Several works by Oswego art students will be included in the Art Association of Oswego’s 19th annual Lakeside-Statewide Juried Art Exhibition, opening March 26. They are “Thick and Thin” by Olivia Allen, “Three French Hens” by Eileen Arnold, “Blue Green Lust” and “Touch” by Suzanne Gaffney Beason, “Tangled” by Chelsea Burgett, “Self-portrait” by Kathryne Burke, “A Walk Through the Trees” by James Clark, three untitled works by Cody Doran, “Rumination Kubikos” by Victoria Jordan, “Place No. 2” by Brittany McCann, “The Dance” by Jillian McKee, “Portrait #3” by Candice Ribiere, “Simon” by Ashley B. Santmyer, “Amanda” by Brianna C. Santmyer, “At First” by Miranda Shaffer, “Unity” by Claire Slattery and “Alabastrine” by Carlene Smith. Also in the show are “Adirondack Stream” and “Quiet Mind” by emeritus art professor Sewall Oertling, “Golgotha” by emeritus art professor Nick D’Innocenzo, “Photosynthesis: Catching Fire” by curriculum and instruction faculty member Eric Olson and “Florida Sunset” by former biology professor B. Diane Chepko-Sade. An opening reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. March 26. The show will run until April 24 during regular gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
Geoscientists from the Northeast and beyond are convening in Albany this week for the Geological Society of America’s 2016 Northeastern Section meeting. The gathering was expected to draw more than 900 attendees from a variety of geoscience disciplines. Paper presentations include “All Extinctions Are Not Created Equal: Comparison of Four Extinction Events Through the Late Devonian” by geology faculty member Diana L. Boyer; “U-PB Geochronology of Pegmatitic Granite at Streaked Mountain, Western Maine” by senior geology major Janelle A. Galster, geology faculty member Paul Tomascak and Syracuse University’s Mariana Bonich; “Granitic Gneisses of the Piseco Lake Shear Zone, Shawinigan Orogen-Parallel Deformation, and Spatial and Temporal Links to the AMCG Intrusive Event in the Adirondack Highlands, New York” by geology faculty member David Valentino and St. Lawrence University’s Jeff Chiarenzelli; and “Anatomy of the Migmatite-Granite Complex, Southwestern Maine” by Tomascak and Buffalo State’s Gary Solar. Poster presentations include “Comparative Analysis of Pyrite Framboids from Late Devonian Black Shales” by senior zoology major Juanita Diaz, pictured, whose minors include geology; “The Pattern and Process of Coastal Barrier System Outlet Closure Evaluated Using GPR at North Sandy Pond, Eastern Lake Ontario, NY” by geology faculty member J. Graham Bradley and senior geology major Benjamin Green; “Mesozoic Strata Preserved in the Miami River Graben, Central Adirondacks, New York” by Valentino, senior geology major Angela Fasano and seven other co-authors from St. Lawrence and Louisiana State universities, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, SUNY Binghamton and the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Natural Heritage Program; “Using Multiple Geophysical Techniques to Study Drumlin Deposits in Central New York” by senior geology majors Tracey Garland, Kendell Cozart-Middleton and Alex D’Alessandro, junior geology major Dana Harper, international students Luis Henrique Aguiar de Araujo and Icaro Pacheco, and Valentino; “Characterization of Geological Outcrops in the Upstate New York Region Using Giga-Pixel Panoramic Imagery” by graduate student in adolescent education Paige Haney and geology faculty member Rachel Lee; “‘Cloudsplitter’: Historical Geography and Geology of John Brown’s War Against Slavery” by Jon D. Inners of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey and other Pennsylvania researchers with Oswego’s Dana Harper.
Barry A. Friedman, professor of management, is the author of a paper—“University and Community Collaboration in Management Education: Lessons Learned and Insights after a Decade of Experiential Learning”—that has been accepted at the Eastern Academy of Management 2016 conference, scheduled for May 4 to 7 in New Haven, Connecticut. The paper details best practices in the HRM 464 senior seminar with respect to service learning and community client consulting.
