center. The session -- and a networking opportunity that followed -- were part of the 32nd annual ALANA Student Leadership Conference, whose theme was “Pioneering Voices.” ALANA student leaders Herlene Jorge, from the Latino Student Union, and Rayshon Neptune-Ramsay, from the Caribbean Student Association (not pictured) moderated the panel.

ALANA keynote speaker Sandra Michaca (center) holds a networking session with student in the Point before her formal ALANA keynote on Sept. 24. Maggie Rivera, the college’s student involvement coordinator, is seated next to Michaca, an immigration attorney for the Piemonte law firm in Charlotte.

Led by representatives of cultural organizations during the ALANA (African, Latino, Asian and Native American) Student Leadership Conference, the eighth annual Unity Peace Walk on Sept. 23 brings students, faculty and staff from all walks of life together with Oswego community members.

College President Deborah F. Stanley (front) walks alongside Provost Scott Furlong, vice president for academic affairs, and Deborah Furlong, director of institutional research and assessment, during the eighth annual ALANA Unity Peace Walk on Sept. 23. Walkers made the trek from City Hall to campus with a goal of building lasting relationships with the community on and off campus.

Paloma De La Rosa, a junior language and international trade major with a minor in graphic design, introduces the speakers Sept. 26 in 114 Marano Campus Center for a presentation titled “Puerto Rico: A Report on the Island from a Cultural-Historical Perspective to Present” during the ALANA Student Leadership Conference. Gonzalo Aguiar (right), faculty member of modern languages and literatures, spoke about Puerto Rico's history and culture in regard to its complex relationship with the United States, and Maggie Rivera, student involvement coordinator, talked about her experience last summer as part of the SUNY Stands with Puerto Rico volunteer effort.

Students, faculty and staff from around campus gather Sept. 18 to honor the late Mary Gosek, a 30-year college employee who helped lead the Totally Teal fight against ovarian cancer, and to raise awareness and funds to continue the effort on behalf of Hope for Heather, a nonprofit Central New York organization. Participants wore teal on Tuesdays throughout September.

Gage Davidson (foreground), a senior computer science major, works Sept. 17 in Shineman Center with a far-wavelength infrared thermal imaging video camera, or FLIR, for Davidson’s senior thesis project. Computer science faculty member Bastian Tenbergen (center) and senior computer science major Jim Spagnola assist. Tenbergen explained that the equipment superimposes an image as zones of color that correlate to differences in temperature, while at the same time the target subject’s shape is shown as a reference by the higher resolution standard video image.

A Happy Birthday Constitution party, Sept. 17 in the Marano Campus Center food and activity court, comes complete with a cake and pizza to honor the signing of the U.S. Constitution on the same day in 1787. Student participants and volunteers include (from left) Jared Esposito, Connor Douglass, Veronica Devries, Kristen Igo, Esther Loja and Christi Raia.

Constitution Day participants play informative games -- including Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, Ships and Shoes (a variation of Monopoly) and Constitutional Jeopardy -- Sept. 17 in Marano Campus Center’s food and activity court. Representatives of Community Services and the Vote Oswego student voter registration project hosted the event.

Participating in a panel discussion titled “I, Too, Am Study Abroad: Student Identities Overseas” Sept. 25 in 133 Marano Campus Center are (from left) Micah Pasinski, who studied abroad in Madrid, Spain; Isabella Falcigno, Jamaica; Carolyne Sanchez, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Angelina Colone, Sydney, Australia; George Gurgis, Costa Rica; and Fadi Gaye, France.

Micah Pasinski, who studied abroad in Madrid, Spain, talks Sept. 25 in 133 Marano Campus Center with students during the informal networking session after a panel discussion highlighting identity, society, culture and diversity during study-and-travel experiences around the world.

Chantel Vactor (center left), a senior sociology major, and Kacee Biggs (center right), a senior broadcasting/communication major, learn more about study abroad opportunities Sept. 24 along the Marano Campus Center concourse from Amy Wallace (left) and Kelsey Gillett (back to camera) representing SUNY Oswego’s Office of International Education and Programs during the on-campus Study Abroad Fair. Students learned about study abroad opportunities all across SUNY, which offers hundreds of programs on all seven continents.

Anisha Melton (left), a sophomore psychology major and business administration minor, talks with Theresa Misiaszek, representing Cayuga Community College’s London program, Sept. 24 during the Study Abroad Fair along the Marano Campus Center concourse. Misiaszek is an associate professor of criminal justice teaching sociology in the London program, and is also an Oswego alumna, class of 1990. 

