|
|
|
|
Friday, July 29, 2005 (128 reads)
Recent OSU graduates will soon be receiving their membership cards in the mail. To learn about the benefits you receive as an Alumni Association member visit the http://www.orangeconnection.org/memberservices.htm"Member Benefits" page. Also, if your contact or personal information has changed since you registered in May, please call our office at 800-433-4678 and update your information.
Read More |
|
Friday, July 29, 2005 (109 reads)
Stillwater and area elementary schools will benefit this year from a “Christmas in July” project started by the Oklahoma State University College of Education Staff Action Team.
The team selected “Pennies for Education” and collecting school supplies as this year’s project. This project was chosen because it would reflect on education and support the community.
“We agreed that at the end of the year, everyone feels generous. We wanted to pick a project that we could focus on during the middle of the year to keep the generosity flowing," said Pam Porter, College of Education staff assistant and chair of the team.
Each team member has an office container in which people can drop any loose change or paper money, with the proceeds to be used for schools’ field trips, fees or supplies.
Projects being undertaken with the money collected will be handled on a first-come basis, Porter said. Westwood Elementary School, for example, contacted the group asking for help with a project, and the Action Group is now working toward collecting $301 to purchase reading materials for the school’s fifth graders.
“Because of limited funds that schools have available, we feel this is a helpful and worthwhile project,” said Jill Denny, chair of the “Pennies for Education” committee. “We have had a wonderful turnout, and we are still collecting.”
Members are also collecting school supplies, ranging from crayons to Kleenex, which will be donated to the schools at the beginning of the semester.
Team members include chairman Jill Denny, Grad Studies and Research; Jennifer Ahlert, National Clearinghouse for Rehabilitation Training Materials; Kathy Boyer, Professional Education; Darlene Croci, NASA; Sue Goad, Education Outreach; Marty Howard, School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership; Pat Karcher, School of Educational Studies; Marta Kochenower, School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology; Virginia Lowry, Stillwater Flight Center; Jackie Molloy, Education Technology; Jennifer Walling, Student Services; and Pamela Porter, Education Dean’s office
For more information, contact Porter at 744-8034 or Denny at 744-8976.
Photo caption: Ready to collect pennies and school supplies for Stillwater and area elementary schools are COE Staff Action team members, front, Jill Denny and Marty Howard, and back, Jennifer Walling, Pam Porter, Pat Karcher and Sue Goad.
Read More |
|
Friday, July 29, 2005 (133 reads)
Members of the Oklahoma State football and soccer teams will be available for autographs on Saturday, August 6 as part of OSU's fifth Fall Sports Fan Appreciation Day. Coaches and players from both teams will be available from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. with doors opening at noon.
The event, held on the upper level concourse of the OSU Athletics Center, will allow fans the opportunity to interact with football and soccer student-athletes. The OSU Authentic Store will also be open on the south side of Boone Pickens Stadium for fans to purchase OSU clothing and memorabilia. All the official Nike sideline and coaches apparel should be available for Fan Appreciation Day.
Fans are asked to limit their items to be autographed to one per person. Pictures with the student-athletes will not be allowed due to time constraints. Parking will be available in the student lots south of Boone Pickens Stadium and admission is free to the public. Complimentary drinks will be provided courtesy of Dr. Pepper. OSU football and soccer posters and schedule cards will also be available for fans at the event.
Additional information as well as a detailed map of the event and player locations will be available on okstate.com on Monday, August 1st so fans can have a more enjoyable experience with better traffic flow.
Read More |
|
Friday, July 29, 2005 (111 reads)
The OSU Alumni Association office will be in the process of moving to the new ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center Monday, August 1st through Wednesday, Augsust 3rd.
There may be times throughout the move when we are unable to answer the phone or serve you in an immediate fashion. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and will respond as soon as possible.
Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 (116 reads)
NFL training camps are set to begin the week of July 25 and there are several former Cowboy Football players set to compete for positions and playing time. Rookies and veterans officially report at different times for each team. Four Cowboys from last seasons MasterCard Alamo Bowl team will be participating in training camps. Second-round draft pick, Darrent Williams, will be in Englewood, Colorado for the Denver Broncos training camp which begins July 29th. Third-round pick, Vernand Morency, will be at the Houston Texans practice facility on July 29th. Billy Bajema, a seventh-round pick by the San Francisco 49ers, will be reporting on July 29th in Santa Clara, California. Free agent Cole Farden will also be in Santa Clara working out with the 49ers.
