College of Allied Health dedication ceremony
A dedication for the recently completed 114,00-square-foot University of Oklahoma College of Allied Health will occur Sept. 18 at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.
The event will be at 2:30 p.m. on the Health Sciences Center campus, 1200 N. Stonewall Ave. Speakers will include OU President David Boren, Joseph Ferretti, senior vice president and provost of the Health Sciences Center, Kevin Rudeen, College of Allied Health dean, and Thomas Lemke, College of Allied Health Student Body president.
The building includes state-of-the-art laboratories, distance learning and computer facilities, clinical research space, classrooms, study areas and office space, as stated in a press release.
The College of Allied Health is the largest single provider of allied health professionals in Oklahoma, with programs in physical and occupational therapy, communication sciences and disorders, medical imaging and radiation sciences, and nutrition and allied health sciences.
-Meredith Moriak/The Daily
College of Continuing Education to host water conservation conference
The University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education will host the first International WaTER Conference and WaTER prize award ceremony this fall.
Water Technologies for Emerging Regions, WaTER, is a group of students and faculty who work and research to solve drinking water and sanitation problems in developing countries.
In October 2008, Stephen P. Luby, Ph.D., who has worked for the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh was awarded the WaTER prize to celebrate the contributions he has made to clean water development. He will be given a cash prize of $25,000 in which half of that money will be given to a WaTER-related non-profit organization of his choice.
The conference, including guest speakers and sessions relevant to drinking water and sanitation will be Oct. 26-27, with a post-conference workshop Oct. 28 on the OU campus. It will bring together several groups responding to the UN Millennium Development Goals focusing on water and sanitation problems in developing areas and small villages.
For more information about the WaTER conference or award ceremony visit water.ou.edu.
-Hannah Rieger/The Daily
Supreme Court Justice comes for centennial celebration
Andrew Coats, dean of the OU College of Law, announced Thursday Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts will visit Norman this fall as part of the school’s centennial celebration.
About 150 students will be invited to dinner with Kennedy on Oct. 1 at the Embassy Suites and Roberts will visit Norman on Nov. 17, Coats told the Student Bar Association.
“It’s a big deal,” Coats said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a Chief Justice [of the United States Supreme Court] come to Oklahoma.”
Stanley Evans, assistant dean of the college, informed students in attendance about a town-hall meeting scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sept. 25. He said the meeting will fulfill an OU requirement for each college to discuss tuition and fees.
-Meredith Moriak/The Daily
College professor to lecture on counterinsurgency
A Naval War College professor and author of highly regarded works on counter-insurgency will hold a public lecture at OU early next week.
The talk, titled “Reflections of a Pachyderm: A Life in Counterinsurgency,” will be centered around John D. Waghelstein’s work in the military as a commander in Central America and his experience in dealing with insurgents.
The event will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Nielsen Hall and is sponsored by the OU School of International and Area Studies. It is the first of many in a series of lectures held by OU professor John T. Fishel as part of his Small Wars and Conflict Presidential Dream Course.
-Spencer Popp/The Daily
OUr Earth partners with Norman Fair Trade
OUr Earth, a student-lead campus organization that aims to educate the OU community about a variety of environmental issues, will hold a group meeting Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. in the President’s Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.
The group is gearing up for the Norman Fair Trade meeting where members hope to discuss opportunities to partner with NFT and other organizations that might have similar environmentally friendly goals.
OUr Earth president Chris Applegate said that this partnership will hopefully expand fair trade on campus and aid in the organization’s continued recycling, money and energy-saving efforts.
-Breia Brissey/The Daily
State regents focus on financial assistance, smaller colleges
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education met Thursday to discuss the future of higher education in the state.
Though many of the issues mentioned were focused on smaller state colleges and universities, along with focusing on scholarships, grants and high school student performance, OU was mentioned on a few items on the agenda.
OU’s request to grant five honorary degrees during commencement ceremonies in the spring of 2010 was approved.
The Regents also approved of expanding the degree level given to students who study at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center by allowing students the ability to earn a Masters of Science in Biological Psychology and Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Psychology degrees.
In a report reviewed by the Regents, the Health Sciences Center also received about $1.7 million in revenue collected from taxes placed on cigarette and tobacco products during the 2009 fiscal year. Though tobacco taxes brought in a total of about $3.4 million, the funds collected are split between OU and Oklahoma State University’s Center for Health Sciences. OSU received the same amount as OU.
-Ricky Maranon/The Daily
Get your Sooner Safety handbook
The Sooner Safety 2009 handbook is now available online and in print. The book is designed to keep all members of the university community informed about safety and security resources on campus and in the community.
It covers topics such as substance abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment and overall safety. Sooner Safety 2009 contains valuable crime statistics from the University of Oklahoma Police Department, the Norman Police Department, the Athletics Department, and the Division of Student Affairs.
The handbook can be accessed online at http://www.ou.edu/safety.pdf or in print at the Bizzell Memorial Library, the Oklahoma Memorial Union, the Division of Public Affairs in Whitehand Hall, Housing and Food Services in Walker Center, the Office of Human Resources in the Engineering Laboratory, the Physical Plant Complex, and the Visitor Center in Jacobson Hall.
-Melissa Foy/The Daily
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insuladd 2 years, 2 months ago
Wow a supreme court justice! Nice!
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