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Keeping its promise to graduates, SUNY Oneonta held a graduation recognition and celebration for the Class of 2020 on Saturday, Oct. 30, on campus in the Alumni Field House.

More than 30 student volunteers teamed up with community members to help clean debris from a local creek following severe flash flooding in Otsego County. SUNY Oneonta geology major Carlene Eaton, president of the college’s Geology Club, rallied a group of student volunteers for the Sept. 25 cleanup after learning about the flood from Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Les Hasbargen, a member of the Butternut Valley Alliance and a resident of the town of Morris.

In an immersive applied learning project dubbed the “SUNY Oneonta Gamer Lab,” Assistant Professor of Media Studies Karen Stewart and more than 20 of her students spent 600 hours over the course of five years building a video game called “Leap of Faith” from the ground up. It’s now available to play, thanks to a month-long installation on the first floor of Milne Library.

New York Times best-selling author Dashka Slater visited SUNY Oneonta on Monday, Oct. 18, to deliver the Mills Distinguished lecture and discuss her non-fiction narrative, "The 57 Bus," with students, faculty and other campus community members.

Thanks to the research and persistence of faculty and students in SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP), Hartwick Seminary’s Evangelical Lutheran Church will be recognized and protected through the New York State Register of Historic Places and nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.