March 28, 2024
Students (above, from left) Samantha Keaney and Jaime Hunter
Carolina Ilie, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, participated in two presentations at the American Physical Society March Meeting, March 4 to 8 in Minneapolis. The conference was host to more than 13,000 physicists from all over the world. Hugh Riley Randall (pictured), a student double majoring in physics and applied mathematics with a minor in astronomy, presented "On the Center of Mass of the Half n-Ball," with Ilie as co-author. The other presentation of Ilie was a part of session D11 on Non-Carbon Based Nanostructure, titled "Proximity Effect of Optically Active h-BCN nanoflakes", with co-authors Ahmad Alsaad (Jordan University of Science and Technology), Jaeil Bai (University of Nebraska - Omaha), Wai-Ning Mei (University of Nebraska - Omaha), Carolina Ilie (SUNY Oswego), Peter Doben (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), and Renat Sabirianov (University of Nebraska - Omaha).
Greg Ketcham, assistant dean of the Division of Extended Learning, was recently named to the editorial board of the International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design. The journal serves as a forum for the improvement of online education for schools, and teachers planning to implement or currently engaged in e-learning.
SUNY Oswego Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Gabriel Marshall is a member of the
Damian Schofield, director of the university’s master’s in human-computer interaction program, talked to over 300 students in two Canadian institutions and another 200 at the Vietnam National University. Schofield presented “Alternative Facts - How do you know if evidence presented in court is true?” to both Trent University in Peterborough as part of their “New Trends in Forensic Science” course, and at Humber College in Toronto in their graduate “Crime Scene Investigation” program. Schofield also gave a guest lecture in the Department of Computer Science at the Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City. The department has over 17,000 undergraduate students, as well as over 6,000 master's and doctoral students, Schofield said.
Communication studies faculty member Katherine S Thweatt recently earned the Distinguished Service Award from the Eastern Communication Association (ECA), which honors members for contributions to the field of communication in general and to ECA in particular. A past president and very involved ECA volunteer, Thweatt earned this honor at ECA's 2024 annual conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last week. Read full story.
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