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SUNY supports student, staff researchers

In December, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras announced awards of up to $10,000 to several SUNY campuses, including SUNY Oswego, to fund research on how to better detect COVID-19. In the Spring 2021 semester, Dr. Julia Koeppe and Dr. Kestas Bendinskas…

Retirement of Nicholas Lyons announced

On Feb. 12, President Deborah Stanley sent out an email to students announcing the retirement of Nicholas Lyons, the current vice president for administration and finance. Lyons’ retirement will be effective on April 13, according to the email. In his…

Go Green Club revived by students at SUNY Oswego

Go Green has been an on-and-off club at SUNY Oswego for years. It last made its appearance several years ago in an attempt to continue its mission to spread environmental awareness but was unable to gain enough support to get…

Theatre department plans for 1 spring show

While this academic year has led the theater department at SUNY Oswego to adapt to numerous changes, both faculty and students show optimism for the future. As opposed to its typical three plays for the school year, the department has…

Importance of sleep emphasized in program

Sleep can be hard to come by, especially for college students. To help students, SUNY Oswego held a sleep workshop on March 18, titled “Up All Night,” which was hosted by Julie Yankowsky, a psychiatric nurse practitioner with the Counseling…

National Association of Black Accountants offer advice

In the past year, many students have struggled to adjust to their new digital classrooms. Others have found it difficult to advance their careers after school, with a large amount of internships and other opportunities either being canceled or shifting…

Students, professors face odd circumstances with digital snow days

Wednesday, Feb. 10, was the first day of the Spring 2021 semester that SUNY Oswego had to cancel in-person classes due to hazardous weather conditions. Cancellations due to snow are no strange occurrence to the students at SUNY Oswego, but…

COVID-19 pandemic hits student employees at SUNY Oswego

As students continue to settle into the Spring 2021 semester, places all around campus are looking to help students keep their on-campus jobs.  Last semester, many employment locations around campus needed to shut down in order to meet the pandemic…

Stanley announces Littlepage Dining Hall reopening

As students returned to SUNY Oswego in a staggered format in order to limit the spread of COVID-19, they came back to disappointing news: Littlepage Dining Hall would be closed for the entire semester. A little over a week later,…

SUNY Oswego announces ‘highlights’ of spring 2021 plan

SUNY Oswego announced several points of the “Winter and Spring Forward 2021 Plan” in an email from President Deborah Stanley to the campus on Wednesday afternoon. After SUNY released its overarching guidelines for the spring 2021 semester, SUNY Oswego officials…