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April 5, 2019
State University of New York Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson today announced a first-of-its kind partnership between SUNY Downstate Medical Center and SUNY Old Westbury that will offer eligible students the opportunity to pursue graduate and accelerated degrees in preparation for careers as…
April 5, 2019
Dr. Carol Quirke, a professor in the American Studies Department at SUNY Old Westbury, recently authored her second book, “Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America: Reinventing Self and Nation.” Published by Routledge, the biography highlights the life of one of the…
April 3, 2019
Dr. Jacqueline Emery, an assistant professor in the English Department at SUNY Old Westbury, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend award to undertake research in preparation for her new book on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the American feminist author and…
April 2, 2019
SUNY Old Westbury and its School of Business welcomed the opportunity recently to host the 7th annual Nassau County Comptroller’s Entrepreneurial Challenge. The event featured more than a dozen student-led teams from public schools across Nassau County creating a fictional organization’s…
April 1, 2019
The College Council of the State University of New York at Old Westbury will hold its fourth meeting of the new academic year on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be held in Student Union MPR C and is open to the public. The meeting will include an update on recent College…
March 29, 2019
Photos, evidence, documentation, and a front page New York Times report. That is what it took Susan Meiselas and Mercedes Doretti to tell the story to the world of one of the darkest moments in the history of Central America. They recounted their experience at SUNY Old Westbury on March 25, 2019…
February 19, 2019
Dr. Lorenz S. Neuwirth of the Psychology Department and the SUNY Neuroscience Research Institute at SUNY Old Westbury was recently named the 2018 Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience "Carol Ann Paul Educator of the Year." The Faculty for Neuroscience (FUN) organization's award is named for the…
February 15, 2019
The State University of New York College at Old Westbury was recently named as one of the “Top 50 Colleges for Diversity” nationwide by Study.com. The ranking was awarded based on factors including ethnic makeup of the student and faculty populations, graduation rates among ethnically diverse…