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Aug. 31, 2022
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Several faculty and staff members earned SUNY Distinguished ranks and Chancellor’s Awards over the summer, as announced via Oswego Today. Honorees include:
- Ashraf Attia (pictured above), professor and chair of marketing and management,
Joshua McKeown, associate provost for international education and programs, was invited to represent SUNY Oswego at the European Union "KA 107 Erasmus+" international conference at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Madrid, July 4 to 8. He presented along with 80 other university delegates from around the world. Erasmus+ is the European Union's mechanism for facilitating student and staff mobility. Congratulating McKeown in this photo is Pablo Salvadores, URJC's director of international projects and relations; URJC is an exchange partner of SUNY Oswego. At right is ...
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics Ampalavanar Nanthakumar had an article titled "A Comparison of Vine and Hierarchical Copulas as Discriminants" published in the most recent issue of the International Journal of Statistics and Probability. Also, Nanthakumar presented a paper "Copula Models for Trivariate Exponential Distribution" at the annual Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) Statistics conference in Greece.
Sofia Luz Pérez, a December 2021 graduate, won one of only three Best of SUNY awards at the 2021-2022 Best of SUNY Student Art exhibition for her painting, “Know Thyself, Heal Thyself.” As an award-winning piece, it will remain on display at SUNY Plaza in Albany through November. Read full story.
Jaclyn Schildkraut of the criminal justice faculty appeared on CNN with research partner Amanda Nickerson of the University at Buffalo to discuss their research on lockdown drills on Aug. 14. They explained how, when done correctly, lockdown drills can prevent loss of life by better preparing students, teachers and administrators. The appearance followed the publication of their opinion piece, "The critics are wrong. School lockdown drills can help save lives." in the Washington Post on Aug. 9. In addition to her faculty position, Schildkraut is interim director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, while Nickerson directs the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention at UB.
Communication studies faculty member Jason Zenor published "A Trigger Warning? Engagement, Reception and Appreciation of Pop Music with Dark Lyrics" in the Northwest Journal of Communication. The study used a mixed-methods approach to assess how listeners read the song "Pump-Up Kicks" by Foster the People, which was a pop song about a school shooter. The study suggests that how audiences engage music will dictate how they read the lyrics and that nostalgia may play a bigger role when it comes to reading lyrical messages compared to messages in visual media.