Dear CAS Faculty and Staff, The semester is in full swing, but many things remain uncertain. We appreciate all of your hard work and cooperation thus far, and we are aware that many of you still have questions about a variety of things regarding the ongoing pandemic. In response, CAS has developed a Canvas course, “CAS Instructor Resources-Covid,” for which all instructors will receive invitations directly from Canvas. This course contains current guidance, templates and links to key resources. We will continually update this course to reflect the latest guidance from the University on how to respond to the covid situation. Our goal is that the information you need is easily accessible when you need it, without searching for pages or previous emails. We will continue to add more in the coming days and weeks. In addition, we need to have a sense of how courses are modifying when there is a positive Covid case in the class. We have emailed department heads to ask instructors to complete a survey (also via this Qualtrics link) to inform the College and the University of your choices for temporarily modifying delivery for two weeks, per the three options laid out by the Provost last Friday. If you have already modified a course delivery due to a positive case in that class, we ask you to complete this by Friday. Then update if more courses are modified in the days and weeks ahead. Thank you for helping us with the course updates and let us know how we can make the Canvas course more useful for you. We would also like to remind you that Dean Glen Krutz will hold a virtual town hall this afternoon to address people's questions and provide updates on the semester. The town hall will be facilitated by Associate Dean Rebecca Brienen, and it will take place from 3-4 p.m. via Zoom. You can join the town hall using this Zoom link or by using the Meeting ID (978 5977 6551) and Passcode (352461). We encourage you to join the town hall and hope that it will provide some clarity. Thank you, Associate Dean Andrew Doust & Assistant Dean Amy Martindale |
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OSU math professor receives competitive $10,000 research grant
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Dr. Xu Zhang received one of the competitive Oak Ridge Associated Universities research grants worth $10,000 this summer. Zhang, a mathematics professor who specializes in numerical analysis, received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for his research proposal on using unfitted mesh to solve three-dimensional interface problems. The award provides recipients $5,000 and OSU will match the award with another $5,000, making Zhang’s total prize worth $10,000. |
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Sportswriters across the country trace their beginnings to OSU
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The School of Media and Strategic Communication's sports media program continues to develop talented journalists, as well as public relations professionals, with many alumni going on to prominent roles for organizations like the Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Rockets. Dr. Craig Freeman, director of SMSC, said OSU’s success is built on student work ethic and faculty members’ attention to detail. |
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OSU's President Shrum discusses her vision for the university
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Dr. Kayse Shrum is ready to hit the ground running as Oklahoma State University’s 19th president. Just prior to her taking office, STATE magazine sat down with Shrum at her ranch in Coweta, Oklahoma, to discuss her vision for OSU’s future, what it means to be the first female president and how she aims to elevate the university’s commitment to the land-grant mission and serve all OSU institutions and the state of Oklahoma. |
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ICYMI: CAS News Highlights
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Here are a few things from CAS that you may have missed over the past few weeks. If we forgot something, let us know! | • | Chemistry professor Allen Apblett's technology company, AiroTect, has developed a new personal air-sampling wearable badge capable of detecting over 100 volatile organic compounds in the air. You can read more about it in the World Industrial Reporter. |
| • | OSU launched a new campaign to encourage students, staff and faculty to Mask Up amid rising cases and the COVID-19 delta variant. |
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Department Spotlight: The Ethics Club, Philosophy
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The Ethics Club was founded with the hope that a diverse array of students could disagree on issues while still understanding arguments of those who reason differently. In fact, we wanted club members to develop friendships and meaningful relationships with others who think differently. The primary vehicle by which we engage in these ethical discussions is by training and competing in Ethics Bowls — team debate-style tournaments. Our club members have flourished by participating in these competitions. We’ve had extremely shy and uncertain students develop into polished public speakers. We’ve won a regional tournament, qualified for nationals twice, and most recently reached the quarterfinals of the National Championship Bowl (top 8 in the nation for 2021). The students gain confidence not only in their oration skills, but they become better thinkers who can evaluate different opinions without becoming overly angry or defensive. Perhaps most importantly, we’ve also been fortunate enough to have members who form genuine and lasting friendships. They bond over their passion for discussing difficult topics, and they respect and admire each other—even when they strongly disagree on an issue. In Spring 2021, OSU’s Department of Philosophy hosted the Biomedical Ethics Bowl as a virtual event. The competition was a huge undertaking but turned out to be an amazing success. We received praise from coaches and competitors, with OSU taking fourth place in the Bowl. We are excited for the future of the Ethics Club and its continued growth. —Daniel Trippett, Ethics Club Advisor |
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