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Panther Pantry To Be Relocated To Campus Center

Panther Pantry To Be Relocated To Campus Center

David Paiz-Torres March 16, 2023

Photo Credit: Image Credits: SUNY Old Westbury(Panther Food Pantry Logo) SUNY Old Westbury’s Panther Pantry will be among several offices to be relocated by March 27, 2023. The Pantry will be housed...

Bel-Air Returns to Peacock for Season 2

David Paiz-Torres March 9, 2023

Photo Credit: CNN, Entertainment/(Evans Vestal Ward/Peacock Will and his cousin Carlton Banks in the Bel-Air Academy Library. After one year of waiting, the second season of Peacock’s Bel-Air...

 SUNY Old Westbury to Receive Nearly $1.9M in Federal Funding For A New STEM Center  

 SUNY Old Westbury to Receive Nearly $1.9M in Federal Funding For A New STEM Center  

David Paiz-Torres March 1, 2023

Photo Credit: Michael Kavic linkedin.com SUNY Old Westbury President Timothy E. Sams has announced that the college had been awarded $1,870,000 through the recently passed US budget for the current...

Life in the Academic Village: Privacy and Independence

David Paiz-Torres October 2, 2022

Photo Credit: David Paiz-Torres (Photo: A recently installed kitchenette in Roosevelt Hall, of the Academic Village.) One year after the return of the Academic Village, it is obvious that “independent,...

Residence Halls Under Renovation: Woodlands Hall 4 Reopens, Halls 1 & 2 Temporarily Closed

David Paiz-Torres October 2, 2022

Photo Credit: oldwestbury.edu The new HVAC system in Woodlands has a touch-screen thermostat. (Photo/Destini Sharpe) After a year of being closed down, Woodlands Residence Hall 4 has been renovated...

Former Old Westbury Student Arrested With Loaded Firearm on Campus

Former Old Westbury Student Arrested With Loaded Firearm on Campus

David Paiz-Torres February 11, 2022

Photo Credit: sunyoldwestbury.edu A former Old Westbury student was arrested on campus for criminal possession of a firearm. University Police say the arrest occurred on February 1st following a traffic...

Democracy is on its Deathbed in Nicaragua

Dpaiztorr November 9, 2021

On November 7, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua was re-elected for a fifth term as president in an election that was fraught with corruption, intimidation and fraud. President Ortega and his wife, Vice President...

Fall 2021 Enrollment Levels

David Paiz-Torres November 4, 2021

In the face of a global pandemic, in-person courses are back in session at SUNY Old Westbury but with reduced enrollment levels and fewer in-person course offerings. According to Director of Institutional...

A Complete Mess and Utter Disappointment: Old Westbury Students React to the Return of the Academic Village

Dpaiztorr October 22, 2021

A “complete mess and utter disappointment” is how Dmitri Sarmiento, a junior residential student studying Computer Science is characterizing his experience in the newly-reopened Academic Village. Students...

Residential Burglary Near Campus

Dpaiztorr and KHorton October 6, 2021

University Police Chief Steven Siena is advising residential students to “lock their doors” and to “refrain from allowing entrance to the residence halls to people unknown to them,” as they investigate...

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