From sandstone to success

The lasting impact of a Geology field trip
Featured Stories
A preview of Alumni Reunion 2025
Honoring achievement, reuniting friends
Student films recognized at national industry conference
“They were shoulder-to-shoulder with people who are driving conversations in our media landscape.”
Alumni Profiles & Stories
Dressing the stars
New Paltz alumna designs costumes on hit Netflix show
Five months, 14 states, one outfit
Following one alumna's journey on the Appalachian Trail
‘I could see it being my purpose’
History grad expands the narrative as Ulster County Historian
Alumni Reunion 2024
Forever Orange and Blue
SUNY New Paltz welcomed more than 300 alumni and their families back to campus for Alumni Reunion 2024
Alumni engage with big ideas as lifelong learners
Three alumni-led discussions took place, in addition to other lectures and talks
Strengthening New Paltz ties through its affinity groups
A total of seven affinity events, ranging from gatherings to a full-blown gala, took place over the weekend
2024 Edition
Legacy of Opportunity
Antonio Bonilla ’87 (Spanish) ’05g (Humanistic-Multicultural Education) on the past, present and future of the Educational Opportunity Program
Hawks Hoops for the Win
Men's and Women's basketball teams claim conference titles in one wild weekend
University mourns passing of its alumni
University remembers Rosemarie McBride, faculty member and two-time alumna, and John Cogswell, esteemed silversmith, educator and alumnus
Class Notes
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Charles Dumas (Political Science) was honored on November 17, 2024 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Centre Film Festival. Charles is an actor, writer, and director with over 400 shows to his name. He is a Professor Emeritus from Penn State University’s School of Theatre, notable for being the first African American to achieve tenure in the Penn State department and for directing Raisin in the Sun as the first African American play on the PSU mainstage.
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Terilee Edwards-Hewitt (Psychology) published a new academic article titled "The Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial of Alexandria, Virginia: A remembered, forgotten, and re-remembered memory site; Journal of American Culture September 2024." This summer she was selected as one of twenty participants for the 2024 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute Towards a Peoples History of Landscape: Black and Indigenous History; in Richmond, Virginia. Terilee teaches anthropology at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. 
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Leah Alper '23g (Adolescence Ed: Chemistry) was chosen by the Knowles Teacher Initiative as a member of its 2024 Cohort of Teaching Fellows. Thirty-one promising mathematics and science teachers who are just beginning their careers were awarded Knowles Teaching Fellowships. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and Sociology from Bowdoin College in 2017, and MAT in Chemistry from SUNY New Paltz in 2023, and is currently working towards an MSEd in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages from SUNY Brockport.  
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