College of Arts and Sciences

Press Releases

2008

Date	Press Release	View Release
May 6	OU Native American Studies Director Named to Steering Committee for Cultural Heritage Rights	View Release
May 6	Mason Receives Outstanding Teaching Award at OU	View Release
April 25	After 50 Years of Teaching, OU's Dr. K to Retire	View Release
March 12	OU Professor Receives Language Award	View Release
March 11	OU/St. Anselm Archaeology Dig in Italy to be Topic of Presentation on Thursday	View Release
Feb. 18	OU's College of Arts and Sciences Names 2008 Distinguished Alumni and Service Recipients	View Release
Feb. 11	Melvin Tolson Jr. to Speak About His Father Prior To Free Screening of “The Great Debaters” at OU	View Release
Jan. 30	OU History Professor Co-authors Encyclopedia of American Jewish History	View Release
Jan. 14	OU's Taylor Receives Award from Geological Society of America	View Release

2007

Date	Press Release	View Release
Dec. 4	$1.5 Million Awarded to OU Researcher For Study of Negative Effects of Golden Algae on Oklahoma Fish	View Release
Oct. 26	OU Professor Receives Teaching Award	View Release
Oct. 10	Celebration Weekend Set for UOBS	View Release
Sept. 11	Mason Recognized for Outstanding Service	View Release
Sept. 11	OU Professor Chosen as President-Elect of Historical Society	View Release
August 27	Watkins Named Director of Native American Studies Program	View Release
August 14	Avant-Garde Filmmaker Receives $40,000 Creativity in Motion Prize	View Release
May 23	German Professor Named Rothaum Award Winner at OU	View Release
May 21	OU Professor Receives Research Excellence Award	View Release
May 21	OU Student Named NExt Generation Nonprofit Leader	View Release
April 20	Homer’s Iliad to be performed by Mark Miner in Ancient Greek	View Release
April 20	Meeting to Discuss Future of Native American and Indigenous Studies to be Held at OU	View Release
March 19	OU Scholarship Honors Heavener Woman	View Release
March 9	OU's College of Arts and Sciences Surpasses Scholarship Goal with Gift from Norman Alumna	View Release
Feb. 19	Dick Lowry Named Distinguished Alumnus of OU's College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 15	Elizabeth Garrett Named Distinguished Alumna of OU's College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 14	GEICO Receives Distinguished Service Award from OU's College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 13	John W. Saunders Jr., Named Distinguished Alumnus of OU's College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 12	Lindy Ritz Named Distinguished Alumna of OU's College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 8	Stillman Lecture at OU to Explore the Role of Religion in Jerusalem	View Release
Feb. 8	Evolution and Biological Conflict Topic of Presentation at OU	View Release
Feb. 7	Latin America Symposium to be Held at OU	View Release
Feb. 7	Judice-Campbell Receives Outstanding Teaching Award OU	View Release
Feb. 7	OU's College of Arts and Sciences Names Distinguished Alumni and Service Recipients	View Release

