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May 7, 2024
Dr. Dorothy A. Escribano, SUNY Old Westbury interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, has announced the promotion of Dr. Antonia DiGregorio to become dean of the library.Dr. DiGregorio has been a member of the SUNY Old Westbury community and its library team since 2008 and has…
May 7, 2024
The State University of New York at Old Westbury has been ranked in the Top 35% in the world as a Best Value University for International Students by Study Abroad Aide (SAA), a comprehensive database of universities worldwide. The ranking evaluated 8,060 higher education institutions…
May 2, 2024
Pooja Aiyar, a Finance major from Hicksville, New York, has been awarded the 2024 President’s Medal for Scholarship, the highest student honor bestowed by SUNY Old Westbury. "According to her professors, Ms. Aiyar has an extraordinary ability to maintain focus in the face of difficult…
April 30, 2024
The weather was beautiful for Arbor Day festivities at SUNY Old Westbury where a team of students, faculty and staff worked together to plant 125 trees, donated by Bartlett Tree Experts of Westbury, New York. Joe Colella (left), an ISA certified arborist and a New York State certified…
April 25, 2024
Lab Delegation Visits University to Launch New CollaborationsA delegation from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) visited SUNY Old Westbury recently to kick start work evolving from a new memorandum of understanding between the institutions that seeks to create collaborative and mutually…
April 23, 2024
Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, the noted academic leader who Time magazine once called “America’s Best College President,” will provide the keynote address during the State University of New York at Old Westbury’s 2024 Commencement Ceremony on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum…
April 15, 2024
SUNY Old Westbury seniors Agustin Beas Romero and Colette Vaughan have been selected as 2024 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence recipients, the highest honor bestowed upon students in the SUNY system. The students received the honor at the award ceremony on April…
April 12, 2024
The entire SUNY Old Westbury community mourns the loss of Dr. Gloria Young Sing, associate professor emerita of Politics, Economics and Society and a member of the faculty from 1971 to 1997. Dr. Young Sing died on April 10, 2024 in Trinidad and Tobago.   Below is the message shared with the campus…