SUNY Oneonta senior Alex Lyakhov has been selected to receive the SUNY Emerging Leader Award in recognition of his work to improve sustainability on campus. Lyakhov was one of 17 students chosen from throughout SUNY’s 64 campuses to receive the award, which was given for the first time this year. The meteorology major from Brooklyn [...]

Attention, aspiring wizards: About.com has conjured up a list of the “Top Colleges for Harry Potter Fans” and we’re on it! SUNY Oneonta comes in at #8 on the list, which is featured in the College Admissions section of the website. The college’s Harry Potter Club was singled out because of its focus on volunteerism. [...]

The NCAA Division III Management Council has appointed SUNY Oneonta Director of Athletics Tracey Ranieri to a four-year term on the council. The appointment was approved at the Oct. 15-16 meeting of the council and takes effect beginning at the conclusion of the 2013 NCAA convention. Ranieri is in her fifth year as the director [...]

SUNY Oneonta will host a free program on winter storm preparedness tonight. The Binghamton Office of the National Weather Service (NWS), in conjunction with local emergency management officials, will present an overview of the dangers of winter weather, and information that citizens can use to help local first responders better protect their communities. The event [...]

Dr. Tracy Betsinger, assistant professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta, has been awarded the 2012 Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence. Betsinger will deliver the 18th annual Richard Siegfried Lecture, “Vampire and Myth: Views of the Undead from Historical and Bioarchaeological Perspectives,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Craven Lounge of [...]

The SUNY Oneonta women’s soccer team was honored recently by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for its academic accomplishments as a team. The Red Dragons received a 2011-12 Team Academic Award for the first time since the NSCAA began recognizing teams for their academic accomplishments in 1996. Oneonta was one of 497 women’s [...]

SUNY Oneonta will hold its 2012 December Candidate Recognition Ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 11 a.m. in the Dewar Arena of the Alumni Field House. Hosted by college President Nancy Kleniewski, the event will recognize students who are expected to complete their requirements for graduation this semester. A total of 320 candidates for bachelor’s [...]

The National Field Hockey Coaches Association has selected SUNY Oneonta senior Ashley Johnson of Saratoga Springs and junior Ashley Morgan of Putnam Valley as 2012 All-Americans. Johnson and Morgan are the seventh and eighth field hockey players in the program’s history to earn national honors. Morgan is the third, two-time All-American for field hockey and [...]

Cultural anthropologist Don Hill will be the second speaker in the fifth annual Ralph R. Watkins Africana Studies Lecture Series at SUNY Oneonta. Hill will present “Jim Crow Era Field Recordings 1958—1961” at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Alden Room of the college’s Milne Library. Admission is free, and members of the community [...]

SUNY Oneonta has postponed construction of a townhouse facility that originally had been scheduled to open to students in 2014. The complex, projected to house nearly 200 students, was planned in response to the college’s 2010 New Student Housing Program Study, which concluded that the campus could support approximately 600 additional beds. SUNY Oneonta President [...]