Locals: People and Businesses in the News: January 25, 2024

STUDENTS AWARDED: Trang Nguyen, Gabriella Ragozzine, and Graham Wooden of Oneonta and Camilla Tabor of Cooperstown were among the 60 SUNY Oneonta students receiving the Richard Siegfried Student Award in the fall 2023 semester for earning a total GPA of 3.9 or higher. To be eligible for the award, a student who meets the GPA requirement must either be a full-time first-year or transfer student. Students received the award on December 5, following the annual Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence Lecture. Dr. Matthew Unangst, assistant professor of history at SUNY Oneonta, was this year’s Junior Faculty Prize recipient. He delivered this year’s Richard Siegfried Lecture, titled “Then is Now: History as Politics in Germany, Tanzania, and Beyond,” in the Morris Conference Center on campus. The award is named in memory of Richard K. Siegfried, SUNY Oneonta professor of theatre from 1958 until 1995. Professor Siegfried (or Sieg, as generations of students fondly called him) epitomized excellence in his academic life, through imagination, meticulous scholarship and discipline, and through his expectation of the same pursuit of excellence in his students and colleagues.