Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Laker Leaders Rachel Futterman (left), a junior studio art major, and Jacob Small, a sophomore majoring in communication and social interaction, give it their all as they greet students to first-year orientation on July 27. Futterman is in the Spotlight for this issue of Campus Update. The Office of Admissions lists about 1,450 incoming members of the class of 2020 and about 700 students transferring from other colleges.

College President Deborah F. Stanley speaks July 14 with Laker Leaders at a breakfast in their honor at Shady Shore. Laker Leaders work with first-year and transfer students during 10 orientation sessions in the summer to ease the transition to life at Oswego.

Artist Cathy Perry (right) and her husband, Mike, install "The Tall Thin Woman" in the college's sculpture garden between Marano Campus Center and Penfield Library. Part of the art department's second two-year Oswego Sculpture Initiative, the cast aluminum piece represents a farm woman standing in a flower garden. The artist, who explores themes of families entwined and interwoven for survival, noted: "The braid of her hair and the lines of her skirt flow back to show the blowing Kentucky wind. The figure holds a flower freshly cut from her garden."

Oleksandra Narytnyk (right), a senior accounting and psychology-philosophy major, leads a tour July 15 past Penfield Library on the way to Hart Hall, the college's global living and learning residence hall, during the college's summer open house for prospective students. This event is designed for students who are just starting their college search.

Senior physics major Nicholas Noviasky (pictured), mentored by physics faculty member Ildar Sabirianov, works on a nanofabrication research project during an internship this summer in a condensed-matter laboratory at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Fellow senior physics major Julia D'Rozario and physics faculty member Carolina Ilie assisted colleagues at University of Nebraska-Lincoln on research related to flexible, bendable solar cell arrays for temporary renewable energy generation. For more on this and other faculty, staff and student news, see the People in Action column. (Photo submitted by Carolina Ilie)

Senior music major Anna Tofolo traveled to Los Angeles this summer where she completed a 12-week internship at The Mix Room. She is pictured in front of the 64-input Solid State Logic SL9000 J in The Mix Room's Studio B. This internship was "one of the most rewarding educational experiences of my college career," Tofolo said, adding that she was immediately put to work performing audio engineering duties for multiple signed acts. (Photo submitted by Daniel Wood)

Children explore how decaying trees turn into soil on a July 11 excursion during Rice Creek Field Station's Exploring Nature summer program. A Rice Creek staple since 1983, the education program for children ages 5 to 13 encourages young people's curiosity and concern about their world. (Photo submitted by Diann Jackson)

The college and CSEA 82 honored five employees for 35 years of service June 23 at the 27th annual Employee Recognition Luncheon. From left are Karen Haresign, Todd Le Bouef, Angela Galvin and Sally Vanburen. Not pictured: Janice Coniski. (Submitted photo by Ray Grela)

The college and CSEA 82 honored seven employees for 30 years of service (from left) Lorraine Greene, Chris Taylor, Mark Ladd and Lori Reitmeier. Not pictured: Deborah Diment, Daniel Hoefer and Robert Weber. (Submitted photo by Ray Grela)

The college and CSEA 82 honored six employees for 25 years of service (from left) Sharon Duval and Jeffrey Ouderkirk. Not pictured: Judy Castiglia, Janet Horton, Roxann Paro and Robert Stacy. The college and CSEA 82 also honored four employees for 20 years of service. Not pictured: Russell Cowles, Mark Dixon, John-Jay Grass and Mark Melfi.

he college and CSEA 82 honored 15 employees for 15 years of service: (from left in back row) Deborah Buske, Teri Davis and Brenda Whitney; (from left in front row) Mary Jackson, Elizabeth Messana, Elise Williams and Diana McLaughlin. Not pictured: Michael Battelle, Todd Conner, Christine Doyle, Donna Monette, Lysa Norris, Sandra Ramos, Martin Vera and Joseph Wheeler. (Submitted photo by Ray Grela)

The college and CSEA honored 17 employees for 10 years of service: (from left in back row) Pat Meleski, Jose Ramos, Terri White and Darlene Tynan; (from left in front row) Linda Potter and Rhonda Taylor. Not pictured: Jolanda Alvarado, Mark Chwalek, Debra Cooper, Jason Hrncirik, Duane Hyde, Penny Maynes, David Miller, George O’Neil Jr., Timothy Sherman, Lesley Wallace and David Wolbert. (Submitted photo by Ray Grela)

Tyler Hall's newly renovated main lobby — which now has space to flex as a common area with multiple uses and configurations — flows to the Waterman Theatre lobby, thanks to the curving glass-paneled theatre façade (far left), spindled rail (center) and rebuilt stairway with new lighting. The most public parts of the building reopen this semester following the first phase of an ongoing rejuventation of the college's 48-year-old fine and performing arts building.