Wednesday, December 13, 2023
International Recognition
Art department faculty co-create award-winning work Adeola Favour OSU News
Oklahoma State University’s Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History faculty members, Nick Mendoza and Pouya Jahanshahi, recently won the “Cultural” category at the Intercontinental Bienal Awards for their poster design. The competition received 19,543 submissions from 17,125 artists ranging from package design to sculpture to painting. The rigorous selection process evaluated the works and eventually shortlisted 45 finalists for each award. In the end, the professors’ poster — designed to promote Steven McCarthy’s guest lecture at OSU earlier this year — was among the 15 pieces across all categories chosen for recognition. “This holds special significance,” Mendoza said. “It represents not only the excellence and uniqueness of our artistic expression but also placed us among a select group of international artists celebrated by the jury.” “It was a sweet surprise,” Jahanshahi added. “It is an honor to be chosen as the best in a category among many entries from across the globe.” See Art on 6
Courtesy of the College of Arts & Sciences Two faculty members in the Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History recently won the “Cultural” category at the Intercontinental Bienal Awards.
How do public spaces make you feel? University measuring equity by tracking how people respond to urban design Darcel Rockett Chicago Tribune
as fluctuations in participants’ heart rates will be gathered to learn more about what they were feeling in the area as well. Stuhlmacher said the app will track how participants move through CHICAGO -- Can a public space public spaces and how they move feel healthy and equitable? through their daily life, while also DePaul University researchers checking in with how they’re feeling are looking at the built environment based on their surroundings. If you and public spaces hoping to answer couple that information with satelthat question with the help of high-tech lite imagery that tells us how green or wearable eye-tracking glasses. With a how built out a public space is with a camera in the front of the lenses, the variety of participants across different glasses record wherever your head economic zones, Stuhlmacher says, we points, tracks eye movement, and recan understand what it is they’re excords locations and heart rates. periencing as they interact with public In tracking how people look at spaces in their neighborhood, near their their environment and asking how they workplace or where they recreate. feel while in those areas, Kimberly “We have a lot of information Quinn, DePaul’s psychology departlooking at people’s home neighborment chair, and Michelle Stuhlmacher, hoods, but we don’t have nearly as assistant professor of geography and much understanding of other kinds of geographic information systems, aim to green spaces and public spaces that they show the psychological effects of public interact with,” Stuhlmacher said. “Not spaces and urban design. everyone stays in their home census Over the next three years, data tract. We’ll get a much better picture will be gathered on people’s emotions of where they’re going and also how it and reactions through the glasses, a mo- makes them feel.” bile app and GPS mapping. Data such See Design on 5
Tribune Content Agency Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the Texas State Capitol on June 8, 2023, in Austin, Texas.
Conservative group’s hit pieces label Texas House members who helped kill ESAs ‘Grinches’ Robert T. Garrett The Dallas Morning News
Tribune Content Agency Community partner Paula Acevedo, left, wears the eye-tracking glasses with Kimberly Quinn, professor of psychology, on Nov. 27, 2023. They used the equipment at El Paseo Community Garden in Pilsen to analyze whether people of diverse backgrounds feel welcome in a public space.
Last month, House members voted 84-63 to strip education savings accounts, or ESAs, which would publicly fund private schools for certain families, from a $7.6 billion school finance bill that would have increased teacher pay and funding of public AUSTIN — A national conserschools. vative group’s state arm is labeling as Abbott hasn’t said if he will call “Grinches” some of the Texas House any more special sessions to try to members who helped kill Gov. Greg ram through the voucherlike proposal, Abbott’s voucherlike plan last month. which in the aborted House bill would In mailings to about 80,000 have provided $10,500 a year per child registered voters who regularly vote – money that could be used on tuition in primary elections, Americans for at private schools and other educationProsperity-Texas says, “Call your State related expenses. Grinch today, to change their vote on In recent days, Abbott has enEducation Savings Accounts.” dorsed Republican challengers to six Lawmakers snatched “the gift of the 16 GOP House members who of educational choice” from kids, the voted against ESAs and are seeking conservative group said Tuesday. re-election next year. See House on 6