Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Freshman Trae Metzger moves into Oneida Hall on Jan. 24 with help from his mother. Starting on Sunday, hundreds of students began moving back onto campus, receiving a COVID-19 test in Lee Hall as part of the process.

Cabot Wiggett, a freshman, moves into Johnson Hall with help from his dad Jan. 24, the first day of the week-long period scheduled for students to settle into their campus rooms.

Elizabeth Maldonado enters the Johnson Hall main entrance on Jan. 24 with some family members helping her with her belongings.

Ray Paull, a sophomore and ardent Buffalo Bills fan, moves into Riggs Hall with help from his dad on Jan. 24.

Students move into Waterbury Hall along the lake shore over the weekend.

Students move into Seneca Hall on Jan. 24.

Flags placed along campus roads help navigate students arriving by car to the COVID testing area at Lee Hall.

Students head into the Lee Hall COVID-19 testing area. Updated SUNY guidelines require any student, faculty or staff member with on-campus activities to test on a weekly basis.

Jake Pritchard, a senior and Cayuga Hall resident assistant, makes himself available Jan. 24 in the Marano Campus Center entrance near the bus stop to guide students arriving by bus.

Despite having to rewrite almost everything in 2020, the college’s State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) campaign relied on campus generosity and innovative ideas to exceed its annual goal and provide support to many organizations and individuals in the community. The SEFA Steering Committee chose to stay the course with its annual $30,000 goal and an extraordinary team effort topped it in raising $31,122 through individual pledges and several successful fundraisers. The adapted events included the popular Teddy Bear Toss which, with virtual efforts and a touchless drive-thru -- staffed here by Laker women's hockey players Aislinn McAleer and Kamryn Barnes -- scored $2,450 in monetary donations and more than 200 toys for local children.

On Jan. 19, SUNY Oswego joined the nation in lighting up landmarks in amber hues to remember the more than 400,000 lives lost due to COVID-19.

Last week's snowfall blankets the Lee Hall athletic field in this view toward Johnson and Riggs halls along the shore of Lake Ontario.

Recent cold weather helped form the seasonal freezing along the Lake Ontario shoreline. Caution is urged not to venture onto this floating ice familiar to the area.