2006

Date	Press Release	View Release
Dec. 6	OU Professor Testifies Before the U.S. Senate	View Release
Nov. 29	American Justice Topic for Discussion at OU	View Release
Nov. 27	Bell Named Chair of Committee on Research Institutions	View Release
Nov. 15	Nazi Condolence Subject of Research Conducted by OU Professor	View Release
Nov. 15	OU Celebrates30-year Collaboration with Technical Institute of Berlin	View Release
Nov. 8	Ambassador Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont, to visit as part of Dream Course	View Release
Nov. 7	Decisions of Supreme Court Justices Topic of Discussion at OU	View Release
Nov. 6	OU Professors Co-author Book on Native American Sovereignty	View Release
Nov. 3	Director of The Journey of Vaan Nguyen to Visit OU for Film Screening and Discussion	View Release
Nov. 1	Famed Tolkien Scholar to Visit OU as FOCAS* Lecturer	View Release
Oct. 30	OU Professors Discusses Effects of the Holocaust on Modern Jewish Philosophies	View Release
Oct. 26	Kenney Named Recipient of Annual Kinney Sugg Award	View Release
Oct. 25	OU Alumnus to Return to Campus Through T.W. Adams Lecture: Poverty Reduction in Cambodia to be Topic	View Release
Oct. 25	Justice and Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Discussion Set at OU	View Release
Oct. 19	Visiting Professor to Discuss Collective Memory Formation in East and West Germany	View Release
Oct. 19	Public Screening of Ushpizin (The Guests) to be Held at OU	View Release
Oct. 18	November 15 Deadline for $40,000 Prize at OU Fast Approaching	View Release
Oct. 17	Visiting Washington University Professor to Discuss the Concepts of Self at OU	View Release
Oct. 16	OU Professor Storms Capitol Hill	View Release
Oct. 16	FOCAS* Lecture Series Welcomes Sociology Professor to OU	View Release
Oct. 11	Visiting Professor at OU to Discuss Women Running for Political Office	View Release
Oct. 10	Prison and Punishment Over the Past 30 Years Topic of Discussion at OU	View Release
Oct. 5	21st Century Will Lead to New Era of Housing Development	View Release
Oct. 2	What is Kabbalah? Topic to be Discussed at Brown-Bag Lunch at OU	View Release
Sept. 21	Leading Historian of the Holocaust to Speak at OU on 'Rethinking the Holocaust'	View Release
Sept. 21	Acclaimed Author to Visit OU Through T.W. Adams Lecture Program	View Release
Sept. 19	OU Professors Awarded National Fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies	View Release
Sept. 18	Eyewitness Mistakes and Wrongful Conviction Discussion to Take Place at OU	View Release
Sept. 15	Call for Entries Announced for Award for Creative Process at OU	View Release
Sept. 14	OU Archaeologist Receives $167,000 NSF Grant	View Release
Sept. 7	Manufacturing the Modern Political Campaign to be Topic of Presidential Dream Course Lecture at OU	View Release
Sept. 7	OU’S Bioblitz 2006 to be Held at Quartz Mountain	View Release
Sept. 5	New Lebanon War to be Topic of Brown-bag Lunch at OU	View Release
August 30	Nazism and Hitler's Regime Subject of Brown-Bag Lunch at OU	View Release
August 28	Foreign Service Opportunities to be Topic of Brown-Bag Lunch at OU	View Release
August 16	Confucius Institute to be Established at OU	View Release
July 14	OU Professor Finds Way to Recover Trapped Oil	View Release
July 12	OU Chemistry Program Identified as One of the Top Three Examples of Best Practices in Its Field	View Release
