Dear CAS colleagues, There may be fewer people physically on campus this semester due to COVD-19, but progress and news from our faculty, staff, students and alumni isn't slowing down. Listen to the latest Pokes PodCAS, read about CAS accomplishments, watch an alum sing on the national stage, discover what's going on in the Department of Geography and keep up with us on your favorite social media platform. Links to all of these below. If you have news to share about your team or department, be sure to send it our way via the Faculty News Submission form. Go Pokes! Jacob Longan Coordinator of Communications and Marketing, CAS Outreach |
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Building on our culture of care
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Dean Glen Krutz sent out an email last week inviting faculty, staff, grad students and student employees to participate in new OSU-specific mental health training. Here are those instructions again—it only takes about 20 minutes! Full-time Faculty and Staff | 1. | Log in to talent.okstate.edu, using your O-key credentials. | | 2. | Type "Campus Mental Health Training Video" in the search box | | 3. | Select the correct module from the list | | 4. | Select "Launch" to start your module |
Part-time Faculty or Staff, Student Employees and Graduate Assistants Follow this link to access the training: https://rise.articulate.com/share/aQrRmOC6XSJd9_aG9AXSHCh9qxQQ-NAM |
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Psychology professor wins inaugural award for inclusive excellence
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Psychology professor Dr. LaRicka R. Wingate was named the first recipient of OSU’s Dr. Patricia A. Bell Inclusive Excellence Faculty Award, which honors the legacy of scholar, researcher, administrator and OSU’s first African American department head, Dr. Bell. The award recognizes a current faculty member's exceptional accomplishments and furthering of the university’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. |
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New Pokes PodCAS with alumna Rev. Dr. Lori Walke
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Lori Allen Walke has no shortage of degrees, earning a bachelor's in political science and a master’s in health care administration from OSU before going on to get a law degree, a Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry. She joined us to talk about lessons she learned at OSU, what it’s like being married to a politician and how the final seconds of her OSU basketball career became one of the best feel-good moments in the history of Gallagher-Iba Arena. |
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Pre-med student connects with others through service
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OSU senior Zane Pedersen has spent his whole life in Oklahoma and hopes to attend medical school in state starting next fall. He is an honors student majoring in physiology with a pre-med focus and a psychology minor. He has an impressive list of accolades and has held leadership positions in multiple organizations across campus and in his fraternity. One of his favorite groups? Into the Streets. |
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ICYMI: CAS News Highlights
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Here are some noteworthy headlines you may have missed over the past couple weeks from the world of CAS. | • | Studio art major Shyanne Dickey's piece, "Reigning Black Women Farmers" (pictured) won the Celebrating Black Lives Art Contest on January 20, which was part of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events hosted by OSU. Brynn Garter, a freshman in the graphic design program, placed second. You can see their winning artwork in the Orange Wall Art Gallery in the Student Union basement. |
| • | Garth Brooks (Advertising '84) sang "Amazing Grace" at the presidential inauguration on January 20, complete with a hat tip to the incoming president and a hug for a former one. |
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Faculty Scholar Spotlight: Carlos E. Cordova, Department of Geography
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During his almost 24 years in the Department of Geography, Dr. Carlos E. Cordova has conducted research in eight countries on four continents. In collaboration with archaeologists, geologists, and biologists, Cordova has focused his research on understanding the environmental past of humankind. At the center of his research is climate change that occurred in the prehistoric and historic past. |
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Many find it surprising that researchers like Cordova study climates of the past, when the threat of climate change is today and in the future. However, Cordova says, “Our understanding of past droughts, floods, storms, and cold and warm periods help us reconstruct the long-term trends and cycles of climate change and inform climate models. Furthermore, by studying past climates we can learn more about climatic changes without the strong influence of human activity that we have today, so that we can discern what is caused by humans and what is not.” Cordova brings this view to his course Climate Change: Past, Present and Future, which he teaches at upper-division and graduate levels. In particular, Cordova studies soils and sediments from lakes and rivers, from which he obtains a variety of data. In his laboratory, he extracts from the sediments microscopic particles such as pollen, spores, silica fragments of grasses, and fragments of charcoal. They can provide information about climate, as well as wildfires, incidence of large animals, and human disturbance of ecosystems. He contributes this information to global databases that are the source of global climate and environmental models. |
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