Around the SUNY Oswego campus

The Great Pumpkin Run/Walk on Oct. 11 raised more than $700 for Blessings in a Backpack, which regularly provides food to hundreds of children in need in Oswego Country. Caroline Pace and Jillian Uretsky (center) start off the run with smiles along with fellow runners in a route around campus. (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Biboti Ouikahilo Wacheva leads an interactive African dance and drumming on Oct. 12, as part of the Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference. Mya Brown (in blue), faculty resident mentor in Hart Hall and a theatre faculty member, hosted the event in which student participants from Hart Hall “International Studies Global Awareness Course” participated. (Photo by Nsikak Ekong, NC Sharp Photography)

Turkish students Emir Tortopoglu and Fem Koymen stand in Hart Hall lobby next to artwork connecting to the Institute for Global Engagement’s Year of Turkey programs and the Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference. (Photo by Maria Kopnitsky)

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, leader of the Omar Faruk Tekbilek Trio, presented an educational talk about Turkish music and instruments in a lecture and demonstration on Oct. 11 as part of the Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference.

Award-winning journalist and author Stephen Kinzer (center) was the Oct. 12 keynote speaker for this year's Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference. The author of "Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds" and a former Istanbul correspondent for the New York Times, Kinzer attracted an audience that included students, faculty such as Fehmi Damkaci (left), chair of the chemistry department, and Nobel prize winner Stanley Whittingham (right). Whittingham, a Distinguished Research Professor at Binghamton University and holder of the patent for the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, was announced last week as part of the team winning this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He is the husband of modern languages and literatures faculty member Georgina Whittingham.

The Office of International Education and Programs (OIEP) hosted a Sept. 27 welcoming reception for returning study abroad students and new international students. Here graduate student Chukwuemeka Okere (front left) speaks with OEIP staff member Hanna Lee of International Education and Programs. Behind them, study abroad mentors (at left) Diandre Coote-Anderson and Luke Myers speak with staff members Jessica Hernandez and Amy Wallace.

The annual Green and Gold campus photo on Oct. 4 (also the 196th birthday of college founder Edward Austin Sheldon) was among the events kicking off two days of Homecoming activities. Students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered for this year’s snapshot.

The 5th annual School of Business Business Symposium took place on Oct. 10, and culminated with a panel discussion on "The Role of Business in Responsible Automation." Panelists were, from left, Dr. Meera Sampath, associate vice chancellor for research at the State University of New York;  Dr. Yunbo "Will" Zhang, assistant professor in the department of industrial and systems engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology; and Dr. Ulises A. Mejias, associate professor of communication studies at SUNY Oswego.

Dr. Peter Bocko -- a 1975 SUNY Oswego graduate, longtime chief technology officer for Corning Class and now teaching at Cornell University -- presented "Further Adventures in the Physical Chemistry of Glass: Modern Insights into Old Mysteries" on Oct. 11.

Faculty members Serenity Sutherland of communication studies and Paul Leary of music took 30 undergraduate and graduate students to the “Women in Games” conference featuring women game designers at The Strong Museum in Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. Students spoke with women game designers, sat in on some demos of upcoming games and discussed what inspired them to create. (Photo courtesy of Serenity Sutherland)

A 2006 Oswego graduate and deputy editor of news and ideas for Vice, Michelle Garcia spoke to students in Catherine Loper's “Advanced Newswriting” class on Oct. 3 as part of the Oswego Alumni Association's Alumni-In-Residence program. Garcia, a School of Communication, Media and the Arts Advisory Board member, also served as the keynote speaker for the Oct. 5 Communication Studies Alumni Reunion and Dinner held in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend.

Young lovers from feuding families Luisa (Abby Hines) and Matt (Nick Sweet) find love through the wall portrayed by Chaeyoon Kim (among other complications) in a preview image for the upcoming SUNY Oswego theatre production of “The Fantasticks.” The popular and enduring musical that opens this year’s theatre season will run Oct. 17, 18, 24, 25 and 26 in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre

Students in Sandra Bargainnier’s Honors 301 “In Search of Meaning: What It Means to be a Refugee in Central New York” course have had out-of-classroom experiences to supplement their studies. On Oct. 12, “our class had lunch at Habiba's Ethiopian Kitchen in Syracuse and we were grateful to have Habiba share her story with the class about fleeing Ethiopia, living in a Kenyan refugee camp and resettling in America at age 14 with her aunt. After the great meal, we visited ArtRage in Syracuse to see the photo exhibit ‘Recreating Home: Photography of the Refugee Experience,’” Bargainnier said. The class has visited the Safe Haven Refugee Holocaust Museum in Oswego, and has hosted guest speakers from Bhutan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The course also requires students to perform 15 to 20 hours of service learning at an agency that serves refugees in Syracuse. (Photo submitted by Sandra Bargainnier)

Author Norma Elia Cantu spoke at the Oct. 7 edition of the Living Writers Series. The Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor in Humanities at Trinity University, Cantu’s more recent work includes the 20th anniversary edition of her book “Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera,” and two publications scheduled this year: her novel “Cabañuelas” and poetry collection “Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life and Labor.”

Five performances of Squonk Opera's "Pneumatica" during Homecoming provided entertainment for all ages through an imaginative combination of airflow, music and art.

Author Gabby Rivera opened the college’s I Am Oz speaker series for this year with a talk, question-and-answer session and book signing on Oct. 2. Rivera is the author of "America," the debut solo series for America Chavez, Marvel's first queer Latina superhero, and a new book, “Juliet Takes A Breath.” (Photo by Megan Briggs)

Nathan DeSantis, an adolescence education and Spanish major, leads a tour outside Penfield Library during the college's first Admissions Open House of the season on Oct. 14. Additional open houses will take place on Oct. 19 and Nov. 11, as members of the class of 2024 and new transfers, plus their families, visit campus.

The college welcomed the latest class of the Oswego Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 5 during Homecoming Weekend. From left are inductees who were on hand: 1990 graduate Tom McFall, men's hockey; 1984 graduate Mark Howard; 2003 graduate Erin Hanlon, women's volleyball; and 1976 graduate Gary Bartemus, men's swimming and diving. Also honored, but not present for the photo, was 2004 (undergraduate) and 2007 (master’s) graduate Susan McWilliams, women's cross country and track and field.

The college’s Residence Hall Association hosted their annual Leadership Rocks! Conference Oct. 6 in Marano Campus Center. Newly elected members of hall council received leadership training on topics ranging from programming to student advocacy. Executive board members are pictured from left: Benn Delisle, Cindy Cavelino, Justin Techmanski, Victoria Missial and Noelani Sajous. (Photo submitted by Leigh Viscomi)