Other former Cowboys in NFL training camps are Rashaun Woods, Tatum Bell, Antonio Smith, Kevin Williams, Marcellus Rivers, R.W. McQuarters, Juqua Thomas, Kenyatta Wright, Keith Burns and Jamal Williams.
Read More |
|
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 (85 reads)
Oklahoma State University athletics are well represented in the "Best of Oklahoma" voting section of ESPN SportsCenter's campaign to visit all 50 states in 50 days. Oklahoma State football, men's basketball and wrestling all get credit for being a part of some of the best in the state of Oklahoma. For 50 days, beginning this Sunday July 17 with Massachusetts and wrapping up with Wisconsin on Sep. 4, SportsCenter will celebrate the sporting culture and heritage of each state. Each SportsCenter Across America segment will originate from a mobile SportsCenter set with an anchor and a live audience at a sporting event unique to the state. These daily segments will include event action, historical notes, factoids and vignettes about each state's contribution to the national sports scene, as well as "Best" lists compiled from ESPN research and ESPN.com voters, and several long-form features. SportsCenter will travel 70,850 miles to 50 sporting events in 50 states in 50 days. Sportscenter will visit the state of Oklahoma on Friday, September 2nd at the prison rodeo in McAlester the night before the Cowboy Football team opens the season in Boone Pickens Stadium against Montana State.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/fiftyfifty/polling?DB_OEM_ID=200&event_id=1450"Click here to vote for Oklahoma State University to be Best in Oklahoma!"
Read More |
|
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 (115 reads)
The Cowboy Football program will be highlighted on Fox Sports Net Southwest this week on a variety of Big 12 Conference programming. The Big 12 Media Blitz will air on Tuesday, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. CST. The show will recap all the action from the Big 12 Media Days down in Houston, Texas that occurred last week. The Big 12 Spring Camping Tour, which includes the Cowboys along with Oklahoma and Texas Tech will air on Wednesday, July 27th at 9:30 p.m. CST and again on Thursday, July 28th at 1:00 p.m. CST. This show will highlight the spring practice season on each campus. Finally, the Big 12 Showcase will air on Friday, July 29th at 6:30 p.m. CST and on Saturday, July 30th at 11:00 a.m. CST. This weeks Big 12 Showcase will recap the Big 12 Media Days in Houston and will feature a behind-the-scenes look at head coach Mike Gundy.
Cowboy Football fans that do not have access to Fox Sports Southwest or want to listen to head coach Mike Gundy's media day quotes in their entirety can do so on the official Big 12 website by clicking http://www.big12sports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/05-media-day.html"here".
Big 12 Showcase Affiliates:
FSN Midwest - Fridays, 2:30 PM (CT); Saturdays, 11:00 AM (CT)
FSN Rocky Mountain - Fridays, 2:30 PM (MT); Saturdays, 8:30 AM (MT)
FSN Southwest - Fridays, 6:30 PM (CT); Saturdays, 11:00 AM (CT)
Read More |
|
Monday, July 18, 2005 (109 reads)
The William S. Spears School of Business at OSU brings distance learning graduate business degrees to working professionals looking for upward mobility.
Instead of physically at tending class, participants will receive the live, in-class lecture captured in a digital format, unlike traditional text-based degree programs. This allows members of the workforce to attend class through corporate travel and company relocation. The portability of academic degrees has become a necessity in today’s fast-paced business environment.
Three complete degrees are available via distance learning: Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Management Information, and Master of Science in Telecommunications Management.
For additional information about the distance learning program, please contact the http://spears.okstate.edu/cepd/"Center for Executive and Professional Development" in the Spears School of Business.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 18, 2005 (143 reads)
OSU Alumni Association, working with AHI International Corporation – better known as Alumni Holidays, is providing alumni and friends the opportunity to travel independently on all AHI programs and dates. AHI, an alumni partner for over 40 years has been a leader in the creation and operation of exclusive and unique travel programs for travelers. AHI is dedicated to providing exclusive, one-of-a kind travel opportunities and is committed to innovations, creativity and the highest level of service and quality in all its travel offerings.
