The SUNY College at Oneonta chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the national scholastic honor society for freshmen, inducted 92 new members on Sunday, May 5th at 1 p.m. in the Sanford Auditorium of the Instructional Resources Center on campus. With over 330 chapters nationwide, Phi Eta Sigma promotes excellence through recognition programs and scholarship competitions.  [...]

Senior Shawn Dacey captained his Mid State Divisional team to win the 25th World Geography Bowl at the Association of American Geographers 2013 Annual National Conference in Los Angeles. Dacey and his team finished the conference with a record of 9-1 beating the Mid Atlantic Division in the final round of questions. Dacey is a [...]

Sallie Han (Anthropology) has been invited to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on American Material Culture, to be held July 2013 at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. She is one of 18 scholars  selected from a national application process to take part in the interdisciplinary seminar.

Two SUNY Oneonta faculty members are among four recipients of the 2013-14 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Internationalization, which encourages the establishment of new and innovative study abroad programs in less commonly traveled destinations and the exploration of underrepresented academic disciplines in study abroad. Robert Compton, Chair of the Department of Africana and Latino Studies, received [...]

Paul H. Lord was honored with the Lake Tear of the Clouds Award Saturday evening by the New York State Federation of Lakes Association.  This award, named for the most elevated lake in the state, is awarded when appropriate to a person who has shown the highest dedication to lakes and watersheds, assisted NYSFOLA in [...]

The “Making a Difference” employee recognition program annually honors employees who have demonstrated excellence in their work at the college. The following employees were honored by President Kleniewski and the College Enhancement Committee at a luncheon at Le Café in the Morris Conference Center. Single Effort Excellence awards were given to those who acted above [...]

The Cooperstown Crier provided page 1 coverage to the volunteer SCUBA diving completed by Kaylee Herzog and Christian “Chris” Trapani while the snow was flying on Sunday , 14 April.  The two SUNY-Oneonta undergraduates were part of teams that deployed no-wake zone buoys in Otsego Lake demarking a 200-foot no-wake zone for boaters.  The no-wake [...]

Congratulations to Laura Obernesser, a Sociology Major and Women’s and Gender Studies Minor, who presented her paper “Motherhood Ideologies among Low Income Women in Rural New York” at a session of the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Boston on March 22, 2013. In her presentation, she discussed the ways in which participants place high value [...]

Congratulations to Mary Nardella and Antoinette Astuto, Psychology Majors and Minors in Women’s and Gender Studies, who were selected to participate in New Leadership New York,  a program of the Women’s Leadership Academy at the Center for Women in Government and Civili Society in Albany. This is a highly competitive program, admitting only 20 applicants [...]

Only the best business students in the world, and the professionals who earned the distinction of “the Best in Business” during their academic careers, can claim membership in Beta Gamma Sigma. The SUNY Oneonta Chapter congratulates the 13 students who have earned invitations in fall 2012 and spring 2013 semesters. They join an expanding worldwide [...]