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Guest speaker Dr. David Morrow of American University will deliver the 30th anniversary Warren Steinkraus Lecture on Human Ideals, titled "Climate Justice and Carbon Renewal," at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in Marano Campus Center auditorium, Room 132.

Panelists from the communications and business worlds will explore a phenomenon that literally has put the power to build grassroots movements in the palm of one's hand in "Viral Voices: Advocacy in the Digital Age" at SUNY Oswego's 14th annual Dr. Lewis B. O'Donnell Media Summit.

Refinery29 co-founder/global editor-in-chief Christene Barberich, a 1991 Oswego graduate in both English writing arts and in art as well as a speaker at May's Commencement, discussed how what she studied in college played a role in her success, in an interview on ABC News Radio's "No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis."

SUNY Oswego counseling and psychological services professor Jodi Mullen has instilled what she has learned from research, working as a play therapist, and from children themselves in a new book, “Raising Freakishly Well Behaved Kids: 20 Principles for Becoming the Parent Your Child Needs.”

SUNY Oswego public justice faculty member Jaclyn Schildkraut, a national expert on mass shootings, recently published a reference book that she hopes will prove helpful for anybody researching the topic.

As president of the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs, 1966 SUNY Oswego graduate John Sroka understands firsthand how important volunteer firefighters are to the safety of New York state. Of the state’s 1,665 registered fire departments, more than 90 percent rely solely on volunteers, so he turned to his alma mater to address falling numbers of recruits.

Convening in a monastery on the slopes of the Knockmealdown mountains in Ireland, scholars from across the globe -- including sociology chair Tim Delaney of SUNY Oswego and philosophy chair Tim Madigan of St. John Fisher -- met for a unique conference on the subjects of friendship and happiness.

An April 30 SUNY Oswego production of “Not Someone Like Me” followed by a panel presentation will bring forward the stories of survivors of sexual violence to try to make a positive change.

Abraham Lincoln: politician, philosopher or economist? Was John Stuart Mill just a philosopher? Was Adam Smith just an economist? A new SUNY Oswego degree program to launch this fall underscores the answer: Academic disciplines, like careers, often intersect, regardless of boundaries and labels.

SUNY Oswego will partner with WCNY to host a preview of the PBS documentary segment “The Whistle Blower,” followed by an ethics-based faculty panel discussion on Wednesday, April 11.