Please visit http://www.ahitravel.com/okst"www.ahitravel.com/okst" for more details and complete descriptions of all the travel opportunities available to you.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 18, 2005 (108 reads)
Senior third baseman Rusty Ryal (Perry, Okla.) and junior pitcher Adam Daniels (North Vancouver, B.C.) were both selected on the first day of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft.
Ryal (.300, 7 HR, 43 RBI) was selected with the first pick of the 14th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks, while Daniels (7-3, 4.20 ERA) was the last pick of the 15th round by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Two more Cowboys were picked in the second day of the draft. Junior pitcher Thomas Cowley (Fenton, Mo.) was picked by the Cleveland Indians in the 26th round and senior pitcher DeWayne Carver (Newberry, Fla.) was selected in the 40th round by the Indians.
Cowley led the team with a 10-5 record and 3.04 ERA, while Carver sat out the season while rehabbing an injury.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 18, 2005 (116 reads)
Oklahoma State University athletics are well represented in the "Best of Oklahoma" voting section of ESPN SportsCenter's campaign to visit all 50 states in 50 days. Oklahoma State football, men's basketball and wrestling all get credit for being a part of some of the best in the state of Oklahoma. For 50 days, beginning this Sunday July 17 with Massachusetts and wrapping up with Wisconsin on Sep. 4, SportsCenter will celebrate the sporting culture and heritage of each state. Each SportsCenter Across America segment will originate from a mobile SportsCenter set with an anchor and a live audience at a sporting event unique to the state. These daily segments will include event action, historical notes, factoids and vignettes about each state's contribution to the national sports scene, as well as "Best" lists compiled from ESPN research and ESPN.com voters, and several long-form features. SportsCenter will travel 70,850 miles to 50 sporting events in 50 states in 50 days. Sportscenter will visit the state of Oklahoma on Friday, September 2nd at the prison rodeo in McAlester the night before the Cowboy Football team opens the season in Boone Pickens Stadium against Montana State.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/fiftyfifty/polling?DB_OEM_ID=200&event_id=1450"Click here to vote for Oklahoma State University to be Best in Oklahoma!"
Read More |
|
Grandparent University 2006
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 (86 reads)
Registration for GPU 2006 is currently unavailable. Keep checking www.orangeconnection.org for more information.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 11, 2005 (101 reads)
Stillwater’s annual Krazy Daze will take place July 14-17 throughout the town. Krazy Daze participants offer extreme discounts to shoppers. Come back to Stillwater to enjoy loads of bargain shopping and sales. Downtown Stillwater is where the main event takes place, but stores across town will be participating in the annual sale event. So come back and load up on orange while it’s cheap and visit www.orangeconnection.com, where alumni members receive $5 off every day.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 11, 2005 (119 reads)
Registration is underway for the Vernon Grant Memorial Golf Tournament to be held on July 16 at 8 a.m. at Cimarron National Golf Course in Guthrie.
The event is being conducted in honor of the Cowboy football player who was killed in an automobile accident last May and is sponsored by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity's Omicron Lambda Chapter.
Trophies and prizes will be given to the first-, second- and third-place teams as well as the longest drive and closest to the pin winners. Proceeds from the tournament will be awarded to high school seniors accepted to the university or college of their choice.
For more information, contact Tevin Williams, Sr. at 405-269-6720 or 405-372-1434.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 11, 2005 (125 reads)
As the aftermath of the deadly Asian tsunami dragged on, a team of Oklahoma State University professors and graduate students visited a hard-hit Indian district to mark the locations of mass graves and examine how government officials and citizens coped with a disaster that most of us cannot imagine.
Professors Brenda Phillips, David Neal and Tom Wikle, joined graduate research assistants Shireen Hyrapiet and Aswin Subanthore in Chennai, India, the state capital of the Tamil Nadu region and in Nagapattinam, where the tsunami claimed more than 6,000 of the total 10,000 human lives lost in India. The primary purpose was to determine how local authorities and citizens deal with mass casualties.
Lead investigator Phillips, Neal and Hyrapiet are in OSU’s Fire and Emergency Management Program, which produces managers and administrators for the fire services and emergency management organizations.
Wikle and Subanthore are in OSU’s Geography Department. Wikle, who is also associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, used GPS equipment to record the sites of mass graves where the victims were buried.