Essayist and novelist Valeria Luiselli (second from left) and Associate Provost Rameen Mohammadi (right), chair of the Oswego Reading Initiative Committee, join students Kaela Otero-Lush (left) and Vanessa Wiltsie, a senior chemistry major and forensics minor, following a dinner Sept. 27 in 201 Marano Campus Center for Luiselli and committee members. Author of an extended essay titled "Tell Me How It Ends," an exploration of the journey of undocumented Central American children as they are vetted for asylum in the United States, Luiselli later spoke about her book in the Hewitt ballroom. ORI committee member Mark Mirabito of the psychology faculty invited the students, both in a class of his, to the dinner.

Brian Stratton (left), director of the New York State Canal Corporation, moderates an audience Q&A session Sept. 27 in Marano Campus Center auditorium with panelists participating in an Erie Canal Bicentennial discussion of New York’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) program and how it is transforming DRI communities all along the state’s historic canal system. Panelists represented Rome, Geneva, Watkins Glen and Oswego (William J. Barlow, Jr., mayor of the city of Oswego, is seated at left). College President Deborah F. Stanley (not pictured) introduced Stratton and the panelists, each of whom discussed specific economic development initiatives underway due to Gov. Cuomo’s DRI. The program annually provides $100 million -- $10 million to each of 10 communities that demonstrate plans for transformative downtown investments -- each year through a nomination process initiated by the state’s Regional Economic Development Councils.

Photographer and environmental activist LaToya Ruby Frazier (center, in blue jacket) discussed “Flint Is Family" on Sept. 28 as part of the I Am Oz Diversity Speaker Series. Frazier's appearance also ties in with SUNY Oswego's two-year "Grand Challenges: Fresh Water for All." She has actively supported artists in Flint, Michigan, in the wake of the city's water crisis, and produced "Flint Is Family," a 2016 project in black and white photography and short films. Joining her for a snapshot are students, from left, Eusebio Omar Van Reenen, Christopher Maddaloni, Jake Small, Lizeth Ortega, Marie Castro, Lucas Grove and Mabel Munoz.

SUNY Oswego student Alex Chambers (left) and Oswego Mayor William J. Barlow Jr. mark the Sept. 20 launch of the city’s new electric car charging station on West Second Street between the police station and City Hall. The recently installed charging station is part of an effort to be designated a clean energy/smart city community by NYSERDA (New York State Energy and Research Development Authority).

During Banned Book Week, Penfield Library and creative writing program faculty teamed up for an outdoor event on Sept. 20. Students read aloud from banned books, created bookmarks of themselves holding a banned book, created "READ" lapel buttons, competed for free copies of books and read information about the history of American banning of books. Over 200 people showed up, and 100 of them got books. (Photo submitted by Leigh Wilson)

Humphrey Fellows hosted by Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Administration gather Sept. 28 outside Penfield Library with faculty and staff of SUNY Oswego’s Institute for Global Engagement and Office of International Education and Programs. In 2009, the Maxwell School began hosting the international professional development and cultural exchange program, founded 40 years ago by President Jimmy Carter to honor the late U.S. Sen. Hubert Humphrey. This is the third year the Fellows have traveled to the program’s affiliate site of SUNY Oswego. (Submitted by Martha Haddad Ketcham of Maxwell’s Office of Executive Education Programs)

Mavrick Boejoekoe (dark sweater, gesturing), a Humphrey Fellow from the South American nation of Suriname, talks in the Speakers Corner of Penfield Library with SUNY Oswego students during the “speed meetings” portion of the Fellows’ Sept. 28 annual day in Oswego. Every seven minutes, participants moved to another table to ask questions of a different one of the 13 fellows. Each year, Syracuse University hosts young and mid-career professionals from developing nations and emerging democracies for a year of professional development and related academic study, as well as cultural exchange.

The college’s golf team won its fourth straight Oswego State Fall Invitational on Sept 30, shooting a two-round 611 for a 13-stroke victory in the 11-team field at Oswego Country Club. Medalist Corey Marshall, who tied career-bests for 18 holes (72 on Saturday) and 36 holes (148) over the weekend, led Oswego. Sean Paul Owen had the best 18-hole round of the weekend, shaving 11 strokes off his Saturday score to post a one-under 70 on Sunday. From left are coach Mike Howard, Owen, Ryan Fecco, Marshall, Daniel Mort, Erik Schleicher and assistant coach Stu Winn.