Dear CAS colleagues, You already give your all as OSU faculty and staff (and we couldn't be more proud!), but coming up on April 6 and 7, there's another way to increase your impact on the College of Arts and Sciences. The OSU Foundation will be hosting Give Orange — 1,890 minutes of fundraising that celebrates the power of philanthropy and Oklahoma State. Learn more about the event here. And whether or not you're able to donate, consider sharing about #GiveOrange on social media to spread the word! Thanks for all that you do. Go Pokes! Jacob Longan Coordinator of Communications and Marketing, CAS Outreach |
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Dean Krutz takes a big leap with the Black Daggers and OSU's Army ROTC
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On March 14, CAS Dean Glen Krutz went skydiving with U.S. Army Special Operations Command Black Daggers and OSU's Army ROTC in Cushing, Oklahoma. Check out his jump, his reaction, and which alumna he invited along for the ride. |
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Biology Ph.D student chosen for ESA Graduate Student Policy Award cohort
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Emily Geest, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology, is one of just 23 selected for the Ecological Society of America's Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award 2021 cohort. The award will give Geest the chance to receive policy and communication training before meeting with lawmakers. Learn more about Emily, her research and which CAS faculty member's lab she's a part of by clicking the link below. |
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Ethics Club makes it to quarterfinals at national competition
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OSU's Ethics Bowl Team competed in the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics’ (APPE) Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on Feb. 26 and 27, making it to the quarterfinals. "We certainly are in good company," said Department of Philosophy Head Dr. Scott Gelfand. "These were the top eight teams in the whole United States!" Follow the link below to find out which prestigious schools OSU went up against. |
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ICYMI: CAS News Highlights
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With everything going on at OSU, it's easy to miss some headlines. Here are some from the past few weeks. | • | The OSU Alumni Association announced their 2020-21 Outstanding Seniors earlier this month and six of 22 are CAS majors (pictured). We can't say we're surprised—we have the best faculty teaching the best students. |
| • | The show must go on, despite social distancing protocols, and the Department of Theatre is delivering. See the complete lineup of shows happening this spring, including "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]" happening this Friday through Sunday. |
| • | President Burns Hargis issued a statement denouncing racially motivated attacks "against Asian individuals and Asian Americans across our nation." Read the complete text here. |
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We shared these Zoom backgrounds in our last newsletter, but they're worth another look. Download one (or all!) of them from our CAS Photo Gallery. |
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Faculty Scholar Spotlight: Michael Long, Department of Sociology
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For the past 10 years, Department of Sociology professor Dr. Michael Long has studied the relationship between capitalism and the natural environment, paying particular attention to how inequalities associated with capitalism have contributed to environmental degradation throughout the world. Some of his recent work in this area has focused on risk perceptions and stress associated with hydraulic fracturing, the relationship between climate change and crime, and the killing of indigenous environmental activists. |
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More recently, Long has conducted basic and applied research in the area of food insecurity. During his 3.5-year tenure as a faculty member at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom (2014-2018), Long began working on understanding and helping to develop strategies to alleviate food insecurity, in particular a phenomenon that has become known in the UK as "holiday hunger." Holiday hunger is summertime household food insecurity that occurs because children from less well-off families are unable to receive free school meals during the summer. For households on a strict budget, the lack of free school lunches (and often breakfasts) can be devastating as parents and caregivers have to find extra food money in already stretched budgets. Long and his colleagues' research in this area has informed discussions of holiday hunger in UK Parliament and other policy making venues. Currently, Long is working with other colleagues in the OSU Department of Sociology who focus on these and related areas of inequality and insecurity research to build the Department’s strengths in these fields of scholarship. |
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