SUNY Oneonta

A team of students from SUNY Oneonta will compete in the semifinal round of the 2013 College Fed Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday, Nov. 18. Teams from 36 schools in the Second District competed in the first round of the competition at John Jay College on Nov. 5, and the SUNY Oneonta contingent bested teams from the five other schools in its bracket to advance to the semifinals.

Anthony Castoria of Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, is the winner of a video contest organized by the SUNY Oneonta Office of Sustainability to promote the college's new single-stream recycling program. Castoria, a senior majoring in mass communications, won a $100 gift card to the college's bookstore for his video, which offered a light-hearted take on which items can -- and cannot -- be tossed into the new blue recycling bins on campus.

SUNY Oneonta senior Julia Fremante of Guilderland, N.Y., is the winner of the 2013 New York State Economics Association (NYSEA) Undergraduate Student Paper Competition. A business economics major with a concentration in finance, Fremante was one of six students chosen to present papers during the NYSEA's 66th Annual Meeting at Farmingdale State College from Oct. 4-5.

The SUNY Oneonta Poetry Slam Team finished in 10th place out of 59 teams from across the country after making it to the semifinal round of a national collegiate poetry slam tournament in April. The SUNY Oneonta slammers faced off against teams from Stanford University, Wesleyan University, University of California-Berkeley and Virginia Commonwealth University during a semifinal bout in the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) at Barnard College on April 5. Hosted by the Association of College Unions International, CUPSI is the only licensed poetry slam tournament bringing college students together to showcase their talents in the competitive art of performance poetry. During the four-day tournament, more than 400 poets representing 59 colleges and universities from across the United States attended workshops and competed for top honors in collegiate performance poetry. This year's event marked the highest attendance in history. The following students were members of the 2013 SUNY Oneonta Poetry Slam Team:

The following local residents were part of a 16-member SUNY Oneonta student delegation recognized with an Honorable Mention Award at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City from April 1- 5. The conference attracted over 2,000 students representing more than 100 colleges and universities from around the world, and only the top 10 percent of participants achieved this recognition.