CAS CONNECT 2016

29 ALUMNI HONORS 2015 A&S Hall of Fame Ziva Branstetter Ziva Branstetter first became known for her unwaver- ing investigative journalism skills in journalism school at Oklahoma State University, where she earned a bach- elor’s degree in 1988. She and reporting partner Cary Aspinwall were named finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for their coverage on the botched execution of Clayton Lockett. Edwin Chappabitty Dr. Edwin Chappabity graduated from OSU in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in zoology. He was also a member of Scabbard and Blade for the OSU Army ROTC. He has gone on to demonstrate incredible support for Native American education, a record of distinguished service to his country and to the field of medicine and has brought distinction to OSU. Bradford Gray Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D., earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1964 and a master’s degree in sociology in 1966 from OSU. He was a member of the inaugural class of U.S. Office of Education fellows. He is also a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C., editor emeritus of leading health journal The Milbank Quarterly , and a senior adviser to the Harkness Fellowship Program and the Commonwealth Fund in New York. 2015 A&S Rising Star Kendall Gipson Kendall Gipson graduated from OSU with degrees in communication sciences and disorders, her bachelor’s in 2005 and her master’s in ’07. She has enjoyed work- ing as a speech-language pathologist for Green Country Rehabilitation in Tulsa for the past six years.