The SUNY Old Westbury School of Education recently welcomed a nationally recognized speaker on issues of race, culturally responsive pedagogy, and diversity to discuss with its students, alumni and partnering school districts how to move towards more equitable school experiences for Black and Latinx...
Spending time in a small group with an internationally recognized physicist reviewing his work in supersymmetry is not the norm for most undergraduate college students. For students engaged in the Long Island High Energy and Astrophysics Undergraduate Pathway (LEAP-UP) initiative at SUNY Old...
New York Times bestselling author and poet Ross Gay visit SUNY Old Westbury earlier this month for the First Year Experience’s Common Reading event. Gay's book of poems, " An Unabashed Catalog of Gratitude," was the selection read in the Ethics of Engagement course this semester enjoyed by more than...
SUNY Old Westbury's Biological Sciences Department h ad renewed its accelerated B.S./Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine agreement with New York Institute of Technology's College of Osteopathic Medicine. The program allows Old Westbury students to complete three years towards the Bachelor of Science...
SUNY Old Westbury and its campus community had a remarkable 2023! Let's look back on the highlights: SUNY Old Westbury is now formally recognized as a university! President Timothy Sams was inaugurated as the institution's 6th president Expanded the Panther Food Pantry, and earned a U.S. Department...
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will provide the 2019 First Year Student Common Reading Keynote at SUNY Old Westbury on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 7 p.m. He will be speaking on his recent book, “What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our...
SUNY Old Westbury student Melodie Cadichon, a Biochemistry major who completed her studies in May, was named the first recipient of the newly established "Dr. Henry Teoh Award for Outstanding CSTEP Graduating Senior" — a $1,000 annual award that recognizes exceptional achievement, leadership, and...