SMASH THE CRASH

Richard Fadok will deliver a lecture to the Rochester Birding Association on Smash the Crash and our efforts to prevent bird-window collisions in Rochester, New York.

Richard Fadok will give a talk about integrating bird-window collisions and bird-safe design into undergraduate curricula at the 2025 Bird Collision Prevention Alliance’s virtual summit. His talk is titled “Teaching the Crisis: Reflections on a Feral Pedagogy.”

Mizin Shin and Richard Fadok curated a mixed-media exhibition of bird-window collision artwork in the University of Rochester’s Frontispace Gallery, including photographs, zines, and bird-safe prints.

Richard Fadok spoke on a panel at the Irondequoit Public Library about bird-safe homes and gardens with June Summers from the Genesee Valley Audubon Society.

Richard Fadok gave a lecture about bird-window collisions to students in Campus Ecology.

Richard Fadok gave a lecture about bird-window collisions to students in Gallery Practicum.

Richard Fadok wrote an article about bird-window collisions for the Rochester Birding Association’s members’ newsletter.

Our Fall 2025 building monitoring study at the University of Rochester began.

Our Fall 2025 building monitoring study downtown began.

Brandon Molina put together a poster featuring results from our Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 building monitoring studies at the University of Rochester. He will present it at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society in St Louis, MO.

Brandon Molina received a Research Presentation Award from the University of Rochester’s Office of Undergraduate Research. This award will allow him to attend the 2025 annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society and share results from our building monitoring studies.

The Genesee Valley Audubon Society generously funded the printing of the bird-safe window films designed by Mizin Shin’s Expanded Print Media students. They will be installed over the summer at Sage Art Center.

Our Spring 2025 building monitoring study at the University of Rochester concluded.

Richard Fadok and Mizin Shin ran a public arts workshop in tandem with Holly Greenberg. Participants created fabric replicas of bird-collision victims for Greenberg’s project Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene and made prints of birds affected by collisions with Shin using drypoint techniques.

Mizin Shin held a final review of students’ bird-safe design projects in her printmaking course Expanded Print Media. Richard Fadok offered feedback.

Smash the Crash attended Bird of Prey Days, an annual event run by Braddock Bay Raptor Research. Richard Fadok gave a lecture about the initiative; María Fernanda Lizarazo made a poster; Mark Shih designed a brochure to give out; and William Jiang, Natthavee Kunathai, & Woochan Seo explained our work.

Brandon Molina shared data from our research at the University of Rochester’s Undergraduate Research Exposition.

Mizin Shin and Richard Fadok curated an exhibition in the hallway of Rush Rhees Library featuring bird-safe designs created by students in her course Expanded Print Media. It will be on display through November 2025.

Brandon Molina led a bird walk around the University of Rochester’s River Campus, introducing participants to the bird species that can be sighted near the Genesee River and the threats posed to them by buildings.

Our Spring 2025 building monitoring study at the University of Rochester began.

Mizin Shin held a mid-semester review of student bird-safe design projects in Expanded Print Media. Richard Fadok offered feedback.

Richard Fadok and Mizin Shin received a Humanities Project grant from the University of Rochester’s Humanities Center to invite the artist Holly Greenberg to campus for a public arts workshop.

Smash the Crash inspired the Sage Art Center to dedicate the theme of Sage Fest, an annual arts festival, to birds.

Smash the Crash presented findings from their Fall 2024 building monitoring study at the University of Rochester data to University Facilities and Services. They recommended several building retrofits and changes to the official design standards, which the team agreed to adopt.

Richard Fadok gave an invited lecture at the State University of New York’s School of Environmental Science and Forestry. His lecture focused on Smash the Crash.

Richard Fadok gave an invited lecture at the Georgia Gosnell Seminar Series in the College of Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology about Smash the Crash.

Richard Fadok, Brandon Molina, and Drew Wang gave a lecture about bird-window collisions and bird-safe design to students in Expanded Print Media.

Mizin Shin taught a printmaking course at the University of Rochester. This course was centered on the creation of bird-safe window film designs. They will be installed around the Sage Art Center.

Daniel McDermott and Mark Shih developed a digital platform for mapping and visualizing bird-window collisions using ArcGIS.

Our Fall 2024 building monitoring study at the University of Rochester concluded after discovering 58 fatal collisions in 7 weeks.

Alicia Persaud wrote an article for the University of Rochester student newspaper about our initiative.

Our Fall 2024 building monitoring study at the University of Rochester began.

Our initiative was launched.

Richard Fadok was interviewed by a reporter at the Democrat & Chronicle for an article on bird-window collisions.

Richard Fadok was interviewed by CTV London for a feature about bird-window collisions in Ontario, Canada.