Society

Rebecca Mushtare, associate dean of graduate studies at SUNY Oswego, was recently named to the SUNY Empowering Students With Disabilities Task Force.

The college’s Global Awareness Conference returns to an in-person format Nov. 1 to 5 with a theme of Indigenous food sovereignty.

Quayshawn Spencer, author and Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania will deliver virtually this year's Warren Steinkraus Lecture on Human Ideals at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4.

A series of events this fall are helping sophomores with their transition into campus life after not having a traditional freshmen year.

The college will celebrate Earth Month with a week of daily campus cleanups, a seed sharing event, two-day thrift sale, an Arbor Day webinar and more.

It’s not common for an undergraduate student to work on a literary magazine that includes submissions from a former U.S. poet laureate and other award winners, but that, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier said, is the beauty of the new offering called Subnivean.

In a semester that includes a pivotal election on national, state and regional levels, the college’s nonpartisan Vote Oswego civic engagement effort itself had to pivot -- instead of information tables and face-to-face events, the student team has relied on tools like Zoom, Slack and Google Drive to power its activities.

The college's Sustainability Office will sponsor a variety of activities for Sustainability Week, Oct. 19 to 23.

“Darkened Enlightenment,” the latest book by sociology professor Tim Delaney, finds the prolific author seeing society at a crossroads, with a choice between rational thought and anti-intellectualism.

The Vote Oswego project returns this fall to inform and motivate the Oswego community to register and participate in elections.