June 16	OU Students to Compete in Chinese Speech Competition This July	View Release
April 27	Outstanding Arts and Sciences Staff Recognized at OU Awards Ceremony	View Release
April 20	OU Mathematics Professor Recipient of 2006 Irene Rothbaum Award	View Release
April 20	Visiting Chemistry Professor Wraps Up Karcher-Barton Seminars	View Release
April 13	Cultural History of Japan Topic for Dream Course Presentation	View Release
April 13	University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor to Visit OU	View Release
April 11	Professor Emeritus at Indiana University to Speak about Public Agenda	View Release
April 10	Two OU Philosophy Students Receive Departmental Scholarships	View Release
April 6	Chemistry of Large Molecules Topic for Next Karcher-Barton Discussion	View Release
April 4	Visiting OSU Professor to Discuss Topic of French Drama at OU	View Release
March 31	Ukraine's Cold War Topic for Global Forum Lecture at OU	View Release
March 28	Global Citizenship Not an Elitist Group, Possible for All	View Release
March 20	OU’s 11th Annual Symposium on American Indians to Focus on Tribal Governance and Leadership	View Release
March 20	Doctors Without Borders, Canada, Founder to Speak at OU	View Release
March 20	OU Brings Russian Literary Historian to Norman Campus	View Release
March 3	German-Jewish Popular Culture Topic of Discussion at OU	View Release
Feb. 28	Presidential Dream Course Speaker Visits OU to Discuss Scandal Coverage in News Media	View Release
Feb. 27	FOCAS* Lecture Series Welcomes Renowned African Dance Master to OU	View Release
Feb. 27	Discussions on Enzymes and Nanoscience to Take Place at OU	View Release
Feb. 22	Unethical Research on Human Subjects Topic for Discussion at OU	View Release
Feb. 21	Renowned Political Communication and Agenda-setting Theorist Speaks at OU	View Release
Feb. 15	OU College of Arts and Sciences Honors Two Distinguished Service Award Winners for 2006	View Release
Feb. 15	Sandefur Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from OU College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 15	OU College of Arts and Sciences Honors David Hall with Distinguished Alumni Award	View Release
Feb. 14	Counts Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from OU College of Arts and Sciences	View Release
Feb. 14	OU College of Arts and Sciences Honors Kidwell as Distinguished Alumna	View Release
Feb. 9	OU School of International and Area Studies Sponsors Symposium on Asia	View Release
Feb. 8	Wray Recipient of Teaching Award at OU	View Release
Feb. 8	Native American Tribal Survival Subject of Upcoming Lecture at OU	View Release
Feb. 3	Native Writer’s Circle of the Americas Names 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award	View Release
Feb. 2	Two Visiting Professors Continue Karcher-Barton Series at OU	View Release
Feb. 1	OU College of Arts and Sciences Announces Distinguished Alumni and Service Award Honorees for 2006	View Release
Jan. 27	OU Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Series Continues This Spring	View Release
Jan. 27	OU Communication Students Inducted in Academic Honor Society	View Release
Jan. 9	Astronomers Discover Powerful Wind in Low-Luminosity Quasar	View Release
Jan. 5	Sonic CEO to Address OU Arts and Sciences Alumni in Oklahoma City	View Release
Jan. 5	OU Football Radio Broadcaster Merv Johnson to Address OU Arts and Sciences Alumni in Tulsa	View Release

