McClure School Blog

March 18, 2021

We interview Steve Wylie, a '00 McClure graduate from the ITS program, about his time at OU, his current career at Trace3, and the skills and advice that current and graduating students should know based on his 20 years in the industry!

March 11, 2021

Ike Riesbeck talks about his life post-grad and what he's currently doing at Cisco!

March 4, 2021

Learn how 2019 graduate Heidi Ha prepared for a career in Los Angeles and landed her position on the Netflix original show "You."

March 4, 2021

The new esports facility has finished construction in the basement of Scripps. In an interview with Jeff Juhn, we discuss the next steps that shall be taken to complete this exciting addition to OU.

February 19, 2021

Jim Gay and Adam Maslowski talk about social media, smart cities, and charity.

February 11, 2021

With a game design major moving into the J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies, opportunities for students to explore the diverse applications of VR technology alongside information & telecommunication systems have arrived in a new ITS track coming next Fall!

February 11, 2021

On October 28, 2020, in partnership with the United Nations AI for Good, Changing the Story podcast co-hosts’ Neil Suhoda and Michael Ashley welcomed Valentine Goddard to hear her story as she pioneers the unique combination of art, artificial intelligence (AI) and the law to power civil engagement and sustainability.

February 3, 2021

Max Semenczuk walks us through the preparation of the BoGS event. The Business of Games Summit is one of our largest events of the year. This event brings  together students, educators, entrepreneurs, technologists and industry participants. This year it will be broadcast in virtual format from our facilities in Schoonover Center.

January 27, 2021

As a retired professor, Hans Kruse has chosen a new hobby to stay connected to the world of information technology. Earlier this week in an interview, we learned how Professor Kruse spends some of his free time. While still being a part of the Ohio University McClure School community, Kruse has also joined the new community of Twitch.

December 8, 2020

TikTok is a short form video sharing app that, rather than having the majority of their users’ social interactions be based on pictures or written comments, let’s users make and share 15 second videos with their friends and followers.  The app has been increasing in popularity, their user-base amounting to 850 million, but news resources have been discussing the privacy concerns of the app.

December 8, 2020

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down and remotely interview the dean of our college, Dr. Scott Titsworth. The conversation focused around the role of the Scripps College in the community and the challenges the pandemic brings. 

November 20, 2020

Tech Nuggets, a video series that Doug Bowie posts on YouTube to teach students on a wide array of networking and technical components. Check it out!

November 19, 2020

With the emergence of Esports into the mainstream world, Ohio University is joining the trend. This past week in an interview with Jeff Kuhn, we learned that a new edition is coming to Ohio and it is very exciting.  This new project, organized and ran by Kuhn, is a state of the art Esports facility in the Grid Lab.

November 2, 2020

Logan Fondriest talks about esports and the ECT program!

October 30, 2020

Offered in the Spring of 2021, this is a course taught by current director of the J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies, Julio Arauz. This new course called ITS Urban Technology for Social Good will focus on understanding, identifying, and applying different ways that technology can be used to create a positive effect on society.

October 22, 2020

While Twitch is known more commonly as a streaming platform for gaming , previous director of the J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies and professor Dr. Hans Kruse plans to begin a series of streams that share a behind the scenes look at how he learns new things in both the IT and gaming world.

October 15, 2020

On September 29, 2020, the AI for Good Global Summit held a webinar about their breakthrough tracks and the projects associated with different topics. The three breakthrough track topics are Gender Equity, Future of Food, and Pandemic Intelligence. The overarching goal is to advance the United Nations sustainable development objectives by using artificial intelligence (AI) data ecosystem, community building and collaboration.

October 15, 2020

Alumnus Alyssa Stahl talks about Healium, a progressive VR company that showcases the mental healing power of VR!

October 15, 2020

Alanis Rupprecht, one of our graduate students and lead member of our PR unit, talks about her projects and motivation in the ECT program!

October 8, 2020

Near the end of Spring semester in 2020 when Covid-19 forced students and faculty to switch to online learning, The J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies created multiple gaming servers as a way for students to socialize and continue extracurricular learning as done through the Bobcat Network Innovation Center (BNIC).