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Three members of the academic team at the State University of New York at Old Westbury have been recognized by the State University of New York Board of Trustees with 2020 Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in their respective fields.…
March 2021... Continuing to prove its high-quality education at an affordable tuition, SUNY Old Westbury was ranked at number 32 in College Consensus’ Top 100 Best Value Colleges. The website reviewed rankings from various media outlets including Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and the Wall…
Dr. Jasmine Mitchell, an assistant professor in the American Studies/Media & Communications Department, has released her first book "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media." , the 288-page book was published by the University of Illinois Press.In "Imagining the Mulatta,"…
SUNY Old Westbury seniors Amelia Cariddi and Priscila Ortega were recognized as 2020 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence recipients, the highest honor bestowed upon students in the system. They were among the 213 students statewide, out of more than 415,000 total…
During a traditional academic year, the graduates of fall 2019 and spring 2020 would have gathered on the morning of May 17th to participate in the 54th Commencement Ceremony of SUNY Old Westbury. The 2019-2020 academic year, however, ended far from traditionally.The spread of COVID-19 forced SUNY…
SUNY Old Westbury student Ajón Crump is helping those who are helping others during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating a campaign to provide new sneakers to nurses. Since her campaign started in April, she has raised more than $11,500 for local health professionals.“This idea was largely inspired by…
Dr. Llana Barber of the American Studies Department was recently awarded a Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society (APS) to conduct research for her project “No Refuge from Empire: Haitian Migration, Militarized Exclusion, and the Formation of the Nativist State.” The grant…
Dr. Alison Clark, an adjunct in the School of Education's Exceptional Education and Learning Department, was named the 2020 New York State Elementary Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS) and the National Association of Elementary School…
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