Biological Sciences Department

Five Oswego students conducted research to build their skills and knowledge via SUNY's Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program’s paid summer research opportunities. SUNY Oswego participants included Dominic Bachtler, who performed research on the lakeside campus; Adonis Ortiz, whose research took...

SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty members  Ellen Karboski and Nicholas Sard are leading a nearly $140,000 New York Sea Grant study assessing the status of Pacific salmon, which represent Lake Ontario's most popular recreational fishery.

Sixth-grade students from all four elementary schools in the Fulton City School District recently traded their classroom desks for hands-on discovery during a field trip to SUNY Oswego's Shineman Center and Rice Creek Field Station.

As the only university in New York on the shores of Lake Ontario, SUNY Oswego has a special connection with the Great Lake. So a faculty-student interdisciplinary presentation on microplastics research at the Quest symposium is right at home.

The next installment of Rice Creek Associates (RCA) Reflections will feature SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty member Dan Baldassarre discussing "Bird Research with Undergraduates at Rice Creek Field Station" at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 4.

What began as an outreach event for elementary schoolchildren turned into an opportunity for biological sciences faculty member Peter Newell and his students to break new ground in microbiology research.

SUNY Oswego and Northeast College of Health Sciences have announced a new partnership designed to give students a faster, more affordable path to a doctor of chiropractic degree.

New York Sea Grant will offer an update on the current state of alewife, a key forage fish supporting Lake Ontario's prized trout and salmon fishery, during a one-hour free event at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in 122...

A few years ago, biological sciences faculty member Daniel Baldassarre convinced SUNY Oswego to make an earth-friendly and bird-friendly decision to let some underused fields go wild to provide a home for bobolinks and other migrating species.

Biological sciences faculty member Maria Sagot helped organize a first-of-its-kind workshop supporting important research across the Global South on an often-misunderstood yet ecologically vital animal.

Roatan, an island in Honduras, is just one of the many locations students can travel to through the study-abroad programs offered at SUNY Oswego. This opportunity allowed students to learn more about ways to address an ecological challenge while acquiring...

A $25,000 Constellation Leading Environmental Accelerators Network (CLEAN) award will support at least five more years for SUNY Oswego's Rice Creek Field Station playing a key role in a reforestation project supporting trees important to the ecosystem.

This summer, 15 SUNY Oswego students traveled to Tanzania for the “Biodiversity and Conservation” study-abroad course led by biological sciences faculty members Susan Hammerly and Karen Sime, learning about the complex topic of conserving species while also partaking in an...

In late July, SUNY Oswego’s Office of International Education and Programs hosted 18 students and teachers from the SIS International School in Gwangju, South Korea. While the experience itself was fun for participants, it also represented the return of the...

With the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being in the path of totality for a total solar eclipse on April 8, SUNY Oswego will host student research, viewing opportunities, planetarium shows, children’s activities, lectures from experts and more on its lakeside campus.

A freshly planted garden outside of the Shineman Center aims to pay homage to incredible rare and native ecosystems found in the Finger Lakes region.

SUNY Oswego senior biology major Naw Ka Paw Paw recently joined a distinguished list of SUNY Educational Opportunity student ambassadors, a role in which she advocates for and promotes this program that opens doors to higher education for students.

Two of SUNY Oswego’s plant-focused facilities will open their doors to visitors during a joint Fall Open House on Friday, Oct 20, 2023, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SUNY Oswego, Cortland join forces with USGS and others on large-scale Great Lakes native fish conservation and restoration project

Forming friendships can help mitigate the effects of trauma early in life, according to new research released by a team led by SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty member Liz Lange. While the study involved baboons, researchers see tangible connections to...

Four SUNY Oswego students have earned the 2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence, the highest such recognition in the state system. These awards recognize outstanding accomplishments inside and outside the classroom for childhood education-English major Kaitlin Flint, zoology major...

Join Rice Creek Field Station for a Feathered Friend Festival on Saturday, May 6, for a day packed with all things birds -- from fun avian activities to up-close encounters with real birds.

Senior zoology major Danielle Marichal will survey the damage done by an invasive species, and track another species introduced to contain them, thanks to a campus grant.

The next installment of Rice Creek Associates (RCA) Reflections will feature Mike Holy discussing "A Life with Butterflies" at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at Rice Creek Field Station.

