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A group of OSU political science students, led by professor and head of the Department of Political Science Dr. Jeanette Mendez, conducted a mock election at Sangre Ridge Elementary School in Stillwater on Monday, Nov. 7.  

Six Oklahoma State University students have landed highly-competitive, season-long paid internships with the Oklahoma City Thunder’s communications department for the 2016-17 season. 

An associate professor for the OSU Theatre Department has been elected to the first Board of Directors for the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship in Education (SAEE).

Oklahoma State University Professor of Art, Dr. Jennifer Borland, will present recent research into medieval folding almanacs as part of the Art History Roundtable Series at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 3, in Room 104 of the Bartlett Center. The presentation is open to the public.

The Niblack Research Scholars program at Oklahoma State University has opened the doors of cutting-edge research for undergraduates for 13 years. This year, 14 OSU undergraduate students are receiving $8,000 scholarships and the opportunity to conduct supervised research as 2016-17 Niblack Research Scholars. The annual program is funded by OSU alumnus John Niblack and his wife, Heidi Niblack.

“History gets a really bad rap by most people today,” Dr. Holly Karibo says with a wry smile as she sits in Café Libro in the Edmon Low Library. “It’s a shame that most people get talked out of it by the time they get to college.”

Two representatives from Oklahoma State University recently visited the White House to contribute to a workshop on the Obama Administration’s Promise Zones initiative, which provides federal support to local leaders in high poverty urban, rural, and tribal communities across the country. 

The OSU Museum of Art is pleased to introduce From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation on view from Sept. 27, 2016 through Jan. 28, 2017.

For Indigenous people, culture is often passed to a new generation through oral traditions and the retelling of tribal narratives, including tribal creation stories. It is here that we find the stories of women who made the world. In From the Belly of Our Being, 20 contemporary artists – and Native women – explore how the feminine forces in their tribal creation stories continue to inform the ideals of feminine behavior and gendered roles.

Oklahoma State University sociologist Riley Dunlap has been appointed the American Sociological Association’s lead representative to work with the Social Sciences Coordinating Committee (SSCC) of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to strengthen the use of social science perspectives in the federal government’s research on climate change.