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SUNY Old Westbury’s Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders (RCASD) is offering “Teaching to Successful Outcomes: Supporting Children with Autism in the Home, School & Community,” a free virtual conference providing the latest information on evidence-based topics regarding autism on…

New York Times bestselling author and poet Ross Gay visit SUNY Old Westbury earlier this month for the First Year Experience’s Common Reading event. Gay's book of poems, "An Unabashed Catalog of Gratitude," was the selection read in the Ethics of Engagement course this semester enjoyed by more than…

The entire State University of New York at Old Westbury campus community today mourns the passing of President Emeritus Calvin O. Butts, III, who passed away in the early morning of Friday, October 28, 2022.The longest-serving president in the institution’s history, Dr. Butts joined the College in…

Providing scholarship support for the students of the State University of New York at Old Westbury will be the outcome of a new endowed fund created with an initiating gift of $10,000 by the Upsilon Mu Alumni Foundation to the Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc., the not-for-profit organization…

SUNY Old Westbury has been awarded $1.5 million in state funding to build a childcare center.The funding is part of a $15.6 million funding plan to expand childcare services across New York's state university campuses. Governor Kathy Hochul announced the plan last week."Expanding high-quality,…

Class of 2000 graduate Kendall Rodriguez won his first Emmy® award for his work on the Newsday documentary “On The Shoulders of Giants.”  The documentary, which won in the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion category, was selected by the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and…

Drs. Renu Balyan and Shebuti Rayana from the Mathematics, Computer & Information Systems Department were both awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three-year projects. Dr. Balyan’s grant titled "Privacy Preserving Tutoring System for Health Education of Low…

SUNY Old Westbury has added 29 students into the Old Westbury chapter of Tau Sigma National Honor Society, an academic honor society for high-achieving transfer students, at its Fall 2022 induction this week. With its new members, SUNY Old Westbury's chapter includes 272 students and graduates.…