For the fourth year in a row, members of the campus community and general public are invited to celebrate National Arbor Day with the Canal Forest Restoration Project (CFRP) team at SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek Field Station. This year’s celebration...

Senior zoology student Brooke Goodman is working toward saving the lives of birds on the SUNY Oswego campus by adding window stickers to buildings around campus to divert feathered friends from them.

The SUNY Oswego herbarium will preserve and provide access to natural history while giving 20 students paid research experience, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty member Daniel Baldassarre provides migration data for the phainopepla to Audubon Society bird migration tracking tool.

Biological sciences faculty member Nicholas Sard is engaged in several grant-supported projects related to helping support the Great Lakes ecosystem.

For SUNY Oswego student Naw Ka Paw Paw, earning a position in SUNY’s 2022 Premedical Opportunity Program will continue building toward a dream that could lead to establishing clinics in her homeland of Myanmar.

A May 10 ribbon cutting ceremony marked the official opening of a new $15 million Grain Export Center, a milestone in a partnership between the Port of Oswego Authority and the SUNY Oswego that preserves the health of consumers and...

A catchy music video with nearly 27,000 views on Twitter. Tinder-style profiles of birds and their mating habits. Comic strips, sculptures and paintings.

SCA grant supports research of barred owl environmental DNA research by SUNY Oswego senior zoology major Jamie Perrin.

Discussion of groundbreaking forensic research of biochemistry major Michaela Gysbers is among the sessions on Quest day looking to make an imprint on audiences.

SUNY Oswego junior zoology major Brooke Goodman is analyzing how human noise pollution impacts the repertoire of Northern cardinals with support from a campus grant.

This summer, SUNY Oswego will launch the Biotechnology Training Camp for High School Students, which will provide local youth with opportunities to take part in cutting-edge research and learn more about having a future in science.

Rice Creek Associates (RCA), the support group for SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek Field Station, invites members of the public to an annual symposium highlighting the scholarly work of RCA small grants awardees on Saturday, Nov. 13.

Skylar Bechard came from Southern California to SUNY Oswego to join a rising Laker volleyball team and a nationally recognized zoology program. She’s one of many student-athletes looking forward to the return of live fall sports contests next week.

Every morning along the trails of Rice Creek Field Station, a faculty member and three students set out for a unique research opportunity that examines ways cardinals adapt to humans in different environments.

Biological sciences faculty member Karen Sime is among 35 higher education professionals in the country selected for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU) prestigious Emerging Leaders Program (ELP).

A collaboration between faculty in the field and in the lab with outstanding student researchers tries to crack the code of what eggshell variations might mean.

SUNY Oswego senior biology major Christian DiBiase recently earned a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest such recognition in the statewide system, for outstanding work spanning classrooms, research labs and fieldwork to help others.

For the second year in a row, members of the public are invited to celebrate National Arbor Day with the Canal Forest Restoration Project (CFRP) team at Rice Creek Field Station via a free online webinar conference on Friday, April...

Rice Creek Field Station staff and associates are finding creative ways to connect with the public this summer, including a weekly online Exploring Nature Live and programs on the station's research.

Faculty and staff in SUNY Oswego science programs found a way to lend a big hand to the Oswego Hospital by donating 16,600 gloves to Oswego Hospital.

A great horned owl found injured at SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek Field Station recently completed her comeback story, released back into her wild home on Jan. 10.

The work of four SUNY Oswego student researchers and a faculty member tracking and potentially combatting an invasive species -- for which they made the first discovery in Oswego County -- recently earned publication.

Research from Daniel Baldassarre, a current SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty member, found only the third kind of bird with a particular and peculiar migration pattern -- which captured widespread attention and opens the door to even more research on...

Over the summer, 13 SUNY Oswego students from six majors learned about biology, conservation and culture first-hand through a class that traveled across northern Tanzania.

SUNY Oswego honored two faculty members with the Award of Excellence in Research and Sponsored Programs, based on outstanding dedication to seek and obtain external funding, and the cumulative funds in which they have received.

Dr. Kamal Mohamed, director of SUNY Oswego's Rice Creek Biological Field Station, has signed on to assist -- and expand -- a citizen-science project to repopulate white oak and white pine trees along the New York state canal system and...