Neal has studied natural and other disasters for more than 30 years, including the San Francisco earthquake and Hurricane Andrew. Both were major disasters, but Neal said the tsunami was an incomparable event.
“You cannot plan for something on that scale,” Neal said. “Nobody does. Most disasters have less than 100 victims, so it is impossible to be prepared for something that big. I think our preliminary finding is that flexibility is the most crucial component in dealing with such disasters. People and organizations have to adjust the plan as they go along. This sounds unusual, but you have to plan to be spontaneous.”
He said Indian officials faced the unimaginable tasks of identifying and burying 10,000 victims within three days after the tsunami. As bodies decomposed, they became harder and harder to identify. Officials took as many photos as possible, then began burying the victims. Most were Hindus, a religion which advocates cremation to dispose of bodies. The sheer number of victims ruled out this option.
Wikle said most of the mass graves were not marked in any way. He described one that had PVC pipe embedded in the ground, not so much as a marker, but a way to allow ventilation into the grave to aid in decomposition of the bodies.
“It’s important to the victims’ families and to future generations that these sites be recorded and available in a permanent archive,” he said.
Subanthore, who is from the region, was charged with interviewing people at all different levels, from regular citizens to top officials. He said a common theme throughout his research was the remarkable resiliency of the Indian people.
“They depend on the ocean for their livelihood and their income, so the survivors got back to work, trying to rebuild their lives,” he said. “They seem to be sustained by a combination of their spiritual beliefs and the fact that their family roots in these areas often go back for centuries. They have a tremendous sense of place, and they look at the ocean as a symbol of the divine. The ocean brought death, but it also brings life.”
Neal agrees, saying that mass disasters do not defeat people. “Societies do not collapse,” he says. “Life goes on because it has to.”
The tsunami project was funded by the National Science Foundation, with additional assistance from the Armenian Church of Calcutta, the OSU Dean of Arts & Sciences and the OSU School of International Studies.
Neal and Wikle hope to find additional funding to return to India and other locations to continue their research. They say the real value of these experiences is the knowledge gained by OSU’s graduate students.
“They learned an incredible amount, and they will be the teachers of the next generations,” Neal said.
The photo shows trees that were planted over the graves of tsunami victims in the District of Nagapattinam, India.
Read More |
|
Monday, July 11, 2005 (123 reads)
Oklahoma Public Radio KOSU (91.7 & 107.5 FM)is a recipient of one of the most prestigious broadcast journalism awards in the country, the Edward R. Murrow Award. KOSU is one of seventy-two recipients of this year's Award, chosen from a pool of 3,390 submissions nationwide. Since 1971, the Edward R. Murrow Awards have been presented annually by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the world's largest professional organization dedicated exclusively to electronic journalism.
KOSU Program Director Ted Riley won the national honor for a series of radio stories he produced focusing on the problems and possible solutions at the nation's largest EPA Superfund site, Tar Creek, located in Northeastern Oklahoma.
"KOSU first reported on the Tar Creek situation four years ago. At the time, not much was being done at either the state or federal level to clean up the environmentally tainted 40-square-mile area or to help those affected by the environmental and health hazards associated with Tar Creek," said Riley. "Since then, the state has made several efforts to help the residents, and to an extent, so has the federal government. But despite those efforts, after nearly a quarter of a century, Tar Creek still remains on the Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List. That's what these stories were about."
Under the leadership of KOSU General Manager Craig Beeby, KOSU has earned 235 national, regional, and state honors for journalism excellence, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards, two Scripps-Howard Journalism Awards, and the broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, the duPont-Columbia Award.
"What an exciting honor for KOSU during our 50th anniversary," said Beeby. "This top quality award is reflective of our wonderful audience and is one of the many exciting things that make up the tradition of the past fifty years of KOSU excellence. It couldn't have happened at a better time."
KOSU Program Director Ted Riley will receive the Edward R. Murrow Award in New York City this October.
All Times - Central Time
Programs are subject to change without notice.
Listen to KOSU live at 91.7 in central Oklahoma, 107.5 in northeast Oklahoma, or at www.kosu.org.
Read More |
|
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 (105 reads)
(OKLAHOMA CITY) – The OSU-Oklahoma City Technology Education Center is offering several non-credit classes in child development and car seat safety.
