Esfir Pievskaya, a double major in English and illustration, earned a competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for an opportunity this fall in Italy. The Gilman Scholarship was suggested as an opportunity by advisers as Pievskaya explored options for a semester-long study abroad experience. The prestigious scholarship requires an on-site service project, which will be "an art book showcasing my Italian experience through sketches and notes," Pievskaya explained. "I believe this project will inspire art students at SUNY Oswego to see the value of real-life experiences for artists." Read full story.
At the SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNY CDO) annual conference, Tina Cooper of Experiential Courses and Engaged Learning (EXCEL) was elected to become the organization's youngest female president. Cooper has served as SUNY Oswego’s internship and student employment coordinator for the past seven years. In addition to SUNY CDO, she is recognized for her work with the Central New York Career Development Association and the SUNY Applied Learning Community of Practice.
Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy Shashi Kanbur published a book review, titled “Mars, Mars and More Mars Forever,” in the Springer journal Metascience. The review looked at Matthew Shindell’s “For the Love of Mars,” calling it “an interesting approach to the study of the history of science by concentrating on one object, and tracing how this object has been perceived throughout human history.”
Criminal justice faculty member Marthinus Koen and 2022 SUNY Oswego graduate Gabrielle Roubanian were among the co-authors of “Prosecutorial perceptions of discovery reform on a local level,” published in Quantitative Criminology. The case study considers how prosecutors at a large prosecutorial agency in the United States made sense of discovery reforms implemented in its state two years before data collection. Koen and Roubanian’s role in the research began when she was an Oswego undergraduate; Roubanian is currently finishing work on her master’s at Southeast Missouri State University.
Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Gabriel Marshall was named one of City & State’s Trailblazers in Higher Education, a list of 100 professionals across New York state serving the next generation by keeping the Empire State at the forefront of an ever-changing educational world. The listing noted his ongoing leadership accomplishments as well as his selection to the inaugural cohort of SUNY’s Black Leadership Institute.
The research of May 2024 graduate Hugh Riley Randall was cited in the breakthrough discovery of the existence of gravity waves in Earth’s stratosphere during solar eclipses. Randall’s role in analyzing data came via an internship with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, analyzing data from several institutions –- including a SUNY Oswego faculty-student research team –- under the National Eclipse Ballooning Project. Forbes science writer Jamie Carter noted the importance of this discovery, as gravity waves form through differences in temperature between day and night, as findings showed “The cold, dark shadow cast by the moon during an eclipse creates a thermal shock that sends out ripples in the atmosphere.”
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