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SUNY Old Westbury welcomed 60 companies and organizations to campus for its Spring 2026 Career Fair, providing meaningful networking and career exploration opportunities for nearly 400 student participants across a wide range of academic majors.The largest career fair in campus history, the Spring…
The SUNY Old Westbury School of Business welcomed 20 students and three alumni into its chapter of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society on April 8, 2026.  The campus’ Beta Gamma Sigma chapter was chartered in 2024 following the School’s accreditation by AACSB International…
SUNY Old Westbury President Timothy E. Sams will present the University’s first-ever Presidential Medal later this month to Molefi Kete Asante, who today is a professor in the Department of Africology at Temple University, the president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies,…
From breaking barriers to building legacies, a panel of accomplished women took center stage at SUNY Old Westbury as the campus marked the finale of Women’s History Month with a session complete with insight, inspiration, and trailblazing stories.The panel, titled “Give Her, Her Flowers,” welcomed…
With the SUNY Old Westbury Panther men’s baseball team’s season-opening victories over Lehman College (CUNY), head coach Rod Stephan officially became the winningest coach in the history of the campus’ baseball program, reaching 295 career wins in his 16th season at the helm.Stephan, who was…
SUNY Old Westbury and the Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc. will mark a major milestone with the 2026 Own Your Future Gala, an elegant evening celebrating the University’s 60th anniversary and the fifth anniversary of President Timothy E. Sams’ leadership at the campus.The gala will take place…
Bradley Young ‘26, a senior from South Plainfield, New Jersey majoring in Criminology at SUNY Old Westbury, was selected to be one of 40 Division III student athletes from around the country in attendance at the Division III Student Immersion Program as part of the annual NCAA Convention.…
Alicia Garner ‘26 is one of 49 student recipients across the SUNY system to be awarded a 2026 Norman R. McConney, Jr. Award for Equal Opportunity Program Student Excellence in Albany.The award, established in 2019, is named for Norman R. McConney Jr. (1946–2016), a former assistant dean for special…