Three students in Oswego’s human-computer interaction program were on the grand-prize-winning team at the recent Hack Upstate XII hackathon competition on Oct. 6 and 7. Oswego master’s students Zhushun Cai, Oliver Medonza and Sylvia Pericles were part of the Home Buyer Open House Web App team, along with SUNY Oswego applied mathematics alumnus Alexander Jansing, now a software engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Jennifer Tran, who is an account coordinator at C.H. Robinson. The web app they built would allow users to search for real estate open houses based on personal preferences, dates and locations -- optimizing a route that would maximize the amount of open houses that they can visit. 

Oswego art faculty member Christopher McEvoy’s "Some Kind of Nature" exhibition is running in the Mildred I. Washington Gallery at Dutchess Community College through Nov. 12. The exhibition features his paintings, drawings and mixed-media abstract collage work.

Jaclyn Schildkraut of Oswego’s criminal justice department and research partner Glenn W. Muschert of Miami University co-authored an op-ed, “Why the coverage of mass shootings continues to miss the mark and how to fix it,” that appeared in The Hill. In the column, they cited media attention to mass shooters as a continuing factor in spurring additional acts. “In prioritizing coverage of the shooters, the media have provided a reward to them for killing people,” they wrote, noting the No Notoriety campaign that proposed media outlets focus on the stories of victims, heroes and survivors instead.

Damian Schofield, director of Oswego’s human-computer interaction master’s program, co-authored “Virtual learning for safety, why not a smartphone?” published in the Wiley online library. Co-authored by Nishaben Desai Dholakiya, Milos Ferjencik and Jan Kubík, the article examines the effectiveness of a Virtual Learning Environment using Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory for chemical laboratory safety.

Art faculty member Renqian Yang presented her solo ceramics exhibition “Urban Microcosmos,” Sept. 28 to Oct. 15 at the Fou Gallery Pop-up Space, Shipyard 1862 in Shanghai, China. The exhibition included her recent ceramic installations, sculptures created in Jingdezhen and early abstract works on paper. Yang finds inspiration in negligible fragments of urban life, transforming things humans usually ignore but live with -- such as light bulbs, water faucets, and nails -- into unique ceramics and paintings. These objects are intended to keep things together, but now become useless and unconnected, according to the artist’s statement.