Month: June 2015

The following students received degrees at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s 41st annual spring commencement May 9 in the Wildcat Field House on the SUNY Poly campus in Marcy.

WRVO Public Media, a multistation public radio network based at SUNY Oswego, has received a $40,560 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Titled Upstate Insight, the grant is helping to fund the coordination and sharing of regional news and public affairs coverage among stations serving Upstate New York.

The following Clarkson University students received awards at the annual University Recognition Day ceremony in April.

Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations during field day to showcase the science and skill of amateur radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

Danny Ziemann, the double bass instructor in SUNY Oswego’s music department, won second prize in the jazz division of the International Society of Bassists double bass performance competition, held in June in conjunction with the bassists’ biennial convention at Colorado State University.

Each class was allotted twenty-five minutes on the bus, where FPS Literacy Specialists and Oswego Bookmobile volunteers Erin Wilder and Christine Haessig, spoke to the students about the bookmobile summer schedule and book suggestions.

SUNY Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley has named Dr. Pamela Michel as dean of the School of Education, effective July 1. Michel has been interim dean of the school since 2011 and headed up SUNY Oswego’s 2014 reaccreditation process with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

Meredith Moshier, of Oswego, graduated as a member of the Class of 2015 at Union College during the college’s 221st Commencement exercises on June 14.