Month: September 2016

Thanks to a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant, three SUNY Oswego undergraduates spent three weeks at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, this summer unearthing such fossils as the tiny jaws of ancient animals — and the fossilized bones of a rare dinosaur — as they tried on paleontology careers.

While we read about the refugee crisis in the media today, many don’t realize that the issue of refugees was very much alive in Oswego in the mid-1940s with nearly 1,000 European refugees living at Fort Ontario.

Fitzhugh Park Elementary School in Oswego kicked off the school year with a program featuring Joe Trionfero and his well-known character education program “Show of Love!” Trionfero, whose energy and enthusiasm throughout the program was infectious, engaged students in their school-wide character education initiative now under way.

Oswego First UMC will celebrate a revival weekend October 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. and October 9 at 10 a.m. with special speaker Rev. Dr. Diana DeWitt, author of “The Authority of Love: Reclaiming Spiritual Authority in the Church Today.”

Oswego County Opportunities Cancer Services Program recently received some much needed support when representatives of the Ladies Golf League at Cold Springs Golf Course in Mannsville presented the program with the proceeds of its seventh annual breast cancer awareness golf tournament.

Vadoud Niri of the SUNY Oswego chemistry faculty and his undergraduate assistants worked steadily — and quietly — for three years researching five common houseplants as agents for removing potentially hazardous chemicals such as acetone from the air. Then the American Chemical Society took note of their work, and it is quiet no longer.

Several area students completed their graduate studies at SUNY Oswego in August 2016 and were recognized with master’s degrees or graduate certificates.