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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…
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…
New offerings include College's first online degree offering The State University of New York at Old Westbury has announced three new graduate degree programs that will begin classes in fall 2019, including the College’s first fully online degree offering. The online M.S. in Accounting will…
Dr. Jacqueline Emery, an assistant professor in the English Department at SUNY Old Westbury, recently had her book “Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press” earn the 2018 Outstanding…
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…