McClure School Blog
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September 23, 2021
Learn about Immersive Audio with Jordan Herron, an OU Alumnus and an employee of the McClure School as an immersive media producer and audio specialist for the Game Research Immersive Design (GRID) Lab.
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September 20, 2021
Pete Hyde reflects on the skills he learned in ITS and how they translate to his programing position for Project 816, a team competing in the American-Made Challenges’ Waves to Water Contest.
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September 14, 2021
The J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies is planning to have a new Network Security course join to ECT curriculum in Fall 2022! The course is planned to be created and led by University IT Auditor and adjunct professor Bruce Tong, an alumnus of the Information and Telecommunication Systems program.
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September 10, 2021
Allison Epperson, ĢƵ University Graduate Alumn, reflects on her directing and producing career and how her experience enhances her role now as a producer for the GRID Lab's Medicaid Equity Simulation Project.
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September 7, 2021
The Athens Police Department, in conjunction with the Voinovich School and Scripps College of Communications, hosted an event at The Ridges showcasing virtual reality technology that is being utilized by various Appalachian Police Departments for public good.
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August 20, 2021
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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!
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March 11, 2021
Ike Riesbeck talks about his life post-grad and what he's currently doing at Cisco!
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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."
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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.
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February 19, 2021
Jim Gay and Adam Maslowski talk about social media, smart cities, and charity.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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 ĢƵ University McClure School community, Kruse has also joined the new community of Twitch.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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November 19, 2020
With the emergence of Esports into the mainstream world, ĢƵ University is joining the trend. This past week in an interview with Jeff Kuhn, we learned that a new edition is coming to ĢƵ 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.
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November 2, 2020
Logan Fondriest talks about esports and the ECT program!