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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…
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…
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…
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…
Old Westbury Experiences Solar Eclipse 2017Faculty and staff from across SUNY Old Westbury's campus gathered on August 21, 2017 to witness the solar eclipse.Ryan Baker from Information Technology Services donated his telescope for the day to enhance the viewing of the celestial phenomena.The…
Associate Professor of Politics, Economics and Law Carolyn Cocca recently won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for her book “Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation.” Receiving the Eisner in the “Best Academic/Scholarly Work” category, Cocca was presented the award during the annual…
More than 100 students from the SUNY Old Westbury's CSTEP and STEP programs, and faculty and staff from across the College got to experience the "Know Your Sugar" cross-country tour on Friday, July 21, 2017. Sculptors Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels are traversing the United States to raise…
Sunday, May 21, 2017 marked a singular date in the history of the School of Professional Studies as the first students to complete their degrees via SUNY Old Westbury’s newest academic unit crossed the stage during the College’s 51st Commencement Ceremony.The 10 new alumni from the School of…
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