CAS CONNECT 2019

Reaching Out In August 2018, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders hosted a three- day Parkinson’s disease boot camp. More than 50 participants attended the free event, which was funded by a College of Arts and Sciences Community Engagement Grant. Feedback from the event was instrumental in creating partnerships between different OSU departments to build a free, community-based program for people with the disease and their family members. Stillwater CANe (Communication, Arts, Nutrition and Exercise) Project recently received funding from the Parkinson’s Foundation and American Speech-Language- Hearing Association. As part of the project, in partnership with the Stillwater Public Library, a single- day educational event was held in August 2019, with 59 attendees. Hall of Famers Dr. William “Bus” Jaco , the Grayce B. Kerr Regents professor of mathematics at OSU, is being inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame this year. Dr. Charles I. Abramson of the Department of Psychology is one of fewer than 20 people inducted into both the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. Goldwater Scholars Juniors Christopher Jones (geology) and Jeffrey Krall (microbiology/cell and molecular biology and biochemistry) both won a 2019 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. NAJA Fellows Arielle Farve and Miranda Stiles, both School of Media and Strategic Communications students, were among the Native American Journalists Association’s 11 Native American Journalism Fellows. Farve also received a $10,000 Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship. Tasty Reading Dr. Anna Zeide ’s first book won the James Beard Foundation Book Award. Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry topped the category of Reference, History and Scholarship. Ranger Challenge Champions The OSU Army ROTC cadet Ranger Challenge won the Task Force Plains competition in October at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, beating seven other schools from Oklahoma and Arkansas. The two-day competition included more than nine miles of ruck marching, marksmanship, grenade- throwing proficiency, weapon disassembly and assembly, military communication, tactical combat casualty care, land navigation, improvised explosive device identification, one-rope bridge assembly and navigation, and an obstacle course. The next weekend, OSU placed third in the bridge-level Ranger Challenge at Camp Bullis, Texas.