Psychology Department

In winning a big SUNY award –- the only undergraduate to do so –- May 2025 SUNY Oswego psychology graduate Patrycja Kulesza attributed the accomplishment to a team effort, and the accumulation of many smaller steps and interactions.

Gabriella Patterson, a double major in wellness management and psychology, will present research at Quest on April 23 that examines how to better prepare students for success in college and beyond.

For Katie Karlen, a SUNY Oswego dual major in psychology and public relations, a Quest poster presentation promoting a better understanding of neurodiversity comes from a longstanding interest.

SUNY Oswego psychology faculty member Mark Mirabito has earned the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching.

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...

SUNY Oswego psychology faculty member Sien Hu will study the impacts of aging and related impairments on the human brain, thanks to a five-year grant of more than $2 million total from the National Institutes of Health.

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.

SUNY Oswego student Horane Daley recently released his second book, “The Boy That Wrote Love,” a collection of poems that explore love, heartbreak, healing and self-love.

SUNY Oswego senior psychology major Quinn Ceilly’s current research project focuses on such common challenges as anxiety, overthinking and related issues that might deserve more exploration, with support from a campus grant.

Abigail Lashinsky, a junior double majoring in wellness management and psychology, will explore student-athletes’ connections to wellness, a sense of belonging and the impacts of the pandemic as part of a Quest presentation on April 6.

Three faculty members earned campus awards recognizing outstanding achievements in scholarly and creative activities.

Koushank Harinder Singh Ahuja of Faridabad, India, and Olivia Colon of East Durham have been selected as the Oswego Alumni Association’s 2021 Outstanding Senior Award recipients.

For Ian Cummins and Theo Johnson, winning the Global Game Jam competition months ago in New York City was just the beginning of an adventure that includes their game’s inclusion in a startup’s new system.

Campus Compact recently named Ariel Gutman-Gates, a SUNY Oswego junior psychology major, one of only 262 Newman Civic Fellows nationwide for 2019-20, recognizing his passion and hard work in growing the college's program for students who struggle with food insecurity.

The Circle of Security Parenting program to break the cycle of abuse and neglect of children in Oswego County -- founded locally by SUNY Oswego psychology chair Dr. Matt Dykas -- recently made a big leap in momentum.

Karen Wolford, coordinator of the advanced certificate in interdisciplinary trauma studies at SUNY Oswego, and Ivan Castro (graduate of SUNY Oswego) appeared on WSYR's "Bridge Street" to promote awareness about the signs and symptoms of PTSD.

Two SUNY Oswego alumni are living proof that love -- of each other and of teaching -- can span distance and time apart.

SUNY Oswego psychology professor Matthew Dykas and a team of certified parenting educators have gained critical momentum in a five-year effort to address one of society's great challenges -- reducing abuse and neglect of children by providing mothers and fathers...

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...