2005

Date	Press Release	View Release
Nov. 7	Culture, Race and Language in the Classroom Topic for Dream Course Lecture	View Release
Nov. 3	Karcher Barton Seminar Continues at OU	View Release
Nov. 2	Noted Poet Simon J. Ortiz to Visit OU	View Release
Nov. 1	OU Native American Studies Program Partners with Norman Community	View Release
Oct. 31	Guest Speaker Discusses the Physics of Football	View Release
Oct. 27	Fourth Annual Kinney-Sugg Award Winner Announced	View Release
Oct. 26	OU Hosts Oklahoma Sociological Association Annual Conference	View Release
Oct. 26	Guest Lecturers Coming to OU Through Dream Courses	View Release
Oct. 21	"Publications of the Oklahoma Biological Survey" Resumes after a 72-year Hiatus	View Release
Oct. 20	OU Receives $690,000 U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Grant	View Release
Oct. 18	United Nations Day Film Festival at OU Focuses on Child Mortality	View Release
Oct. 17	Harvard Professor Emeritus to Discuss the Future of Philosophy	View Release
Oct. 17	Four Additional Films Planned for OU French Film Festival	View Release
Oct. 14	OU-Tulsa Campus Hosts Seminar on Emotionally Intelligent School Districts	View Release
Oct. 13	University of California, Berkeley, Professor to Speak at OU	View Release
Oct. 7	French Film Festival Presents "Chorus"	View Release
Oct. 7	OU's Karcher Barton Seminar Series Begins Oct. 20	View Release
Sept. 29	Celebration of Einstein Continues at OU	View Release
Sept. 27	OU Receives $7.8 Million NSF Grant	View Release
Sept. 16	The Admirable Life and Ethics of Belief Topic of Romanell Professorship Lectures	View Release
Sept. 9	OU Events to Celebrate Albert Einstein	View Release
Sept. 1	OU Anthropology Professor Wins International Award	View Release
August 30	Fifth Annual BioBlitz Set for Sept. 9 and 10 in Tulsa	View Release
August 29	Applications for Coleman Fellowship Available to OU Juniors and Seniors	View Release
August 29	'Governance' Named Top Journal in Public Administration	View Release
August 4	Researchers at OU Release Tobacco Report	View Release
July 28	OU Spanish Professor Teaching in Peru	View Release
July 25	OU Hosts National Doctoral Honors Seminar	View Release
July 20	Damphousse Becomes Associate Dean	View Release
July 20	Genova Replaces Madland as OU's Chair of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics	View Release
July 20	New Fellowships Available to Oklahoma City and Tulsa District Teachers	View Release
June 24	2005-2006 Scholarship Deadline Approaching for Single Mothers	View Release
June 24	Oklahoma Biological Survey Launches OK WILDBIRDS Site.	View Release
June 22	Digging Up More than Dirt	View Release
June 17	College of Arts and Sciences Development and Outreach Staff Reorganized	View Release
June 13	Kade Prize Awarded to Professor of German at OU	View Release
June 2	American Indian Health Issues Class Offered at OU This Fall	View Release
June 2	College of Arts and Sciences Honors Student Award Winners	View Release
May 27	Native American Language Preservationist/Revivalist from OU Receives Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from William and Mary	View Release
May 19	OU Professor Named Honorary British Consul	View Release
May 19	65-year-old Student Receives Ph.D. from OU	View Release
May 19	Governor Declares May 17, Dr. Alex Kondonassis Day	View Release
May 12	University of Oklahoma Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar Award	View Release
May 4	OU Professor Elected President of Psychological Society	View Release
May 4	National Science Publication Features OU Professor	View Release
April 29	$40,000 Creativity in Motion Award Given to Alaskan Resident	View Release
April 18	Eastwood Panel Discussion to be Held at OU	View Release
April 18	OU Screens Documentary on Middle East Conflict	View Release
April 18	OU Professor Receives Award for Excellence in College Teaching	View Release
April 18	OU Philosophy Students Receive Departmental Award	View Release
April 13	Carnivale Star to Speak at OU	View Release
April 12	Attorney General to Discuss End-of-Life Issues at OU	View Release
April 8	Child Labor Topic of Documentary Film Screening at OU	View Release
April 8	Native American History Symposium to be held at OU	View Release
April 8	Blurred Identities in WWII to be Discussed in Dream Course at OU	View Release
April 7	OU Receives $300,000 to Fund Visiting History of Science Scholars	View Release
April 5	Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner to Visit OU	View Release
April 4	Native American Law Focus of Symposium	View Release
April 4	Noted Hispanic Scholar to Examine Works of Carlos Fuentes	View Release
March 29	Hollywood Producer to Visit OU	View Release
March 24	OU Chemist to Discuss Evolution of Traditional Chemists	View Release
March 23	Environmental Ethics Symposium to be held at OU	View Release
March 21	Contemporary Family Author to Lecture at OU	View Release
March 7	Unearthing Treasures from China's Past Topic of Discussion at OU	View Release
March 4	Women's History Month Events	View Release
February 25	Could the Founding Fathers Have Abolished Slavery?	View Release
February 22	OU's Women's Studies Announces Brown Bag Series, Women's History Month	View Release
February 22	America Through European Eyes	View Release
February 22	OU Professor Named American Library Association Honorary Member	View Release
February 21	Look up in the Sky! It's a Gliding Ant!	View Release
February 20	Harris Recognized for Distinguished Political Career	View Release
February 15	Year of Languages to be Celebrated at OU	View Release
February 14	Peter G. Pierce III Recognized for Service	View Release
February 14	Communication Conference to be Held at OU	View Release
February 11	Deputy Commissioner For Behavioral and Community Health Wanser Named Distinguished Alumnus	View Release
February 10	Thomas Loy Named Distinguished Alumni at OU	View Release
February 10	American Experience in Japan and Iraq to be Discussed	View Release
February 8	Edward N. Brandt Jr. to Receive Distinguished Alumni Award	View Release
February 7	Aaron Rodrigue to Deliver Yedida Kalfon Stillman Memorial Lecture	View Release
February 3	Bergey Receives NSF Grant	View Release
February 2	Author to Address War and Memory	View Release
January 31	Marriage in America Topic of Presentation at OU	View Release
January 13	OU Teaching Colloquium to be held Jan. 28	View Release