Biological sciences faculty member Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan -- "Dr. Poon" as her student research assistants know her -- has earned the 2019 Provost's Award for Mentoring in Scholarly and Creative Activity.

SUNY Oswego senior biology major Manna Job recently earned a top prize at the Sigma Xi International Conference for research on how a widely used chemical impacts the environment.

SUNY Oswego faculty and student scientists working to monitor and protect an environmentally sensitive Oswego County habitat of endangered species also plan to work with the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District to hold neighborhood education sessions about how...

SUNY Oswego’s 2018 Northern New York Library Network Outstanding Student Employee award honored makerspace assistant Tenaja Smith-Butler, a three-year Penfield Library employee.

Giraffes and elephants grazing alongside cattle and goats. Lions lounging in acacia and sausage trees. Terrain as varied as Kilimanjaro's mountain, the Serengeti's plains and Lake Manyara's wetlands and woodlands. Elite, heavily armed "rhino rangers." Strict rules on human-wildlife contact.

Thanks to a nearly $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, undergraduate researchers, starting this summer, are working with Dr. Yulia Artemenko of SUNY Oswego's biological sciences faculty to investigate how single cells determine where to move, which could have implications for...

Ongoing research by three New York colleges shows that Great Lakes contaminants continue a welcome and dramatic downward drop, said project investigator James Pagano, director of SUNY Oswego’s Environmental Research Center.

SUNY Oswego alumna Dr. Hilary McManus will return to campus to discuss her role in a global initiative for women in science and her February journey to Antarctica at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, April 26.

Dr. Jennifer Olori of the biological sciences faculty recently won a National Science Foundation grant for a project designed to provide undergraduates -- particularly women, who remain underrepresented in sciences and math -- with research experiences focused on head-first burrowing...

Autumn at SUNY Oswego's Rice Creek Field Station will bring nature education programming in the form of Rice Creek Rambles, Story Hours for children and plenty of opportunities to tour the updated headquarters.

SUNY Oswego’s Summer Scholars program is one of many avenues funding and making research available for students. And students like Cliff-Simon Vital enjoy the opportunities.

Zoology major Lauren Saroli was 1 of 4 Oswego students earning 2017 Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence, the highest such honor in the SUNY system.

Millions around the world followed the pregnancy of April the giraffe -- and the care of her favorite keeper, Allysa Swilley, a 2015 SUNY Oswego zoology graduate.

A state-administered grant program recently boosted its longtime support of Rice Creek Field Station to $175,000 over five years -- a $10,000-a-year bump that has enabled hiring of student curators for animal collections and much more.

SUNY Oswego’s recently opened herbarium features more than 50,000 dried and mounted plant specimens in a historically significant collection that links the main campus’ scientific education and research mission with that of Rice Creek Field Station.

Thanks to a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant, three SUNY Oswego undergraduates spent three weeks at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, this summer unearthing such fossils as the tiny jaws of ancient animals—and the fossilized bones of...

SUNY Oswego faculty and students have taken on a project to slow or stop the advance of cattails threatening to choke the sensitive Oswego County habitat of two rare species, the bog buckmoth and bog turtle.Biological sciences faculty members Dr....

SUNY Oswego cooperative education student employees William Ernest and Alison Taylor (from left) speak with Port of Oswego Executive Director Zelko Kirincich and college President Deborah F. Stanley, a strong supporter of college-community partnerships that spur economic development.

Under a $1.5 million share of an Environmental Protection Agency grant, SUNY Oswego and its Environmental Research Center will continue in a research partnership that has documented marked declines in older chemical pollutants in the Great Lakes.“Most legacy chemical compounds...

Dr. Jennifer Olori of SUNY Oswego’s biological sciences faculty co-authored research published Oct. 26 in the international journal Nature suggesting that regeneration of limbs, unique in modern salamanders, may have been a widespread feature that other four-legged vertebrates lost in...

The SUNY Oswego President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advisement for 2015 will honor biological sciences staff member Lisa Brancato, Mary Rodgers of the finance faculty in the School of Business and Karen Wolford, professor of psychology. The honorees will...

A major National Science Foundation grant recognizes the research and accomplishments of SUNY Oswego biological sciences faculty member Christopher Chandler while providing research opportunities for his students at Oswego and overseas.