Awards + honors

Excellence inside and beyond the classroom earned Harrison Yang of Oswego’s curriculum and instruction department the rank of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, a top honor in the statewide system.

Koushank Harinder Singh Ahuja of Faridabad, India, and Olivia Colon of East Durham have been selected as the Oswego Alumni Association’s 2021 Outstanding Senior Award recipients.

Three SUNY Oswego students swept the top awards in anelevator-pitch contest for Central New York college students.

The magazine that made the Fortune 500 rankings famous published its first-ever list for online MBA programs, where SUNY Oswego ranks first in New York state among public institutions.

A recent honor to SUNY Oswego recognizes the college's efforts to support its non-traditional students.

SUNY Oswego senior biology major Christian DiBiase recently earned a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest such recognition in the statewide system, for outstanding work spanning classrooms, research labs and fieldwork to help others.

Two SUNY Oswego students will advance to a statewide business plan competition after recent success in the CNY Competes regional event.

Ongoing work in community building earned Chena Tucker, director of SUNY Oswego’s Office of Business and Community Relations, the Nancy L. Premo – Woman of Distinction Award recently from the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce.

Dedication to celebrating Black history and culture and ongoing commitment to improving the lives of others have earned SUNY Oswego junior accounting major Samisha Elysee the Newman Civic Fellowship, a national honor.

A video project last spring by SUNY Oswego communication studies faculty member Michael Riecke and 2020 graduate Jack Geddes took an unexpected detour but still found the road to a national award.