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...
SUNY Old Westbury senior Ishmael Moya was recently awarded for his outstanding oral presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), held in Phoenix, Arizona. Moya worked closely with Professor Youngjoo Kim, Chemistry and Physics Department, on a project...
Solomon Theo Scheiner, a senior majoring in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at SUNY Old Westbury, won first prize for an oral presentation about his undergraduate research during the annual meeting of the Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists, held April 26-27, 2025...
The Biological Sciences Department at SUNY Old Westbury was selected to be part of the 10th cohort of the HHMI Science Education Alliance's Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Sciences (SEA-PHAGES) program beginning in the 2017-2018 academic year. The program promotes the...
Ms. Christina Corye, a SUNY Old Westbury senior majoring in Biological Sciences from Brentwood, New York, has received the Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence from the State University of New York. One of only 46 students across the state to earn the award, Corye was recognized for...