In this episode, Director of the Writing Center Dr. Anna Sicari discusses how all writers can benefit from using the OSU Writing Center. It serves OSU and the surrounding community, helping communicators understand and practice strategies used by effective writers, including brainstorming, drafting and editing techniques. Check out the PodCAS at the link below!

Dr. Richard Frohock, associate dean of the Honors College and a professor in the department of the Department of English, and Dr. Jami Fullerton, director of academic programs in the School of Global Studies and the Peggy Layman Welch Chair in strategic communications, received Fulbright International Education Administrators grants. As Fulbright recipients, Frohock and Fullerton will share knowledge and foster meaningful connections between OSU and institutions abroad.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Oklahoma State University (OLLI at OSU), in partnership with the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the OSU Michael and Anne Greenwood School of Music and The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, is hosting a special series that will explore jurisprudence, the criminal justice system and recovery through art.

At the seabed of the world’s ocean, tiny, single-celled organisms make shells about the size of a grain of sand and feed on material that rains down from above. It is these tiny creatures, called foraminifera, which drive Dr. Ashley Burkett to collect samples from the seafloor. Dr. Burkett — who joined the Boone Pickens School of Geology in 2018 — has in fact visited the seafloor herself in the deep-sea submersible Alvin (the same one that explored the wreckage of the Titanic), collecting samples of living foraminifera from the ocean floor.