Archive for April, 2012
The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges has recognized SUNY Oneonta for its commitment to sustainability. SUNY Oneonta has been selected for inclusion in the Guide every year since its inception in 2010.
The 2011-2012 Red Dragon Reading Series at SUNY Oneonta will close on Monday, April 30, with a reading by poet, writer and literary scholar Jeanetta Calhoun Mish. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center on campus. A reception [...]
The SingerSongwriter Club at SUNY Oneonta will present the Mostly Marley Festival on Saturday, April 28, from 2 to 6 p.m. in Room M-201 of the Fine Arts building on the college’s campus. The concert will celebrate the life, music, activism and legacy of Bob Marley.
Sixteen SUNY Oneonta students participated in the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City from April 1- 5. This year’s delegation, representing Ecuador, received an Honorable Mention award from conference organizers. This is a high honor, placing the Oneonta delegation in the top 10 percent of participants at a conference with over 2,000 [...]
Triathlete Ben Davis will share the story of his transformation—from being unfit and unhappy to becoming a distance runner and motivational speaker—at SUNY Oneonta on Thursday, April 26. His presentation, titled “Ben Does Life,” recounts his challenges with weight and depression, his determination to change, and his dedication to running as tool for physical and [...]
The SUNY Oneonta Department of Theatre and the Mask and Hammer Theatre Club will present “The Drowsy Chaperone” by Bob Martin and Don Keller, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, from April 25-28. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and at 8 p.m. and at 2 p.m. [...]
Dr. Orlando Legname, associate professor of music at SUNY Oneonta, has been awarded the college’s 2012 Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence. He will deliver the 18th annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture, titled “Art as a Result of the Western Dialectic: An Approach to Philosophy of Music,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in [...]
The Red Dragon Theatre in the Hunt Union at SUNY Oneonta will be home to Cinema Festival 2012 from Monday, April 23, to Friday, April 27. Most of the 11 films to be screened are documentaries. They deal with topics ranging from the global environmental impact of urbanization to the 1962 defection of a U.S. [...]
The seventh annual OH-Fest will feature more than a week of events held on the campuses of SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College, and in the city of Oneonta. Two concerts will anchor this year’s festival, which was organized by a planning committee of students from both colleges. A performance/dance party with Girl Talk and special [...]
Six teams of students from SUNY Oneonta and local high schools will test their design and engineering skills in a “Canstruction” competition on April 21-22 at the Southside Mall as they build structures out of canned food that will ultimately be donated to the Hunger Coalition of Otsego County. Teams from Milford BOCES and Grand [...]

