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The Catalyst

Campus COVID-19 Data Available Online

The Catalyst September 14, 2020

Good Afternoon! SUNY Old Westbury today posted to its website a campus COVID-19 Status page that provides information on the campus' testing efforts, including test results and numbers of positive COVID-19...

A Message from President Butts

The Catalyst August 28, 2020

To the SUNY Old Westbury Community: I am writing to you today, my last day actively leading SUNY Old Westbury as president.  As was previously announced, I am retiring from the day-to-day responsibilities...

Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

The Catalyst July 1, 2020

Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era "You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war." This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph...

Imagining the Mulatta:Blackness in the US and Brazilian Media

The Catalyst June 4, 2020

  Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot.Both nations have long used...

Special Interview: Noam Chomsky on COVID-19 and its Impact

Special Interview: Noam Chomsky on COVID-19 and its Impact

The Catalyst April 19, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lciwaaFQqCk&t=83s OWTV Intern Julie Goldsmith recently interviewed world-known linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on COVID-19 and its impact.

Social Media Platforms Update Their Software to Promote Social Distancing and Fact-Checking Information

Social Media Platforms Update Their Software to Promote Social Distancing and Fact-Checking Information

Ldimatte April 10, 2020

Instagram and Facebook are updating their platforms to promote social distancing during COVID-19 to promote governmental enforced social distancing regulations. Instagram has teamed up with its parent...

Micro-Credentials Arrive at SUNY OW

Micro-Credentials Arrive at SUNY OW

SValentin November 14, 2019

Micro-credentials are now available at SUNY Old Westbury and are available for non-degree students. Micro-credentials are a digital form of certification that indicates competency in a specific skill or...

2019 President's Annual Fall Convocation

2019 President’s Annual Fall Convocation

BKnibbs October 19, 2019

President Calvin O. Butts III welcomed the new student body of incoming freshmen to SUNY Old Westbury during his fall convocation on September 4th. Speaking at the Clark Athletic Center, Dr. Butts...

Nicole Paultre Bell-Earle

Nicole Paultre Bell-Earle

Brianna Knibbs March 9, 2019

Myself on the left and Nicole Paultre Bell-Earle on the rightPhoto Credit: Random Student (picture was taken on my phone) Nicole Paultre Bell-Earle, a social justice activist and former fianceé...

Let’s Talk Money This Holiday Season

Let’s Talk Money This Holiday Season

Vanessa Gomez December 17, 2018

The holiday season is approaching, and phone applications like Afterpay and Acorns are here to make your life easier. Afterpay helps save you from the headache of trying to afford a holiday gift for...

How Smart Are the Smart Classrooms?

How Smart Are the Smart Classrooms?

Arlyn Sorto November 25, 2018

DVD players in many classrooms are either missing or broken due to ongoing technology problems at SUNY Old Westbury. Broken players in the New Academic Building (NAB) and in room F114 of the Campus...

#WhyIDidntReport

Arlyn Sorto October 17, 2018

I’ll never forget the smell of burnt hair that night. The flat iron was set to singe and I must have straightened my hair five times before I left the house. It was still chilly out so I had my cutest...

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