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April 20, 2018
The future of the technology industry, the opportunities and challenges posed by China, and the power of critical thinking were among the topics covered when Kenneth C. Chenault visited Long Island recently to take part in the SUNY Old Westbury Executive Leadership Forum.Before an audience of 300…
April 11, 2018
From the interaction of atoms to changes in immigrant behaviors to religious and social movements in 20th century Israel and Egypt, research and discovery from the world-renowned to the campus-based will be the focus of the day when the State University of New York at Old Westbury holds “2018…
March 28, 2018
SUNY Old Westbury's Science and Technology Program (STEP) student researchers returned from the 20th Annual STEP Statewide Student Conference with good news, knowledge, and accolades. Over 600 STEP students and staff from approximately forty-five colleges and universities from New York State…
March 13, 2018
State University of New York at Old Westbury President Calvin O. Butts, III, and members of the faculty of the College’s American Studies/Media & Communications Department welcomed the Speaker of the New York State Assembly Carl Heastie to campus recently to tour the College’s television and…
February 26, 2018
Before an audience of higher education officials from New York and Cuba, State University of New  York at Old Westbury President Calvin O. Butts, III, participated in a ceremony recently to sign a memorandum of understanding between Old Westbury and the Universidad de Matanzas in Cuba at the…
February 2, 2018
Karl Grossman, a professor of journalism in the American Studies/Media & Communications Department at SUNY Old Westbury, has been named “Environmentalist of the Year” by the Long Island Sierra Club. The award, which recognizes a person who strives to make Long Island a better and greener place…
January 30, 2018
Writings by boarding school students and Native American public intellectuals in 19th and 20th century boarding school newspapers have lacked critical attention and remain unavailable to most scholars and students of Native American literature. Dr. Jacqueline Emery, assistant professor in SUNY Old…
November 16, 2017
Six students from the Graduate Adolescence Spanish Education Program at SUNY Old Westbury presented at the 2017 New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference, held in Niagara Falls, New York, in October.Accompanied by Professor Carolina Bustamante, the students from the College…