Outstanding continuing service for students throughout the SUNY system recently earned SUNY Oswego Student Association President Oghenetega (Tega) Adjoh the ACT (Association of Council Members and College Trustees) Scholarship for Excellence and Student Initiative Award. Each campus nominates one exceptional student, and ACT selects only six recipients across all 64 SUNY campuses. Oswego’s University Council nominated Adjoh for her sustained record of leadership, advocacy and service. Read full story.
In early November, Oswego students Adebola Adeyanju, Cameron Bashaw, Katherine Gilligan, Shristi Gurung and Devon Seale presented posters at the American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Discussion 2025 hosted at Worcester State University. They traveled with Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry Kestas Bendinskas, with whom they conducted their research. (Top from left are Seale, Gurung, Adeyanju, Gilligan and Bendinskas; second photo features Bashaw and IBendinskas.)
Lynn Braun, director of Counseling Services and president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, co-authored the organization’s “Essential: The Roles and Impacts of the University and College Counseling Center.” The paper’s purpose was to illuminate what counseling centers can and should be to help partners understand the essential roles of counselors in the campus community.
Strategic communication student Owen Dlugos earned First Runner-Up for her master's thesis in the Iowa Communication Association's Westphal Outstanding Student Paper Competition, with the encouragement of her thesis advisor, Andrea Vickery. The competition reviews both undergraduate and graduate student-written research papers that cover any aspect of communication and employ any method of analysis. Dlugos presented her paper and its findings on a panel at the 2025 Iowa Communication Association Conference in Cedar Falls with other Westphal participants. Dlugos' thesis used Performative Face Theory to investigate what face-threatening acts LGBTQ+ workers have experienced, how workers respond to threatening acts and what organizational level rhetoric and discourse in relation to LGBTQ+ identity have impacted participants in the workplace. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and the qualitative data was analyzed using iterative analysis. Her work contributes to knowledge on the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ employees at the micro and meso levels of communication analysis.
Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy Shashi Kanbur co-authored a paper, “The light curve model fitting of LMC Cepheids: MESA-RSP versus Stellingwerf's code predictions,” published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Lindsay McCluskey, associate professor of public relations and advisement coordinator for the Department of Communication Studies, was featured as an expert in The Palladium Times/Oswego County News Now in an article about politics and the federal government shutdown.
Damian Schofield, director of the human-computer interaction master’s program, virtually presented “Decision Making and Risk: Based on Visual Evidence” at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit held in London in late September. This presentation to insurance representatives explored how humans make bad decisions, and in particular, how visuals and graphics can affect decision-making.
Melissa Semione of the Division of Extended Learning, the chapter councilor for the Alpha Sigma Lambda national adult student honor society, received a spotlight article in the organization's national newsletter.
A proven track record of creating collaborative courses spanning continents earned health promotion and wellness faculty member Minjung Seo the role of SUNY COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) Ambassador. Through COIL, she promotes global engagement and cross-cultural collaboration in health promotion. Her teaching and research emphasize practical strategies for fostering wellness across diverse populations. Read full story.
Establishing forward-thinking coursework and research led to SUNY Oswego’s Mohammad Tajvarpour being named one of 20 members in the inaugural class of SUNY’s AI for the Public Good Fellows. The AI for the Public Good Fellows will be a resource to SUNY’s colleges and universities by providing targeted support for faculty and staff working to update courses and learning activities to incorporate AI literacy, including the effective and ethical use of AI and teaching students to critically evaluate AI-generated content. Read full story.
Christina Seado Vasquez, coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s CSTEP (Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program), was recognized for her program work on campus and at the state level during the annual Association for Program Administrators of CSTEP and STEP (APACS) conference this summer. Vasquez serves as co-chair of the Social Media Subcommittee for APACS and is a sitting member of the APACS Executive Committee.
English and creative writing faculty member Erik Wade published two encyclopedia entries -– "Buttocks" and "Historical Perspectives -- Sexual Desire" -- with human development professor Rebecca Burch in the Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Wade additionally published a review essay entitled "Non Homo: Queerness and Medieval Latin Literature" in the Journal of Medieval Latin and an article titled "When the Leopard’s Away, the Mice Will Pee: The Medieval Transmission of an Animal Narrative from Timotheus of Gaza to Persian, Arabic and English Texts" in Notes and Queries.
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