Child development courses are $15 each and will be held Mondays, July 11 though August 22, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Topics are as follows:
• “What to Do When Time-Out Doesn’t Work” - July 11
• “Encouragement vs. Praise” - July 18
• “Latchkey Programs” - July 25
• “Home Schooling” - August 8
• “What is Developmentally Appropriate? (Birth - 3 years)” - August 15
• “What is Developmentally Appropriate? (3 - 5 years)” - August 22
Training in the proper use of child restraints is being offered monthly on Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cost is $20 and classes are scheduled July 23, August 27, September 24, October 29, November 19 and December 17.
This course addresses when to turn a baby to a forward-facing position, what to do if a car seat will not stay tight within a vehicle, the function and placement of all straps, the LATCH system and how to use it as well as when a child can ride without a booster seat.
All courses are open to the public and will be held on the OSU-OKC campus, 900 N. Portland. Course hours can contribute to the 40 clock hours required by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Division of Child Care for licensure in the director training and STAR training programs.
Space is limited and registration deadline is one week prior to each course. For more information contact Sharlene Bear at (405) 945-3373 or sbear@osuokc.edu.
Read More |
|
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 (119 reads)
Oklahoma State heavyweight Steve Mocco continues to add to his outstanding junior season as he was nominated for a 2005 ESPY Award in the category of Best Male College Athlete.
Mocco dominated on the mat posting a perfect 37-0 record with 17 pins on his way to winning his second NCAA championship. The year culminated with Mocco being presented the Dan Hodge Trophy, which is considered the Heisman Trophy of wrestling.
Fans select the winners by voting online at http://espn.go.com/espy2005/index.html and select Nominees to vote for Best Male College Athlete. Voting begins June 24 and ends on July 8.
The ESPY Awards will air on ESPN on July 17 at 8 p.m. at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
Read More |
|
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 (125 reads)
Pistol Pete, the beloved mascot of Oklahoma State Athletics, was asked to be a part of the "Mascot Mania" exhibit at the NCAA Hall of Champions located at the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. The exhibit, which highlights the best mascots in the country, will be on display through September 24th. The Hall of Champions exhibit is located in downtown Indianapolis in the White River State Park. Tour hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Museum prices are $3.00 for seniors and adults, $2.00 for students and free to children five and under. Large groups are welcome at a discounted price. Call 800-735-NCAA for more information on the "Mascot Mania" exhibit at the NCAA Hall of Champions.
Visit the http://www.ncaa.org/hall_of_champions/global/home.htm?DB_OEM_ID=200&reason=0"NCAA Hall of Champions" Web site for more information.
Read More |
|
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 (106 reads)
Cowboy Basketball standout http://www.nmnathletics.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=200&PALBID=1732&DB_OEM_ID=200"Joey Graham" was selected as the 16th pick in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors last week in New York City. Graham, 6-foot-7, 225 pounds, was first-team All-Big 12 last season after averaging career bests of 17.7 points and 6.2 rebounds in 33 games. He shot .529 from the field and led the conference in free throw percentage at .887. He scored 20 or more points 14 times, including a season-high 27 versus Missouri. He led OSU with 25 points versus Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament en route to capturing MVP honors.
As a junior, Graham averaged 12.4 points and 5.2 rebounds. He scored 20 or more points five times, including a career-best 36-point effort versus Nebraska. He helped lead the Cowboys to the Final Four where he had 17 points and 10 rebounds in the semifinals loss to Georgia Tech. Joey was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year by the league coaches. He was also named third-team All-Big 12 by Big 12 coaches, and honorable mention all-conference by the Associated Press. He was named to the all-newcomer squad by media that regularly covered the league, and was named to the all-tournament team at the East Rutherford Regional.
Graham split his four-year collegiate career between Oklahoma State and Central Florida. He averaged 15.0 points and 6.0 rebounds in two seasons at OSU and 10.8 points and 4.7 rebounds in two campaigns at Central Florida.
Read More |
|
 |
|
|
Official Web site of the OSU Alumni Association.
Oklahoma State University and all OSU logos and related items copyright 2002 Oklahoma State
University. This site designed and maintained by the Internet Association Corporation. All rights reserved.
 Denotes
a members-only area of the site.
Login
|
|
|