Two research papers from the Advanced Wireless Systems Research Center have been accepted for oral presentation in the peer-reviewed joint IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation/U.S. National Committee for the Union for Radio Science International meeting scheduled to begin June 26 in Puerto Rico. The papers are “Wearable RF Plethysmography Sensor Using a Slot Antenna” by Prapti Ganguly, David Senior and Patanjali Parimi of Oswego’s wireless center and Amlan Chakravarti of the University of Calcutta, and “Planar Wireless Power Transfer System with Embedded Magnetic Metamaterial Resonators” by Senior and Parimi. These two papers follow the previous work from the center presented in the IEEE Big Data conference on Oct. 29 by Neha Keshan, pictured with Parimi, a visiting research scholar at the wireless center from University of Calcutta.
Shashi Kanbur, professor and chair of physics, gave a seminar Feb. 16 at SUNY Oneonta titled “The Undergraduate Astrophysics Research Program at SUNY Oswego.” He discussed Oswego’s program, which has resulted in 30-plus publications (10 with undergraduates) in the last 10 years. The program centers on the study of stellar pulsation and its application to fundamental problems in astrophysics such as the age and distance scales. The program has provided definitive evidence for sharp nonlinearities in the Cepheid period-luminosity relation and provided a plausible theoretical explanation for this nonlinearity. Predictions from this theory have recently been verified using OGLE III data. The program has collaborations in the United States, India, Brazil, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Taiwan. Undergraduate students involved in the program have been on fully or partially funded research opportunities to Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, University of Delhi, Geneva Observatory, Taiwan’s National Central University and Brazil’s Federal University of Santa Catarina. Future opportunities include working with Kepler and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project data, among others. Alumni from the program have gone on to doctoral and post-doctoral programs at Dartmouth, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts. Three 2016 graduates are going on to Cornell University and SUNY Binghamton. In other news: 
* The European Southern Observatory has accepted Kanbur’s application for a visiting position there from July 18 to Aug. 12.
* NASA has accepted a proposal for satellite viewing time to study Cepheids and RR Lyraes from the Kepler working group of which Kanbur is a member.
* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal, published by Oxford University Press, has accepted a paper co-authored by Kanbur. The lead author of “Period-Luminosity Relations Derived from the OGLE-III First-overtone Mode Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds” is Anupam Bhardwaj, a student from Delhi University in India whose doctoral thesis Kanbur is supervising, and other co-authors are international colleagues Harinder P. Singh and Chow Choong Ngeow.
* And the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in North Carolina has appointed Kanbur a research fellow in the Program on Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Methods for Astronomy. He is to be in residence there for a week in March 2017.
Senior communication and social interaction major Alyssa Levenberg was the special guest for an episode of the University Pro Podcast titled “Cultivating Student Ambassadors.” Levenberg told host Chris Alexander, the media coordinator at New York University, about the “Alyssa Explains It All” video blogging series for the college, the various ways she helps incoming students and her additional work with the Office of Communications and Marketing, student television station WTOP-10 and the communication studies department.
Tim Nekritz, associate director of communications and marketing and director of digital communications, was part of a four-member expert faculty panel for the Academic Impressions conference “Planning for a Higher Ed Redesign” Feb. 29 to March 2 in Cincinnati. Nekritz presented two interactive sessions: “Goal-Setting and Linking to Metrics” and “The Role of Video in the Higher Ed Website.”
Richard Weyhing, assistant professor of history, will present “Before 1812: The Establishment of Fort Oswego and the ‘Sixty Year’s War’ for North America” at the sixth annual Oswego International War of 1812 Symposium scheduled for April 1 to 3 at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center, 26 E. First St. in Oswego. His presentation examines David Curtis Skaggs’ idea of a “Sixty Years’ War” that waged for control of North America between 1754 and 1814. This discussion highlights the important role that Oswego played in the conflicts preceding the War of 1812 and the territorial claims made by Britain and France along the Lake Ontario region that led to them. It includes the re-telling of an event in the summer of 1756 that destroyed the outpost and its fortifications and saw 1,500 people taken as prisoners of war; the result radically altered the political landscape on both sides of the Atlantic.