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April 4, 2017
Assistant Professor of American Studies at SUNY Old Westbury Llana Barber’s new book “Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000” explores the history of the first Latino-majority city in New England, and the transformation and challenges it faced in the late…
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017... The School of Education at SUNY Old Westbury has been awarded a five-year Teacher Opportunity Corps II grant from the New York State Department of Education for $324,934 for each of the five years. The five-year total is in excess of $1.6 million. The award, the fourth largest…
March 28, 2017
The United Nations recently approved SUNY Old Westbury as an official member of the United Nations Academic Impact, a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations to further the principles of human rights, diversity, sustainability, peace and social justice…
March 17, 2017
Brain-Game Week Competition Technology Prize Winners:Tower or Hanoi Challenge 3 discs: Mayra Bonilla (18 moves and 64 seconds)Mirror Box Challenge: Whitney Decime (1 minute and 12 seconds and 0 errors)Brain-Game Week Competition Technology Prize Winners:Tower of Hanoi Challenge 7 discs: Michelle…
March 17, 2017
A delegation of SUNY leaders, including SUNY Old Westbury's Vice President for Enrollment Services Mary Marquez Bell and Professors Zenaida Madurka and Fernando Nieto, recently visited Cuba to sign a historic agreement with the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) that opens the door for…
March 16, 2017
Marcia Ann Gillespie, visiting professor in the American Studies Department, recently received the Black Enterprise Women of Power "Barbara Graves Legacy Award" at the magazine's 12th annual summit in Phoenix, Arizona. Gillespie, who has taught Writing for Media and a special course in African…
February 27, 2017
More than 40 students from SUNY Old Westbury gathered to compile comfort kits for victims and survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence as part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, a call to service initiative by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The event on Friday,…
February 21, 2017
A discussion of how young people in the metropolitan New York area feel about race relations and the solutions they believe can be applied in times of racial conflict was the focus as students from SUNY Old Westbury attended and participated in "Race Relations 101: What Young People Think About…
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