Jackie Schildkraut of the criminal justice faculty recently was appointed the Rockefeller Institute of Government’s new interim executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium. Schildkraut will lead the consortium and its more than 50 interdisciplinary gun violence researchers across eight states and territories as the nation confronts a renewed surge in gun violence. As interim executive director, Schildkraut will continue to expand the consortium’s network of researchers, connecting research from across a range of disciplines to produce actionable policy recommendations for policymakers. A national expert on school and mass shootings, Schildkraut’s work focuses on the effectiveness of policies aimed at prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery. Read full story.
In addition, Schildkraut saw additional work come to fruition as she worked with the National Center for School Safety to develop a custom learning module based on her work on lockdowns. The training module went live in late January. Schildkraut and former student research assistant (and 2020 alumnus) Jacob Sheingold, now a University at Albany Law School student, co-authored a paper titled “Understanding More Than 50 Years of Mass Public Shootings as a Function of Routine Activities" accepted for publication in Homicide Studies.
A talented crew of 11 SUNY Oswego theatre students shared in a total of six awards earlier this year in the annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Region 2 Conference. Kuvar Bhatnagar, Emily Foreman, Abby Hines, Lorenne Huaman, Alexis Miller, Rachel Monson, Maria Przepiora, Hualbin Ramirez, Ryan Ricketts, Edward Salazar and Sabrina Taylor all received recognition for their work as dramaturgs on the school’s October performances of the play “Elsewhere.” Besides the play’s dramaturgy hub page, the dramaturgy team also won an award for the lobby display they put up outside the theater. Bhatnagar also won an individual award for his dramaturgy work on the one-act piece “The Vivian Play.” Przepiora’s work during the KCACTF’s Stage Directors and Choreographers Directing Initiative earned runner-up honors. In photo above, from left, theatre faculty member Toby Malone joins five of these award-winners backstage in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre: Ricketts, Bhatnagar, Monson, Hines and Przepiora. Read full story.
A SUNY Oswego submission titled “American Robin Egg Shell” won the month of November’s 2021 JEOL SEM/TEM/EPMA Image Contest. Biological sciences faculty member Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan submitted by photo with credit going to student researcher Muhammadzohir Hidoyatov, as part of the ongoing project titled "A Comparative Study of Eggshells of Passeriformes Birds," a collaboration with biological science faculty member and ornithologist Daniel Baldassarre. In the photo above, Hidoyatov and Geetha-Loganathan show the award-winning image
Political sciences faculty member Helen Knowles received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to travel to do archival research for her next book project. “This is an extremely prestigious grant and for the kind of work I do, it is one of the biggest grants out there,” Knowles noted. “I'm writing a biography of Lucile Lomen. She was the first woman to clerk (in 1944!) for a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She then went on to a 3-decade glass ceiling-shattering career as a counsel for General Electric (back when corporations were far more male-dominated than they are now). The grant will enable me to travel to Alaska and Washington State to do research."
Junior global and international studies major Lethe White earned a Gilman Scholarship to study abroad in Japan in fall 2022. “Japan ended up being my choice because my roommate right now is from Japan, so I learned a lot about the culture and country from her," said White (right, with Education Abroad Specialist Kelsey Gillett). "I was also really lucky to take a Japanese course through the university this semester, so that influenced my decision and it all came together really well.” Read more about this scholarship and other study-abroad funding opportunities.