Onondaga Community College's Board of Trustees welcomed home a distinguished alumnus May 9, swearing-in Dr. Daryll Dykes '83 as its newest member.
Dr. Dykes is Associate Vice President of Orthopedic Surgery, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Chief Diversity Officer…
Major at OCC: Mathematics & Science
High School: Fowler
Daryll is one of the nation’s premier spine surgeons. His love of medicine started early. As a young boy he enjoyed visiting his mother while she worked as a nurse. After graduating from high school he joined the United States Marine…
Dr. Daryll Dykes' Ph.D., MD, JD fell in love with the power of medicine at an early age. When he was a young boy growing up on Syracuse’s west side, he enjoyed visiting his mother while she worked as a nurse. After graduating from Fowler High School in 1980, Dykes joined the United States Marine…
Onondaga Community College alumnus Dr. Daryll Dykes, ‘83 has been named a 2018 Outstanding Alumni Award winner by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Dykes will receive the award Tuesday, May 1 at the AACC’s annual convention in Dallas, Texas.
Dykes love of medicine started…
Major at OCC: Engineering Science
High School: Jersey Village in Houston, class of 1998
Dr. Deirdre Hunter fell in love with science and engineering as a young woman while working on cars with her father in his auto repair business. She earned degrees from OCC, Syracuse University and Virginia…
Dr. Mary Cope '16 has the career she always dreamed about. She turned her passion for animals into a profession, working as an Animal Nutritionist for BSM Partners, a consulting firm with a primary focus in the pet care, nutraceutical, and human food/…
Major at OCC: Humanities
High School: Liverpool, class of 1975
Richard was an above average high school student who didn’t know what he wanted to do. He came to OCC and began figuring things out. “OCC started me on the path to my career. It helped me gain confidence in my academic abilities. I…
The State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees today approved Dr. Warren M. Hilton as the next President of Onondaga Community College. When Hilton takes office July 1 he will become OCC's 9th President and the College's first Black President. He succeeds Dr. Casey Crabill who is…
Onondaga Community College will celebrate the Class of 2020 with a Drive Through Commencement Diploma Festival Sunday, August 9 at 2pm. From the moment students arrive on campus they will be part of a celebration in their honor.
Students will drive on campus at the Route 175…Joe Bianchi spent nearly a decade trying to figure out what career he wanted to pursue. He finally found it in Onondaga Community College's Geospatial Science and Technology degree program.
Bianchi graduated from Cicero-North Syracuse High School in 2013 and began his college education…
Onondaga Community College paid tribute to the founder of its Baseball program Saturday with the naming of the 3rd base dugout the "Joe Antonio Dugout" in his honor. "In the immortal words of Lou Gehrig, today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," Antonio said during an…
When Chris Cresswell was growing up in Madison County, Shoppingtown Mall in the neighboring Onondaga County Town of DeWitt was one of his favorite places. "It's where I used to go with my parents. I remember playing Pokemon in Media Play. There was a pet store where I always got my fish. And as…