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A large group of Oklahoma State University political science students attracted media attention for their opinions on Governor Mary Fallin’s State of the State address.  Using “perception analyzer” technology, the students offered real-time analysis of the speech, giving media outlets immediate feedback on what resonated and what did not with college students.

Oklahoma State University Professor of Physics Dr. Aihua Xie has been elected to serve as chair of the Biological Physics Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). 

The Oklahoma State University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa presents physics expert Dr. Roger Blais on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Edmon Low Library Browsing Room.  His talk, titled The Two Cultures Revisited: Science and Humanities in the Core is free and open to the public. 

Fifteen Oklahoma State University students advanced to the 2015 National Trumpet Competition, to be held March 19-21 at Messiah College in Arlington, Va. 

A researcher from Oklahoma State University is part of a team working at one of the world’s most famous laboratories to discover subatomic particles that haven’t existed for billions of years. 

The College of Artsand Sciences announces a new program, available exclusively on OStateTV, titled "Coffee with the Dean." 

Two former Oklahoma State University graduate students played integral roles in last week’s Orion spacecraft flight test to ensure the safety of the crew. Razvan Gaza worked on the design of the Orion capsule while Ramona Gaza will be analyzing data from the test for NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group. An OSU flag was on board for Orion’s maiden voyage. 

The Oklahoma State University College of Arts & Sciences announced the creation of a new endowed faculty chair, the Dean and Carol Stringer Endowed Chair in American Literature.  The chair is made possible by a recent $1 million gift from Dean Stringer.  This is on top of a previous $1 million gift from Stringer in 2013 to create the Dean Stringer Endowed Chair in Political Science. 

Thirty-two first-year students have embarked on a year-long initiation into the world of authentic research as part of a larger project supported in part by a grant to Oklahoma State University from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Science Education Program.  The Life-Sciences Freshman Research Scholars (LSFRS) Program is overseen by faculty from the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Zoology.