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The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Our Land," a new exhibition comprising photography and video by artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diaspora. Curated by Anthony Hamboussi, photographer and adjunct professor in the Visual Arts…
The entire SUNY Old Westbury community today mourns the loss of former President Harris Wofford, a civil rights icon and civilian service advocate who served as president of the College from 1966 until 1970.  Mr. Wofford died on January 22, 2019. Below is the message shared with the campus…
The SUNY Old Westbury School of Education and its New York state-certified educators are offering a free Literacy Learning Clinic to the community beginning January 31, 2019. The Clinic will provide reading and writing strategy instruction sessions once weekly for 45 minutes on the College’s campus…
The Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc. at its December 2018 meeting elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees.  The new members are: Nora Bassett, a local management training consultant. Gary Casimir, a 1988 SUNY Old Westbury graduate and partner in the law firm of…
Biological Sciences student Sarah Sadik recently returned from the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis, Indiana with an award for her poster presentation on prostate cancer. Mentored in the laboratory of Dr. Manya Mascareno, associate professor of Biological…
Dr. Christopher Z. Hobson, professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury, recently authored “James Baldwin and the Heavenly City: Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt,” which provides new interpretations on the…
The State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Roosevelt Union Free School District have announced a new Scholars Academy, a cohort-based learning community designed to promote a college-going culture across the school district. The partnership is being funded by a five-year, $700,570…
The entire SUNY Old Westbury community today mourns the loss of President Emeritus John D. Maguire, the civil rights pioneer and long-time educator who served as president of the College from 1970 until 1981.  Dr. Maguire died on October 26, 2018 in California.  Below is the message…