The weather was beautiful for Arbor Day festivities at SUNY Old Westbury where a team of students, faculty and staff worked together to plant 125 trees, donated by Bartlett Tree Experts of Westbury, New York. “Arbor Day promotes a better future, and its meaning speaks clearly to our mission-based...
State University of New York at Old Westbury was honored with 2017 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. About the honor, College President Calvin O. Butts, III said: “Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright said it well when he...
SUNY Old Westbury has been honored with 2019 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. This marks the fourth consecutive year the campus has earned the honor. "Providing for students a campus that appreciates and protects its...
When Associate Professor of Visual Arts Patty Harris boarded a 180-foot expedition vessel in July 2025, she stepped into a world few ever see. For 16 days, she experienced an icy wilderness, drifting glaciers, and landscapes undergoing rapid change. She traveled after having been selected for the...
The buzz of conversation, crunching of SunChips â, and munching of Moon Pies â in the crowd of more than 300 was replaced with a collective hush and murmurs of wonder at approximately 3:27 p.m. on April 8, 2024, as a solar eclipse reached its peak for the Long Island region. While not in the path of...
Along with the everyday need to be in peak condition, players who took part this summer in the 140th edition of tennis' U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York, were faced with an array of new concerns and protocols brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic...
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...