The Center for Student Leadership and Involvement (CSLI) invited students and faculty to plant trees on campus to celebrate Arbor Day and Earth Day on April 26. The green-thumbed volunteers planted 125 holly trees all over campus from the Cherry Road entrance to the Campus Center and the Woodlands and […]
Old Westbury students celebrated the solar eclipse on campus on Monday April 8. New Yorkers have not seen a total eclipse since 1925. Students on campus only experienced 88% of totality. Other students took a five-hour bus trip upstate to SUNY Oswego to experience the total eclipse. The Oswego trip […]
The fire alarms “woke me up and it was scary,” said Resident Assistant, Uwanique Brown. “That was just my train of thought: ‘Get up, get outside, get the students outside.’” At about 2:10 in the morning on Wednesday, April 3, students from Woodlands Hall 2 were abruptly woken up. Four […]
President Timothy Sams celebrated his third Old Westbury anniversary on January 11, 2024. His leadership expertise is based on more than 30 years of experience in higher education. In 2023, City & State named him one of the “Long Island Power 100.” Sams is focused on creating a world class […]
Educator Keba Cairo led a resume-building workshop for Old Westbury students at the Science building on March 13. Cairo is the president for Don’t Snooze on Clues, an organization which “provides students with life skill courses.” Your chances of landing a job will be influenced by the way you come […]
Illustration: Aidan Bongiorno Do you know anybody who has been impacted by alleged financial fraud? Or are you a Forensic Accounting student interested in volunteering alongside professionals? SUNY Old Westbury’s Justice for Fraud Victims Project (JFVP) might be just what you’re looking for. The JFVP puts students to work helping […]
Students showing off their outfits Photo Credit: Jeury Pichardo SUNY Old Westbury’s fashion club Glamazon hosted its annual fashion show at the Maguire Theater on April 26 drawing attention to the creativity and skill of its student members. The show highlighted a diverse collection of clothes ranging from elegant outfits […]
DekGiudice with the campus plan. Photo Credit: Vincent Arroyo “Every crack or loose tile I see I’m like ‘man, that’s another thing to fix’,” Professor Thomas DelGiudice says when talking about the New Academic Building. He feels a sense of ownership of it and he should considering he helped design […]
Credit: Vincent Arroyo A three person crew from Lyle Welding Fabrication of Poultney, Vermont, began construction of three towering structures by artist Del Geist, outside the Campus Center On March 18. “Cracked Ice” is the first major public art exhibition erected on the campus in over forty years. “Cracked Ice” […]
Credit: @heal.palestine On April 3, SUNY Old Westbury showed a webinar of the University of Washington Department of Global Health’s webinar on the Gaza crisis. Dr. Zeena Salman, a pediatric oncologist and panelist for the event, focuses on the intersection of global health, cancer, and refugee health in her work […]
