CAS CONNECT 2022

OSU COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SC I ENCES 19 A relatively new center, OCEAN is already attracting top student talent from around the nation and the world. A core mission of OCEAN is to advance knowledge about human nature at the highest level of research and share that research with the public. OCEAN faculty have had their research featured in The New York Times , Rolling Stone , and at OSU’s own Research on Tap series. OCEAN has launched the highly successful regional conference FOSSIL (FlyOver State Scientists Integrating evoLution), which welcomed over 80 people, mostly graduate and undergraduate students, from around the nation in its inaugural year. And each semester OSU students are invited to an OCEAN Speaker Series event, where a leading evolutionary social scientist presents cutting-edge research. “There are a lot of questions about who academia is for,” Krems said. “But one of the things that I think you immediately see and can’t help but see when you look at our center and our grad students, they are 85% underrepresented minorities. They were also just the best candidates, and we could attract them because of the exciting work our team is doing. “OCEAN is changing the face of psychology and evolutionary social science in ways that just show that science is for everyone.” From left: Drs. Daniel Sznycer, Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Juliana French and Jaimie Arona Krems are members of the Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary ANalysis (OCEAN).